 Dathan Guiley · 30 yrs production · CTO ×3 · Claude Code daily since launch # From idea to working software. Experienced lean delivery — from micro-SaaS to macro-corporate. 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) Choosing your development partner shapes your outcome, ensures your delivery, dictates how long it takes, and decides how much of your own time it eats. The smart build outperforms the average build on cost and success — every time. Production software shipped at Amazon·Netflix·Yahoo·Overstock·Northrop Grumman·Porsche Digital·Taulia·RevyAutos ## Sound familiar? Most founders hire us because at least two of these are already happening. 01Outcome “I'll ship something nobody actually wants.” Builders ship what's asked, not what your customer needs. The team building has no product-market judgment because they've never lived the question — they're staffed against your spec, not your market. What we do instead The architect making product calls has shipped forty-plus products and seen which features actually move adoption. The "should we even build this" question gets answered early, by someone who's been on the other side of it. 02Delivery “They'll start strong and the wheels will come off.” Junior teams learn your domain on your dime. Open-source frameworks get vibe-coded into a brittle pile of plausibly-correct integrations. Nobody senior is signing for what survives production. What we do instead A mature SaaS foundation with auth, billing, background jobs, observability, and CI/CD already solved. Engineers writing under an architect who signs for the outcome — not a project manager who'll punt. 03Time “I won't see anything real for months.” Phased agency delivery (discovery → design → build → demo) stacks slides before commits. Months pass before working software meets a real user, and runway and market timing don't wait. What we do instead Working software in customers' hands from the start. The foundation eliminates the setup; the architect eliminates the wandering. Iteration drives priorities, not Gantt charts. 04Effort “I'll become the PM instead of the founder.” Vendors who need constant direction because they don't have the judgment to make calls. Daily standups disguising lack of accountability. You stop running the business and start running the project. What we do instead One architect makes the calls. The team executes. You get a weekly call and a working URL — your time goes back to customers and capital. 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. ## 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. What we’ve shipped [receipt slot — founder MVP launched, first customer signed] [receipt slot — PE-backed AI deal, diligence memo delivered] [receipt slot — production rescue, seam diagnosed and fixed] Three doors. Same seat. Pick the one that matches where you are. [Build it →](#build) [Rescue it →](#rescue) [Decide what to do →](#strategy) Door 1 · Build it ## Build it AI-native from the seams down. When the product has to work the first time. Clean architecture, calibrated against thirty years of pre-AI production patterns. A mature SaaS foundation applied from the start — solid software in your customers' hands, not just plausibly correct. [Talk now →](/start?utm_campaign=founder-sprint) [Founder Sprint →](/lp/founder-sprint) [Fast-MVP scope →](/lp/fast-mvp) Door 2 · Rescue it ## Already broken or degrading? Find the seam. Slow delivery. Run-cost devouring unit economics. Users churning. Each symptom maps to a seam — and the seam is what gets fixed. No rewrite unless the diagnosis demands it. [Find the seam →](/start?utm_campaign=rescue) [Architecture rescue →](/lp/rescue) [AI-gen code check →](/lp/vibe-code-check) [Code audit →](/lp/code-audit) Door 3 · Decide what to do ## Before you commit the build or the deal — get the judgment first. Diligence for PE-backed deals. Fractional CTO seat for teams between leads. The same operator profile, pointed at the decision instead of the code. [Scope the decision →](/start?utm_campaign=strategy) [PE-backed technical diligence →](/pe-diligence) [Fractional CTO →](/lp/fractional-cto) 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? ## Ready to find the seam? 30 minutes. Free. You leave with a roadmap whether we work together or not. [Book a free architecture review](/start) Got a question?