What it costs

Same work. Two ways to price it.

You are not buying hours, design, or marketing. You are buying compressed time-to-working-product from someone who has shipped it across fintech, trading infrastructure and consumer apps. Which number sounds reasonable depends entirely on what you compare it to — so pick a frame.

BAD CTO HIRE
$200k+
Salary, equity and twelve months before anyone admits it isn't working.
WRONG AGENCY
6 months
Deliverables that look like progress and a codebase nobody can extend.
THE REBUILD
1 year
Starting again, with a competitor who started when you did already live.
Against this, a $45,000 Sprint is the cheap option on the page.
Three tiers

One of these fits. That is the whole conversation.

Prices are published so they are never negotiated downward — only scoped. Click a tier to see what you actually get.

STEP 01
THE FRONT DOOR

The Blueprint

$7,500fixed
ONE WEEK

A paid architecture engagement. I scope the product, design the stack, and hand you a technical roadmap plus a fixed quote for the build.

See what you get +
STEP 02
THE FLAGSHIP

The Sprint

from $45,000fixed scope
4–6 WEEKS

A working product, deployed, documented and handed off. Fixed scope, fixed price, agreed in the Blueprint before a line is written.

See what you get +
STEP 03

The Partner Retainer

$12–18kper month
3-MONTH MINIMUM

Fractional CTO and lead builder. The arrangement my friends have been using informally, written down and made predictable.

See what you get +
Two rules that matter more than the numbers
No price is ever invented in a room.

The tiers are the tiers. If a number needs to exist that isn't on this page, the Blueprint produces it as a document — after the work of scoping is done and paid for. Nobody quotes a build live across a table, including me.

The network is a channel, not a favour.

A standing 10% referral fee on every Sprint turns fifty people who already send work my way into an incentivised channel that costs nothing until it pays. If you have sent someone here, that applies to you retroactively.

Capacity

Two build slots per quarter. That is not scarcity theatre.

A Sprint is four to six weeks of one person's actual attention. The arithmetic below is the honest ceiling — not a growth target, and not an agency pretending to be scaled.

2
Build slots per quarter — the real ceiling
1
Sprint per month at full capacity
2
Concurrent retainers alongside it
~$85k
Monthly at that pace, solo, with no sale larger than the network already supports
The awkward questions
The front door

Start with a Blueprint. Get the quote as a document.

One week, $7,500, and you leave with an architecture, a build plan and a fixed price for the Sprint. If you decide not to build with me, the Blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone.

See the evidence first