Pick
One agent doing one real job for your team, start to finish. You pick the job. Price requests are a common first.
Who this is for
Five to fifty people, and every quote is a one-off.
Design studios, trade showrooms, and design-led online shops. You sell furniture, lighting, ceramics, art, or jewelry. Some is made to order, some is price on request, and designers buy at trade pricing. The work between "I'm interested" and "here is your quote" runs on email, spreadsheets, and whoever remembers.
Run an interior design firm? I built TheEdit, software for interior design studios, for you.
What you get in the first 30 days
One job, done for real.
Approve
A customer asks for a price on your site. The request shows up where your team already works. You click approve, and the quote goes out as a PDF by email. Nothing reaches a customer until a person says yes.
Map
You also get a written map of where quotes, orders, and trade applications get stuck, and what I would fix next.
Proof
This runs in production today.
I do this now for a design-led e-commerce studio on Shopify. Their rarest pieces are price on request, with stock held before a quote goes out. Every price request lands in the team's chat, where they approve, edit, or decline it. Designers build a quote basket, and each accepted quote becomes a draft order in their store at trade pricing. When a trade member applies a second time, the system recognizes them and resends their access. Artists submit new work through a private link. All of it runs in production.
How it works
Part-time CTO, paid work first.
Start
The first two weeks produce the written map and one small fix, so you see real work first.
Build
I build on the tools you already use. Nothing new unless the job needs it. I run my own company on the same agents every day.
Keep
Billed monthly with a written scope. Cancel with 30 days notice, and the code and the accounts stay yours.
Prices
One starting price.
Every engagement has a written scope. You own the code and the accounts from the first day.
- Fractional CTO
- from $2,500 a month. It starts with two weeks: the written map and one small fix.
Billed at the start of each month, written scope, cancel with 30 days notice.
Start here
Name the job your team dreads.
Message me with the one job your team dreads most. I will tell you whether it fits, and what I would need from you to run it.
Straight answers
Before you reach out
Do you replace my developer?
No. I work with the people you already have. I set the technical direction and build the agents, and your developer keeps the code they already own.
What tools do you build on?
Whatever you already run: your store, your team chat, your spreadsheets, your email. I add something new only when the job needs it, and I tell you what it costs first.
Who owns what you build?
You do. The code and the accounts are yours, in your repositories and under your logins.
Do you work on site?
In the Bay Area, yes. Everywhere else it is remote.
Is my customer data used to train anything?
No. Your customer data stays in the systems you own, and I do not use it to train models.