Fractional AI / CTO Advisory
AI strategy and execution for companies betting on what comes next.
I serve health-tech and wellness operators, plus any company adopting, examining, building with, or investing in AI. Quiet confidence over hype. Shipped work over slideware.
Who I work with
Operators, executives, and investors moving on AI.
Health-tech and wellness operators
EMR-aware, HIPAA-conscious work across AWS and HubSpot stacks. Translate clinical and operational workflows into shipped AI features.
Executives adopting AI internally
CEOs and CTOs who need a calm, technical partner to examine vendors, pilots, and the build versus buy calls without the hype.
Investors evaluating AI bets
Diligence on AI companies and infrastructure plays. Architecture, moat, cost curve, and team realism, in plain language.
What you get
The work of a fractional AI/CTO.
Six places I add the most leverage. Not every engagement touches all six. Most touch three.
AI roadmap and prioritization
From scattered ideas to a sequenced plan tied to revenue, risk, and the team you actually have.
Architecture and stack review
Data, model, vendor, latency, and cost. RAG, agents, and workflow automation evaluated against your real constraints.
Pilot to production
Move beyond demos. Reliability, evaluation, observability, and the unglamorous plumbing that makes AI ship.
Team enablement and hiring
Org design for AI. What to hire, what to upskill, what to outsource. Coaching for engineering leaders.
Investment diligence
Technical and operational diligence on AI companies. Honest reads on defensibility and execution risk.
Governance, security, compliance
AI policy, data handling, model risk, and audit posture that holds up in regulated and enterprise contexts.
How engagements work
Start small. Scale to fit.
- 01
Discovery call
A focused conversation. Where you are, where you want to be, and whether this is the right fit.
- 02
Scoped diagnostic
A short engagement to map the terrain. Architecture, team, vendors, risks, and the highest-leverage moves.
- 03
Ongoing advisory or sprint
Fractional retainer for continuous leadership, or a fixed-scope sprint to ship a specific outcome.
Background
A technologist, athlete, and leader.
CTO experience in health-tech infrastructure. Air Force veteran. Elite OCR athlete. Author of the Seven Gates framework for leadership maturation. The same discipline that builds platforms builds people.
- Technology executive leadership
- Health-tech infrastructure
- AI architecture and governance
- Air Force veteran
- Seven Gates leadership framework
Ready to move on AI with a steady hand?
One conversation. No deck required. We will know quickly whether there is a fit.