The 2-day diagnostic

Two days inside your organization. I talk to your team, map your value stream, review your architecture, observe your process, and find the binding constraint that blocks the most progress. You get:

• A real problem diagnosis, not a symptom list
• Root cause analysis
• A high-level plan for addressing it
• A clear recommendation on whether ongoing engagement would help, and what it would look like

Investment: $3,000

Duration: 2 days

Commitment: None. The diagnostic earns the next conversation.

Ongoing engagement

If the diagnostic reveals work worth doing together, I continue as a fractional member of your leadership team. I provide coaching and judgment, and even some hands-on coding. The engagement focuses wherever the constraint demands attention:

• Architecture: decisions that determine whether you scale or stall
• AI strategy: moving from pilot to production, selecting tooling, building team capability
• Delivery: why the team ships but doesn’t deliver, and how to fix it
• Team: hiring, org design, closing expertise gaps via my network
• Alignment: connecting technology strategy to product roadmap and business goals
• Mentorship: advice and guidance for your current technical leaders
• Coaching: developing your engineering managers into effective leaders
• Diligence: technical assessment for investors, acquirers, or boards

There are two modes of engagement depending on depth and pace.

Fractional CTO

When you need to fill a CTO role without the full cost. Strong operational involvement. I work directly with your C-Suite, VP Engineering, and technical leadership 1-2 days per week to drive execution on the plan.

Typical engagement: 6-18 months

Advisor

When you want to tune up your existing technology leadership. Strategic guidance at a lighter cadence. I serve as a sounding board and advisor for your technical leadership on architecture decisions, vendor selection, AI adoption, and scaling strategy.

Typical engagement: 3-12 months

Who this is for

• Series A+ companies or $10M+ revenue
• Fintech, data platforms, high-throughput transactional systems, AI-intensive products
• CEOs and founders who feel the engineering organization isn’t keeping pace with the business
• Companies that need AI strategy grounded in execution, not slide decks

Who this is not for

• Pre-revenue startups that need a first engineer
• Companies looking for someone to take tickets and write code
• Organizations that want validation, not diagnosis
• Anyone not open to discovering real problems

Why me?

Network: I founded and run the Austin CTO Club, with 220+ members from startups to Fortune 10 companies. Every month I gain insight into what technology leaders are struggling with and how they resolve their problems. Engaging me plugs you into that network.

Breadth: My background covers building large-scale email marketing systems, optimizing predictive models, rescuing failing reservation systems, experimental database implementations, regulated fintech platforms, and executive coaching.

Urgency: With experience as a founder and startup CTO, I ship good enough over perfect, deliver fast, and iterate from there.

Rigor: My training as a Mathematics PhD at Berkeley lets me quickly recognize the structure of your problems and identify the essential elements. This analytical discipline translates into robust system architectures that serve your business.

Results: The results are quantified:

• 10x traffic capacity at Tablet Hotels.
• 50x modeling speed at Proclivity.
• 5x contribution rate for 1700 developers at Bloomberg.
• $500M+ AUM at Vertalo.

Get started

Email info@superscript.com. Tell me what’s stuck. If it sounds like a fit, we’ll schedule the diagnostic.