Fractional CTO & AI Product Advisory

I help companies build what's next with AI

20+ years building and scaling technology companies — from first commit to acquisition. Now I help founders and executives navigate AI strategy, product architecture, and technical leadership.

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CTO / technical co-founder across venture-backed and bootstrapped companies
20+
Years building products in fintech, CRE, marketplace, and enterprise SaaS
3→65
Scaled Verivest from founding team to 65 employees as President over 8 years
$13M
Raised at ShopIgniter (Madrona Venture Group), led through acquisition by Mixpo
About

Builder first, advisor second

I've spent my career at the intersection of product and engineering — building platforms that handle hundreds of millions of records, leading teams through hyper-growth, and making the hard architectural decisions that compound over years.

My work spans commercial real estate investment platforms, social commerce, enterprise workplace tools, and AI-powered property data systems. I've raised venture capital, bootstrapped to profitability, and navigated acquisitions from both sides of the table.

Today I focus on helping companies harness AI at the product and architecture level — not surface-level chatbot integrations, but agentic systems, intelligent data pipelines, and AI-native product strategy that creates durable competitive advantage.

I write production code, design system architecture, and sit in the room with your leadership team. I'm not the advisor who sends a slide deck and disappears.

Services

How I work with companies

01
Fractional CTO
Embedded technical leadership for early-stage and growth companies. I set engineering direction, hire and mentor your team, own architecture decisions, and bridge the gap between product vision and technical execution.
02
AI Product & Architecture Advisory
Strategic guidance on where and how AI creates real value in your product. From agentic system design to data pipeline architecture, I help you move beyond proofs of concept into production-grade AI that compounds.
03
Technical Due Diligence
Deep-dive architecture and engineering team assessments for PE firms, VCs, and acquirers. I evaluate code quality, scalability risks, technical debt, team capability, and AI readiness — delivering clear, actionable reports.
04
AI for Regulated Industries
Financial services firms, law firms, and professional services organizations sitting on sensitive documents need AI workflows that don't compromise confidentiality. I design and implement secure AI environments — from Claude enterprise deployments to custom tooling — so your team gets the productivity gains without the compliance risk.
05
Custom AI Implementation
Beyond strategy — I build the thing. Custom agentic systems, data pipelines, internal tools, and AI-powered workflows. Production code from someone who understands both the architecture and the business problem it needs to solve.
Selected Work

Things I've built

Verivest
President & Co-founder
CRE investment management platform. Scaled from 3 founders to 65 employees. End-to-end platform for fund managers handling investor onboarding, compliance, and portfolio management.
AbodeMine
Founding CTO
AI-powered property data platform processing 600M+ property records. Geospatial intelligence, parcel data at scale, and machine learning pipelines for real estate analytics.
ShopIgniter
Co-founder & CTO
Social commerce platform. Raised $13M from Madrona Venture Group. Built the product from first line of code through acquisition by Mixpo.
Lookout
Creator
Agentic competitive intelligence CLI built on the Claude API. Multi-agent system demonstrating real-world agentic architecture patterns. Built at the First Claude Hackathon of Portland.
Parcelus
Founder
Portland multifamily deal analysis agent. PostGIS, pgvector, Prefect, FastAPI, and Claude tool use — production AI architecture for real estate intelligence.
Fund Accounting Autopilot
Founder
GL-agnostic intelligence layer for fund administrators. Automated cash classification and reconciliation upstream of any general ledger system.
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Let's talk about what you're building

I take on a limited number of engagements to ensure depth over breadth. If you're navigating AI strategy, scaling a technical team, or evaluating an acquisition — let's start a conversation.