Step one
Conversation
A 30-minute call to understand your situation and whether I'm the right fit. Free, and not a sales call: no deck, no follow-up sequence. If I'm not the right person, I'll say so.
Engagements
How to work
with me.
The short version: a paid Diagnostic to point the operator's read at your product, then the engagement that fits, a fixed-scope Sprint, a larger Build, or fractional Lead. Concrete formats, named tiers, and prices you can see before the first call.
The path
Three steps, no mystery.
Step two
The Diagnostic
One to two weeks. I turn the operator's read on your product: architecture, codebase, team, delivery risk. You leave with a prioritised findings memo and a roadmap. From €6,000.
Step three
Engagement
If it makes sense, the next step is a Sprint, a Build, or fractional Lead, scoped straight from the Diagnostic.
The front door
The Diagnostic, the operator's read.
An operator's read turned on your own product, for you: an honest assessment of where the architecture, the codebase, the team, and the delivery process will help you or hurt you, written to be acted on rather than filed.
What you get
- A prioritised findings memo, ranked by impact and effort
- A roadmap you can hand to your team or your board
- A live readout call to walk through it and argue with it
Shape
- Scoped and agreed up front
- One to two weeks, depending on system size
- Remote, or on-site where it earns its keep
from €6,000
Indicative, scoped per engagement.
The Sprint
One objective, one fixed deliverable.
When the read already exists and the work is clear, a Sprint puts a single objective on the table with one defined deliverable and no scope-stacking: an architecture and migration plan, a de-risking spike or proof of concept, or a pre-stage-gate readiness pass. Two to three weeks, one outcome.
€18,000-28,000
Indicative range. Two to three weeks.
Fractional leadership
Three retainer tiers, by how present I am.
~1 day / week
Advisory
from €8,000/mo
Sounding board for the calls that matter: architecture decisions, board prep, technical hiring, the occasional fire. Reachable and in the loop, not running the day to day.
~2 days / week
Embedded
from €14,000/mo
Hands on the work. Roadmap ownership, time in the codebase, leading and growing the team, and the investor conversations that come with it.
Near full-time
Interim CTO / CPO
€2,500-3,000/day
A defined mandate: a modernisation, a leadership gap, getting ready for due diligence. Billed monthly, for the months it takes and no longer.
Retainers run a 90-day minimum, then month to month. All figures are starting points, net of VAT, and scoped per engagement. Longer interim mandates carry a lower day rate, quoted privately.
Build
Bigger builds, scoped from the Diagnostic.
Larger product and engineering work, a rebuild, a platform migration, a regulated-software push, is scoped straight from the Diagnostic as a fixed-fee project or a retainer. The Diagnostic is the on-ramp: we both know exactly what we are committing to before anyone signs. More on how I build →
Via partners
Two things I bring, but do not price.
Due diligence
Technical due diligence
I bring the operator's read on architecture, team, and execution into PE and VC assessments, delivered through a due-diligence partnership. Pricing and the engagement run through them; I make the introduction.
With Lena Reinhard
Coaching for technical leaders
Co-delivered coaching for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical founders, combining engineering-leadership experience with organisational psychology. Scoped per engagement.
Tell me where you are.
If a Diagnostic is the right first step, I'll say so. If it's not, I'll say that too, and point you somewhere better where I can.