 Dathan Guiley · 30 yrs production · CTO ×3 · Claude Code daily since launch # From idea to working software. Experienced lean delivery — from micro‑SaaS to enterprise. The CTO‑who‑also‑codes you'd hire full‑time if you could — applying a mature SaaS foundation and thirty years of judgment from the start. You focus on customers; we focus on what survives. [Book a discovery call →](/start?utm_campaign=founder-sprint) The smart build outperforms the average build on cost and success — every time. Four doors. Same senior behind each. Pick the one that matches where you are. [Accelerate →](#accelerate) [Build it →](#build) [Troubleshoot →](#troubleshoot) [Analyze it →](#analysis) ## Door 1 · Accelerate ### Add deep experience to your team. Fractional engagements give projects of any size or budget access to experience they wouldn't normally have. Drops into your weekly cadence — code reviews, hiring, hard calls. Your team keeps shipping; you stop second‑guessing. [Get the senior in the room →](/start?utm_campaign=accelerate) [Fractional CTO →](/lp/fractional-cto) ## Door 2 · Build ### Build AI‑native, on foundations that scale. Over a decade building SaaS for startups and enterprise. We take on projects of any size, and every build starts on foundations we've shipped before — so AI‑generated code lands predictably instead of piling up integrations that only look correct. [Talk now →](/start?utm_campaign=founder-sprint) [Founder Sprint →](/lp/founder-sprint) [Fast‑MVP scope →](/lp/fast-mvp) ## Door 3 · Troubleshoot ### Slow projects, team friction, performance, and scaling issues. We diagnose what's actually wrong — performance bottlenecks, runaway run‑costs, team velocity, integration failures, projects that won't ship — before any code gets touched. No rewrite unless the diagnosis demands it. [Get the diagnosis →](/start?utm_campaign=troubleshoot) [Architecture review →](/lp/rescue) [AI‑gen code check →](/lp/vibe-code-check) [Code audit →](/lp/code-audit) ## Door 4 · Analysis ### Diligence, analysis, and roasts. Get a clear picture before investment, before development, or at any point in the product lifecycle. Technical diligence for PE‑backed deals. Architecture diagnosis on live systems. Decision planning for hard bets. [Scope the analysis →](/start?utm_campaign=analysis) [PE‑backed technical diligence →](/pe-diligence) ## What we've shipped ### Recent work. **Build · Scale** #### Revyautos Honda‑backed automotive marketplace, zero to scaled production. - 10,000 listings shipped - Peak team: 12 engineers, 20 total - CTO end‑to‑end · Q1 2024 → Q4 2025 [Read the case](/work/revyautos) **Build · Speed · Founder judgment** #### AgentSite "AEO is the new SEO." Built from a gap across client work. - Idea → first paying customer in 4 weeks - Multi‑tenant SaaS in production - Dogfooded on wilde.agency [Read the case](/work/agentsite) #### Weaverley “He doesn’t hand me theory, he hands me the next correct decision.” — David, Weaverley - Fractional CTO at a pre‑launch product - PR + mainline workflow shift in week one - Stalled 2.5‑week fix → shipped same week [Read the case](/work/weaverley) [See all work →](/work) Production software shipped at Amazon·Netflix·Yahoo·Overstock·Northrop Grumman·Porsche Digital·Taulia·RevyAutos ## Why us, specifically ### Architect at the top 30 years deciding what survives production. Strategy, PMF, technology bets, and the “should we even build this” call — made by the person who's done it forty times, not delegated to a junior. ### Hands‑on at the frontier Claude Code daily since it launched. Agentic patterns in production, not on slides. The person making the architecture call is also writing the code — so the pattern survives contact with reality. ### A team behind the architect Engineers, designers, CMO. The diagnosis ships — it doesn't just get written. The bench scales with the engagement, so the fix lands before the cost crystallizes. ## How we deliver this from the start ### 126 production‑proven patterns — applied the moment we start. Auth. Billing. Background jobs. Observability. CI/CD. Agentic patterns. We’ve compounded thirty years of production experience into a foundation we apply from the start — every pattern a landmine you don’t have to step on. Your team learns from real customers, not from a blank repo. Public frameworks vibe‑coding builds off of are in a completely different class. ### Do you recognize any of these problems? - **Outcome** – “I'll ship something nobody actually wants.” - **Delivery** – “They'll start strong and the wheels will come off.” - **Time** – “I won't see anything real for months.” - **Effort** – “I'll become the PM instead of the founder.” ## Pricing posture $2K to $200K. Fixed scope. No hourly. Whichever shape fits your situation, the architecture review is free. The technology industry is changing. AI makes development fast — but it can generate mountains of slop in a day. Pricing has to change too. We price against outcomes and budget, not hours. The first step is a discovery call: you leave with a few options for how far we can take you at the budget you have. ## Zero risk to start. Every engagement starts with diagnosis, not commitment. - Free 30‑minute architecture review — you leave with a roadmap whether we work together or not - First‑milestone satisfaction gate — full refund if you're not confident - 90‑day post‑launch quality guarantee - Complete codebase handoff — no vendor lock‑in - Advisory fee credited 100 % if you upgrade to full engagement [Book your free architecture review →](/start) [Ongoing technical partnership →](/retainer) [What would this cost? →](/lp/cost-calculator) [Free AI Readiness Scorecard →](/scorecard) [Just want to talk? →](/contact) ## Common questions - What does the free architecture review include? - Already in production and it's breaking. What's the path? - Do you bring a team, or is it just you? - How is this different from another senior consultant? - What does pricing look like? ## Not sure which door? Start with the free review. 30 minutes. Free. You leave with a roadmap whether we work together or not. 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