Fractional CTO, available now
Jason Flatford
If you are responsible for something and there is nobody who can own its technology, I take that seat.
I come in as the technical owner. I make the calls, I do the work, and I am accountable for whether it ships. Remote, and scaled to the problem.
The offer
When nobody can make the call
Remote. I scale to the problem: some of these need two days a week, some need all of them. It runs for as long as the problem takes, not for a fixed number of weeks, because nobody knows at the start how long it takes.
A stalled project.
It has not moved in months. Everyone has a reason and nobody has a plan.
A decision that is yours to make and impossible to make.
You have the authority. You do not have the basis. The people advising you disagree and you cannot referee it.
A CTO-shaped hole.
Someone left, or there was never anyone, and the work does not stop to wait for a hire.
- The thing actually shipped.
- A written record of what was decided and why, so nobody re-litigates it in six months.
- Someone on your side who can carry it forward.
- A straight account of what is still broken and what it will cost.
What it costs depends on how much of the week the problem takes, and nobody knows that at the start. Tell me what is stuck and I will give you a number before you commit to anything.
The evidence
Where I have already done this
Who is taking the seat
I'm a self-taught engineer who ships products from zero to scale. I was the sole early developer of Melee.gg, building it into a global esports SaaS used by hundreds of thousands of players before running it for six years as EVP of Product. Today I'm Co-Founder & CTO of NILmetrics, where I architected the scoring engine and data pipeline end to end, and volunteer technical lead on the PostSecret archive, working directly with its founder. I also founded Duly, a constituent-communications platform for elected officials' offices. I build AI-native systems: grounded LLM agent pipelines, natural-language-to-SQL with guardrails, and scoring services. Contracting runs through Mythic Works LLC, which is also where the sister projects live. I build like an engineer and think like a founder, and I care deeply about the difference between software that works and software that matters.
Something of yours stuck?
Describe it in a paragraph. I will tell you honestly whether I can help, and if I cannot I will say who might.