Tools

Tools for decisions you only make once or twice

Built from the same judgment I bring to a fractional CTO engagement, in a form you can use without talking to anyone.

  • Resume screening

    Screen a candidate against your situation, not a job title

    Designed for non-technical startup founders, making a critical engineering leadership hire. Answer five questions about your situation and company, upload a resume, and get an assessment of how the candidate fits your actual needs as a technical leader.

Why these exist

Most of the decisions that shape a startup's engineering are made once, under time pressure, by someone who has not made them before. These tools take one of those decisions and give you a structured read on it. If what you need is a conversation rather than a tool, the fractional CTO and executive coaching pages describe how that works.

Would a conversation be faster?

Thirty minutes, straight to the decision you're trying to make.

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