Fractional CTO · Forward-deployed engineering · AI
I work with early-stage founders as a fractional CTO. I co-founded Gohesive in 2020 and have been its CTO since, and I have led the technology at Doqit, Jetpack and MindClass. As co-founder and CTO of Addie, I took it from concept to 200,000+ users and a filed patent. The companies I have been CTO for have raised over £3M. I live in Tokyo and work with teams in London and across the UK. I like taking a messy MVP and turning it into a system a team can own.
Gohesive builds software and outreach systems for startups and growth-stage companies. I lead architecture, delivery and the engineering team, across infrastructure, APIs, mobile apps and customer-facing platforms.
Four ways I work with founders. Each one starts with a free intro call.
Ongoing
I act as your CTO part-time, owning architecture, delivery and the technical roadmap alongside your team.
Good fit if
You have a product to build, or an MVP that needs to become a production system, and you are not ready to hire a full-time CTO.
What you get
Embedded
I join your team hands-on to build and ship a specific feature, integration or AI capability inside your product.
Good fit if
You know what needs building, often an AI feature or a tricky integration, and need a senior engineer to own it end to end without a long hiring process.
What you get
One-off
A one-off review of your codebase, architecture, security and technical roadmap.
Good fit if
You are preparing to raise, taking over a build from an agency or freelancer, or unsure whether the current system will hold up as you grow.
What you get
As needed
Calls on a specific technical decision, booked when you need them.
Good fit if
You are weighing a build or buy decision, a stack choice, a technical hire or a vendor proposal.
What you get
Not sure which fits? Book a free intro call
Products I have built or led, from first commit to production.
Co-founded
An outreach platform that finds prospects, messages them over LinkedIn and email, and scores every reply.
Built the platform, the data pipeline and the AI reply scoring, and I run the engineering team.
Fractional CTO
Keeps important documents in one place and reminds you before they expire.
Took it to production on iOS, Android and web, with payments, biometrics, analytics and secure file delivery.
Fractional CTO
A mental health platform for workplaces, with courses and counsellor matching.
Built the MVP and first production release, with course delivery, counsellor matching and CI/CD.
Co-founded
A productivity app for people with ADHD, built with clinicians.
I led the whole technology side: architecture, the app, a clinician dashboard, video sessions with AI-assisted notes, and the patent for AI task scheduling.
Fractional CTO
A VC matchmaking platform for startup founders.
Designed and seeded a database of thousands of investors, and built the AI-assisted app with email delivery and tracking.
Side project
Custom Magic: The Gathering cards, decks and a table life counter.
Built for fun and used by real players, with print-ready cards and a Tabletop Simulator exporter.
Facing something similar? Book a free intro call
Awards and shortlists for products I built and my own work.
Doqit · Global Entrepreneurship Network
Doqit
Doqit · Smart Data Foundry and FinTech Scotland
University of the West of Scotland
Gohesive · Tokyo, hybrid
I lead the design, build and delivery of secure, scalable software for startups and growth-stage companies, keeping every build tied to commercial goals.
Doqit · Remote
Took an AI-powered document and life-admin app to production on iOS, Android and web.
Previously as fractional CTO
VC matchmaking SaaS, investor database and AI-assisted outreach.
MVP and first production release of a workplace mental health platform.
Addie · London, hybrid
Led the entire technology strategy and build for an AI-powered, clinically backed productivity app for people with ADHD, from concept to launch and scale.
Education AI
Led product and engineering for an EdTech platform used by schools, directing a team of five engineers and reporting to the CEO.
Research labs first: tracking software for neuroscience, VR teaching tools, and a degree in computer engineering and games.
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