Consulting Services

Strategic guidance for companies building with AI and communications technology.

Service Tiers

Retainer

Strategic AI Advisory

$25K–35K/month

Ongoing strategic partnership for AI integration. Weekly sessions, async access, architecture reviews, and hands-on guidance for your team.

  • –AI roadmap development
  • –Vendor and model selection
  • –Team training and enablement
  • –Architecture reviews
Hourly

Technical Due Diligence

$1,000/hour

Deep technical assessment for investors and acquirers. Evaluate engineering teams, architecture decisions, AI/ML implementations, and scalability.

  • –Code and architecture review
  • –Team capability assessment
  • –Technical risk identification
  • –Written report with findings
Retainer

Fractional CTO

$15K–25K/month

Executive-level technical leadership for early-stage companies. Strategy, hiring, architecture, and hands-on guidance without full-time overhead.

  • –Technical strategy and vision
  • –Hiring and team building
  • –Investor and board communication
  • –Vendor and partnership evaluation
Hourly

Implementation Consulting

$700–850/hour

Hands-on technical guidance for specific projects. Ideal for teams that need expert input on architecture, implementation, or code review.

  • –LLM/RAG implementation
  • –API design and development
  • –Performance optimization
  • –Code review and refactoring

What I Help With

20+ years of experience building developer platforms that scale. From founding team at SendGrid through 15 years at Twilio.

AI/LLM Integration Strategy

Move from POC to production with confidence. Model selection, RAG architectures, and agent systems that actually work.

Communications Platform Architecture

Email, SMS, voice at scale. I built systems processing billions of messages monthly at SendGrid and Twilio.

Developer Experience & Documentation

APIs developers love to use. Documentation that reduces support burden and accelerates adoption.

Go-to-Market for Developer Products

Developer marketing, community building, and product-led growth strategies that convert.

Technical Team Building

Hiring, org design, and engineering culture. Build teams that ship quality software consistently.


Ideal Clients

Startups

Early-stage companies integrating AI into their products. Need strategic guidance without full-time executive overhead.

Venture Capital

VCs and PE firms doing technical due diligence on AI-focused investments or communications technology deals.

Communications Companies

Companies building email, SMS, or voice platforms. Need someone who's done it at massive scale.

Growing Teams

Engineering teams that need fractional technical leadership to scale from 5 to 50 engineers.


Start a Conversation

I respond to every inquiry personally. Let me know what you're working on and how I might help. No obligation, no pressure.

What to Expect

  1. 1. Initial Call (30 min, free)

    We discuss your situation and determine fit.

  2. 2. Scoping & Proposal

    I outline the engagement structure and deliverables.

  3. 3. Kick-off

    We begin working together, typically within 1–2 weeks.