Five ways to work together, each scoped and priced up front.
Before you close, you need to know what you're buying: the state of the platform, the size of the technical debt, whether the team can execute the plan, and what integration will actually cost. I've been on the inside of an acquisition where the technical reality didn't match the thesis. I know what to look for and how to say it plainly to a deal team.
Typical engagement: 2–4 weeks. $25,000–$75,000.
Senior technical leadership without a permanent hire — for portfolio companies mid-modernization, teams between CTOs, or founders who need someone accountable for architecture, hiring, and sequencing. I've done this formally as an Interim IT Director, and informally for two years as the senior technical voice at a company that had no CTO in the seat.
Typical engagement: $12,000–$20,000 per month, 20–40 hours.
Getting AI into production in a regulated company is not a model problem. It's identity, isolation, audit, approval, and operational control. I help teams choose where AI actually belongs in the workflow, then design the controls that let the business use it without losing traceability.
Typical engagement: 6–10 weeks. $30,000–$60,000.
A fixed-scope read on what to keep, what to rebuild, what to retire, and in what order, sequenced so the business can absorb it. You get a roadmap with costs, risks, and dependencies, not a slide deck.
Typical engagement: 2–4 weeks. $15,000–$30,000.
You shipped fast with coding agents and now nobody can safely change the result. I'll get it back to a state your team can own: structure, tests, boundaries, and the documentation that should have been written along the way.
Typical engagement: 4–6 weeks. $15,000–$25,000.