Fractional CTO · AI Systems & Software
I work out where AI actually fits, then build it and keep it running. I've spent twenty-five years building products from zero to one as a founding engineer, first technical hire and fractional CTO.
Founders · Small businesses · Fintech · Marketplaces · AI products
The gap I close
Today's tools make a working prototype easy. They don't make it secure or reliable at scale once real users and real money arrive. That's where projects fail, and it's the part I've spent decades doing.
AI-generated code often ships with serious security holes. I find them before your users or an attacker do.
Data models, race conditions and architecture choices that work in a demo get expensive later. I catch them while they're cheap to fix.
Often the best call is deciding what not to build. I bring senior product and technical judgment so you spend your runway on what matters.
How we work together
Most founders start with a readiness check to get the lay of the land, then move into a build or an ongoing partnership. No long contracts, and the scope and price are clear up front.
For founders who've built with AI or no-code and want a quick, honest read before real users arrive.
A product, an internal system or an automation, built properly the first time so it's secure and ready to grow.
The senior technical partner you bring in before you hire a CTO. You get experienced judgment when you need it, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Selected work
Built the fintech MVP in six weeks, then scaled the platform and the engineering team behind it. The work supported $16.4M in venture funding.
Built the entire initial product myself as the first technical hire: a multi-tenant platform for complex product data. The company went on to a TSXV public listing.
Built a white-label, AI-powered itinerary platform for travel operators as technical co-founder, and now guide its technical direction as fractional CTO.
Answers the calls a small business misses, has a real conversation with the caller and sends the owner a summary. Starting with radon mitigation companies. callsidekick.app
What people say
Jeremy is preternaturally gifted at what he does, which is to synthesize business requirements and implement them in an active system, in real time. It's spooky, and it's a massive business advantage.
I can always count on you to come up with a clever solution to a challenge. You're able to quickly draw on your knowledge and propose solutions that aren't obvious to others.
A swiss-army knife. Seems to always be a valuable contributor, no matter what the initiative is.
Jeremy sees company change in multiple lenses, he separates changes based on transformational and incremental with consideration to available resources, timing, and setting up teams for success as we scale.
About
For 25 years I've built SaaS products from the ground up as a founding engineer, a first technical hire and a technical co-founder. I've built the thing, scaled it, and been the one on the hook when real users depend on it.
I can set product direction and write the code that delivers it: 25 years of PHP, the last decade and more in Laravel, plus multi-tenant architecture, real-time systems and AI/RAG. Founders bring me in when the hard problems sit between what they want the product to do and what the technology can support, and I tell them the truth about both.
Start a conversation
Whether you're stuck on something half-built or deciding what to build at all, a short call will tell us both whether I can help. No pitch, just a straight read on where you stand.