Technical co-founder for hire

Senior technical judgment for founders building with AI.

For funded founderswithout a CTO

You’ve raised, or you’re about to. You need someone experienced making the technical calls so you can ship faster.

Funded
You’ve raised, and the product has outgrown ad hoc technical leadership.
Building
You need someone in the codebase, not just in the strategy deck.
Recovering
Burned by a dev shop, a flighty freelancer, or startup staffing chaos.

AI makes it cheap and easy to build fast. It also makes it easier than ever to build junk, and course-correcting can be expensive.

You probably don’t need more developers. You need a plan you can believe in, and someone with the experience to build your tech and team around it.

Compare

A full-time CTO
The right move when you’re ready. However it’s a six-figure commitment that you likely don’t need to make yet.
An agency or a dev shop
A few are great. Most bill by the hour, so the incentive is to build more, not to build right. What you get is often a roll of the dice.
DIY with AI
You’ll get to a prototype fast. But you’ll often end up with brittle code that nobody understands, including you.

“He speaks business, design and engineering seamlessly, which made it easy for me, as a non-developer, to make informed choices.”
Amy BaryshnikFounder & President, Estate Kit
“If I were to build a technical team from scratch, Martin would be one of the first people I call.”
Hannah BeckettFractional COO, Peerly
“I would jump at the chance to have Martin on my team, every single time.”
Stacey KlineCo-Founder, Peerly
“Martin brings the judgment you need before you write the code. He helps you build the right thing, not just build it faster.”
Gev MarotzGev Design
“Martin was a game changer for us.”
Nina CoutinhoCo-Founder, From Here

“He speaks business, design and engineering seamlessly, which made it easy for me, as a non-developer, to make informed choices.”
Amy BaryshnikFounder & President, Estate Kit
“If I were to build a technical team from scratch, Martin would be one of the first people I call.”
Hannah BeckettFractional COO, Peerly
“I would jump at the chance to have Martin on my team, every single time.”
Stacey KlineCo-Founder, Peerly
“Martin brings the judgment you need before you write the code. He helps you build the right thing, not just build it faster.”
Gev MarotzGev Design
“Martin was a game changer for us.”
Nina CoutinhoCo-Founder, From Here

About

I work with founders when the product is moving but the path isn’t clear.

I get close to the product, people and code, and build to find out what’s true.

No roadmap handoff. No disappearing after the strategy deck. I stay in the work.

A few of the technical problems I’ve helped founders untangle, from the earliest decisions to platforms running in production.

Pricing

$7,500–10,000two weeks: The diagnostic, whether you have a product or an idea.
$15,000–25,000a month: Building or prototyping after it.
No lock-inmonth to month: You can stop any month.