Fast. Friendly. Affordable.
I'm Cliff. I build software for small teams that need to ship — fast. v1 product builds, AI integration into things you've already shipped, fractional CTO seats for founders who need a grown-up in the room, and team workshops on what AI is actually good for. No agency markup. No lecture.
Every engagement is me — senior judgment, senior hands, no handoff to juniors. Pick the shape that fits what you need.
v1 product builds for founders who need to ship.
Working software in 6–10 weeks. Senior engineering, no agency layer. If you have an idea that's validated and funded — or bootstrapped and stubborn — I'll build you the first version. Small enough to stay on-scope. Fast enough to still matter when it lands.
Real AI in products you've already shipped.
Not a chatbot bolted onto your sidebar. Actual integration — RAG, agents, copilots, automation — built into the workflows your customers already use.
Senior judgment, one day a week.
The grown-up in the room for architectural decisions, hiring calls, and roadmap choices — without the $300K full-time salary.
Catch your team up on AI without the lecture.
One- to three-day workshops for small teams who know they're falling behind and don't know where to start. Applied, not theoretical. Your real work, with AI added.
I've been writing software for [X] years. The last few have been mostly AI work — building it, integrating it, and helping teams put it to work. I started this practice because the world doesn't need more agencies. It needs more senior people who'll just sit with you and figure out what you actually need.
I work with small teams: early-stage founders, small business owners, and other consultants who need a senior pair of hands. I build remote, and I'll fly out for the kickoff and for workshops. No dress code. No corporate cadence. No talking down to the people paying the bill.
Your stakeholders will tell you what they think they need. My job is to figure out what they actually need — and tell you the difference, even when it's smaller, cheaper, or faster than what you asked for.
Not slides. Not Figma. Not "architectural recommendations." Real code, in production, that does a real job for real users.
I'll tell you what's worth using, what's still bad, and why your chatbot idea probably isn't the right move. AI is a power tool. Powerful. Loud. Worth learning.
If a project should be smaller, cheaper, or not happen at all, that's what I'll tell you. Sometimes the best work I do for a client is talk them out of a feature.
A mix of v1 builds, AI integrations, and fractional engagements. Click any project for the full write-up.
Shipped v1 dashboard in 8 weeks. Real-time fleet tracking with AI-assisted dispatch routing. Replaced a spreadsheet + two overworked ops people.
Migrated from spreadsheets to a custom POS + inventory tool in 5 weeks. Saved ~10 hrs/week of manual ops across the business.
Integrated AI-assisted contract review into an existing product. RAG over client's 50K-doc corpus. Built with safety checks and hallucination guards.
Six-month fractional CTO engagement. Hired 4 engineers, set up eng ops and on-call, shipped two major platform features. Rolled off cleanly.
Three-day in-person workshop. Team left with six AI-assisted workflows deployed in their real tools. No theory decks.
Built an internal copilot that answers CS team questions against the codebase, docs, and three years of support history. Now handles first-response on 60% of tickets.
Twenty-minute intro call. No sales pitch. Tell me what you're trying to ship or figure out, and I'll tell you whether I can help — and if not, who can.
I reply within one business day. If I'm fully booked, I'll tell you straight instead of stringing you along.