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Fractional CTO and Agentic AI architect. I help founders and business leaders turn AI ambition into systems that actually reach production.
Most AI initiatives stall between demo and production. The missing piece is rarely more tools or another vendor. It's senior judgment.
Strategy, architecture, and delivery from one senior operator.
Production reality, from day one.
AI as part of a business, not a science project.
Senior technology leadership for companies building with AI.
Fractional CTO and Agentic AI architect. I help founders and business leaders turn AI ambition into systems that actually reach production.
Services
What I offer
I work with founders, SMB owners, and B2B leaders who are serious about AI but don’t yet have the senior technical partner they need.
Fractional CTO
Ongoing senior technical leadership for companies that need a CTO but aren’t ready to hire one full-time. Strategy, architecture, delivery, hiring, vendor selection, board-level communication.
Discuss →Agentic AI Strategy & Architecture
From opportunity mapping to production design for AI agent systems, RAG, and LLM-based products. Orchestration, tooling, guardrails, and observability.
Discuss →AI Readiness Assessment
A focused engagement to evaluate where AI can actually move the business, and what it will take to get there. Prioritized opportunities grounded in feasibility and impact.
Discuss →Production AI System Design
End-to-end architecture for AI systems that need to be reliable, observable, and safe in front of real users. Guardrails, tracing, and cost control built in from the start.
Discuss →Architecture Review & Modernization
Independent review of your current architecture and a clear plan to modernize without breaking what works. Straight talk about trade-offs, costs, and priorities.
Discuss →Technical Due Diligence
Fast, honest technical assessments for investors and leadership teams making high-stakes decisions. Architecture, team, delivery, security, and AI capabilities.
Discuss →Process
How I work
A calm, structured way of working that produces clarity fast and keeps momentum over time.
Discovery
We start with a direct conversation about what you’re trying to achieve, what’s in the way, and what success would actually look like. Just the questions that matter.
Assessment
I look at the current state honestly. Architecture, team, delivery, AI capabilities where relevant, and the business context around them. A shared, grounded understanding.
Prioritization
Together we decide what matters, what can wait, and what to stop doing altogether. Clear choices beat long lists.
Architecture
For the initiatives that make the cut, I design the technical approach — system architecture, agent design, data flows, integrations, guardrails, and the operational model. Production reality baked in from the beginning.
Execution guidance
I stay involved while the work happens. Not as an observer, but as someone your team can rely on for decisions, reviews, and the difficult conversations that come up in real delivery.
Review & iteration
We check what’s working, what isn’t, and what needs to change. I’d rather adjust course early than defend a plan that’s no longer serving you.
Use Cases
When clients bring me in
“We want to use AI, but we’re not sure where to start.”
You don’t need another workshop. You need a clear, prioritized view of where AI can actually move your business, and a plan that respects what you already have.
“We built an AI demo, but we don’t trust it in production.”
The prototype works in the right hands. In front of real users, it starts to drift. You need someone who has taken agentic systems from demo to production before.
“We need CTO-level guidance, but not a full-time hire.”
You’re not ready for a full-time CTO — or you don’t need one yet — but the decisions you’re making are starting to outpace your technical capacity.
“Our team is busy, but our architecture is getting messy.”
Everyone is shipping, nobody is stepping back. Technical debt is quietly compounding. You need an experienced outside perspective your team will respect.
“We need a practical AI roadmap.”
You’ve had enough of experiments that don’t connect to anything. You want a roadmap grounded in your business, your team, and your real constraints.
“We need someone who can translate between leadership and engineering.”
Your leadership team and your engineers aren’t speaking the same language. You need someone senior enough to be credible with both, and direct enough to close the loop.
About
The short version
I’m a senior technology leader based in Munich, working internationally with founders and business leaders who are building the next serious chapter of their company.
My background is twenty years of engineering, architecture, and delivery leadership across enterprise software and modern cloud platforms. My focus today is helping companies design and ship production-grade agentic AI systems — without the science projects.
Most people selling AI advice today are new to AI, new to senior leadership, or both. I spent two decades building and leading serious software — enterprise architecture, cloud platforms, modernization programs, delivery across product and engineering. I apply that same discipline to agentic AI.
FAQ
Common questions
Why not just hire a full-time CTO?
Sometimes that’s the right answer — and when it is, I’ll tell you. But many companies either don’t need a full-time CTO yet, can’t attract the level they actually need, or are facing a specific window where experienced judgment matters more than a permanent hire.
Do you work with startups only?
No. I work with founders, SMB owners, and established B2B product companies. The common thread isn’t company size — it’s that something important is at stake and the current technical setup isn’t enough to handle it.
Can you help if we’re early in our AI journey?
Yes, and that’s often the best time to bring me in. Early decisions are cheap to get right and expensive to reverse. A short engagement at the beginning tends to save far more than it costs.
Do you work hands-on, or only at strategy level?
Both. I can operate as a strategic advisor, a hands-on architect, or a Fractional CTO who spans both. Which mode is right depends on your situation, not on a standard package.
Can you help us choose vendors and tools?
Yes. Vendor and tool selection is one of the places where companies waste the most money, usually by committing too fast or by listening to the wrong people. I give you an independent, experienced view.
Can you work alongside an existing engineering team?
That’s the normal case. I treat your team as partners and focus on making them more effective, not on replacing them. Good teams usually welcome senior technical backup.
Do you help with AI governance and production readiness?
Yes. Governance, observability, evaluation, guardrails, and cost control are not afterthoughts — they’re part of the architecture from day one. If you’re putting AI in front of customers, these are non-negotiable.
What kind of companies are the best fit?
Companies where the leadership team is serious, the business is real, and the decisions being made actually matter. I’m less useful to people shopping for cheap hours or chasing AI for its own sake.
The technical decisions you make in the next six months will matter for years.
The goal of our first conversation is simple: understand what you’re trying to build, identify the real constraints, and figure out whether I’m the right person to help.
No pitch, no pressure. Just a clear conversation about your situation.