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Advise

Strategic technical guidance for founders and senior teams.

Architecture, security, AI strategy, and scaling from someone who has built and launched products from pre-seed to growth stage. Strategy for reality, not fantasy scale: preparing for chaos on your best day.

Advice from an engineer who has also run the business side: fundraising, financial models, and go-to-market at a VC-backed startup, so the technical call is weighed against runway and GTM.

AI & LLM Strategy

Where AI fits, RAG, verification, evals

Architecture for real scale

Ledgers, audit logs, multi-tenant isolation

Technical due diligence

Honest codebase and architecture assessment

Security audits & hardening

Adversarial review, auth, defense-in-depth

Services

Advisory services.

Strategic guidance tailored to your stage. Past security reviews have surfaced real issues (account takeover, privilege escalation, rate-limiting gaps) with fixes that hold up.

High Impact

AI & LLM Strategy

Clear thinking on where AI actually helps and where it does not. From opportunity identification to implementation, with the verification and guardrails that keep it trustworthy.

AI opportunity audit
RAG vs naive retrieval
Verification and human-in-the-loop
On-prem and self-hosted options
Measuring AI quality with evals

Ideal for:

Companies exploring AIAI-first startupsEnterprise innovation
Fractional CTO

Technical Strategy

CTO-level technical direction without a full-time hire. Direct guidance to your team on architecture, stack choices, and execution, weighed against runway and go-to-market.

Architecture reviews
Tech stack guidance
Code rescue assessment
Execution coaching and team mentoring

Ideal for:

Non-technical foundersEarly-stage startupsScaling companies
Code Audit

Technical Due Diligence

A senior read on a codebase and team before you invest, acquire, or commit. Architecture, security, and scalability, with a clear list of what to fix before you raise or scale. Runs as a fixed-scope audit, usually 1 to 2 weeks.

Codebase and architecture audit
Security review and hardening
Scalability and risk review
What to fix before raising or scaling

Ideal for:

Investors and acquirersFounders pre-raiseTeams inheriting code
Architecture review

The smallest way to start. From €2k.

A fixed-scope review of your codebase and architecture, usually 1 to 2 weeks. I find the risk early, then give you exactly what to fix, how to fix it, and in what order, plus a target architecture to build toward. It stands on its own, and it is often how a build or a rescue begins.

Adversarial by method

I go looking for the risk you cannot see from the inside: auth and access holes, data-isolation gaps, and the paths that break under load or concurrency.

Evidence, not opinions

Severity-ranked findings you can reproduce yourself, explained in plain terms for the founder and in technical detail for the dev.

A fix plan, not a teardown

For each finding: what to fix, how to fix it, and how much it matters, in priority order, plus a target architecture. The genuinely strong parts get verified too.

Process

How advisory works.

Weekly calls, async, or project-based, whatever fits.

01

Discovery

30-min call to understand your challenges and goals.

02

Engagement

Choose weekly calls, async support, or project-based.

03

Value

Actionable guidance you can implement immediately.

Advisory

Bring the hard decision to a call.

Get in touch to discuss your situation.