Team, Hiring & Due Diligence
Your first five hires define your velocity for the next two years. I write the hiring plan, design the loop, run the technicals, and make offers — or run the DD on someone else's team before you invest or acquire.
- Role design, scorecards, and hiring plan
- Interview loop design with calibration
- Run technical and architecture interviews end-to-end
- Engineering career ladder and levelling
- Comp bands benchmarked against UK + EU market
- Promotion and performance frameworks
- 5–7 day pre-investment or pre-acquisition DD
- Codebase, architecture, security, and team review
- Written report ready for investment committee
- Hiring plan + interview loop kit
- Engineering ladder + comp bands
- Technical DD report (IC-ready)
Hiring work: ongoing as part of CTO retainer. DD: fixed-fee, 5–7 day turnaround.
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Embedded as your part-time CTO. Own technical direction, unblock the team, and report into the board.
Fundraising & Deal Support
Pre-seed to seed fundraising from the founder's side of the table. Legal, financial, and technical workstreams run in parallel — so you close faster and cleaner.
Product Management
Ship the right features at the right time. Roadmaps tied to real user outcomes, not founder instinct.
Ready to scale your engineering?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call — and point you toward someone who is.