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Standards
What "Production Ready" Should Mean to a Founder
Everyone agrees the product should be production ready. Almost nobody has written down what that means — which is why it is never quite finished.
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Notes for founders without a CTO
Engineering decisions, written for the person who signs off on them rather than the person who implements them. No code, no jargon — money, timelines and risk.
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Checklist
Seven Questions to Ask Your Developers This Week
No code, no jargon, one conversation. Seven questions that tell you more about your engineering risk than any status report will.
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Options
Fractional CTO, Agency, or Senior Hire: What Each One Actually Buys
Four options, four different problems solved. Most founders pick by price and discover six weeks later they bought the wrong thing.
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Hiring
How to Hire a CTO When You Cannot Evaluate One
You cannot assess the thing you are hiring for. That is a solvable problem — but not by asking better interview questions.
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Investors
What Investors Check Before They Wire a $500k Round
Funds leading $500k+ rounds increasingly read the code before they wire. Here is what they open first, and which findings cost you money rather than the deal.
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Decisions
Rewrite or Repair? How to Decide Without Reading a Line of Code
Every engineer who inherits someone else code wants to rewrite it. Sometimes they are right. Here is how to tell, using numbers you already have.
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Funding
Why Fast-Built Products Get Expensive Right After Funding
Nothing broke. The conditions changed. A product built by one person at speed works until a second person has to read it — and that is usually the week after the round closes.
