If your users aren't activating, retention is sliding, or you're shipping hard with no growth to show for it — the problem isn't effort. It's direction. I work with founders as the CTO/operator they don't have yet, to untangle what's broken and point the team at what actually moves the needle.
If more than one sounds familiar, you're not alone — and none of them are unfixable.
Signups come in, but people never hit that first meaningful moment. The funnel leaks silently before anyone sees value.
Week-1 looks okay, week-2 falls off a cliff. You're acquiring users faster than you're keeping them, and it's getting expensive.
The team is shipping every week. The metrics aren't moving. Something is off between what you're building and what users actually need.
Every product call, every roadmap decision, every tech debate goes through you. You're exhausted and the team is stalled waiting for answers.
Productized so you know exactly what you get, how long it takes, and what it costs.
Find what's broken. Fast.
A ranked diagnosis of what's leaking growth in your product — activation, retention, onboarding, or positioning — with a clear fix list you can ship this quarter.
Fix direction and execution together.
A focused 3-week engagement where I work with you to fix the single biggest thing holding the product back — scope, positioning, onboarding, or roadmap — and hand back a team shipping with confidence.
Ongoing operator in your corner.
Monthly retainer where I plug in as your outside CTO — product strategy, hiring decisions, architecture calls, roadmap reviews, and the uncomfortable truths most advisors won't say.
Three steps. No exploratory calls to nowhere.
Fill out a short intake — your product, stage, and the single thing that's slowing you down most right now.
I review your context within 48 hours, send back a short Loom with my initial read, and confirm the right engagement to start with.
We get to work — audit, sprint, or CTO Mode. Every engagement ends with something concrete you can point at and ship.
Twelve years as an operator, engineer, and CTO — across 0→1 launches, growth-stage rebuilds, and the messy middle where most products get stuck. Everything I recommend is something I've shipped, broken, or watched break. No frameworks for the sake of frameworks.
One short application. A 48-hour turnaround. A clear next step — not a sales call.