Founders and business owners
Technical Advisor
Someone who knows your business and your systems, and helps you make the right technical decisions every week.
Who this is for
- Software is at the centre of your business, and you have no senior technical partner.
- You manage developers or an agency and can't check what they tell you.
- Technical decisions come up every week, not once a year.
- You want one person who already knows your business when a problem comes up.
Who this isn't for
- You need someone to write the code. This is advice and guidance; building can be quoted separately.
- You have one decision to make. A single session costs much less.
- You need someone on call around the clock. Urgent help is included, but this isn't a 24/7 support contract.
How it works
For founders and business owners who run on software but have no senior technical person on their side. In the first month I learn your business, review your systems and the way your team works, and give you a written assessment of what's working, what's risky, and what to fix first. From the second month, we meet every week, you message me between calls, and I help you and your team make the right decisions. Minimum 3 months, because real results take more than one.
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You apply
A short form about your business, your systems, who builds them, and the decisions in front of you. Then a free 20-minute call to make sure this is the right fit. I reply within 2 business days.
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Month one: I learn your business
We start with a working session on your goals and challenges. Then I review your systems, your code, and how your team works, and check them against good practice. You get a written Technical Assessment: what's working, what's risky, and what to fix first.
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From month two: weekly support
A 60-minute call every week, messages between calls, and reviews of your team's plans, proposals and technical decisions. Every decision that matters gets written down.
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When something urgent happens
Message me. I'll join a call the same day when I can, and within 1 business day at the latest. One urgent call a month is included.
What you get
- A written Technical Assessment of your systems and team in the first month
- A 60-minute call every week from the second month
- Messages between calls, answered within 1 business day
- One urgent call a month for critical problems
- Written notes for every important decision
What happens next
- You apply a short form about your business
- Within 2 business days my reply, and a free 20-minute fit call
- Month one I learn your business and deliver the written assessment
- From month two weekly calls, messages, and urgent help when needed
I help with
- Checking what your developers or agency propose
- Hiring technical people, and judging their work
- Deciding what to build next, and what can wait
- Choosing tools, platforms and suppliers as you grow
- Security and server problems, before they turn into outages
- Reading quotes, contracts and requests for extra work
- Keeping your monthly technology costs under control
- AI Agent and automation ideas that are actually worth doing
Why it's worth it
A full-time senior technical hire costs many times this. What you get here is that experience on your side every week, from someone who already knows your business.
Before we start
When you apply, describe your business in a few lines, your systems as they are today, who builds them, and the two or three decisions in front of you. That's enough for me to tell you honestly whether this is the right fit.
Questions
Why is the minimum 3 months?
The first month is spent learning your business. The real value shows in months two and three, once I know your systems and your team.
Can I sign up for 6 or 12 months?
Yes. 6- and 12-month terms are available, paid in advance. Your price stays fixed for the whole term.
How is it paid?
$1,500 a month, paid for each 3-month period in advance. After the first 3 months, you can continue or stop with 30 days' notice.
What if we don't use all the weekly calls one month?
They don't carry over. You're paying for my time, attention and knowledge of your business, not a bank of hours.
Can you also write the code?
This service is advice and guidance. If you need something built, I can quote it separately.
Why only 3 clients at a time?
Because knowing each business well is the whole point. A fourth client would make the service worse for all of them.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes, before we start.
If this sounds like you, apply.
Someone who knows your business and your systems, and helps you make the right technical decisions every week.
$1,500 a month, 3-month minimum, paid quarterly in advance. 6- and 12-month terms available. 3 clients at a time, by application.