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Strategy is only half the story — we also ship.
Fractional CTO & AI strategy for startups and growing teams — helping you answer the hard questions before you write a line of code.
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Fast-moving teams often skip the conversations that would save months of rework. We specialize in exactly those conversations.
Feature sprint after sprint — but no clear map from the work to the actual business goal. Leadership and engineering are speaking different languages.
Nobody can agree. Engineering wants to build. Finance wants to buy. The vendor demo was impressive. The deadline is next month.
The board wants an AI strategy. The team is evaluating five frameworks. No one is sure what problem they're solving with any of them.
We embed at the leadership level, not just the code level — shaping decisions from product vision through architecture through delivery.
Senior technical voice available for architecture reviews, hiring decisions, engineering culture, and board/investor technical Q&A — without the full-time executive cost.
Facilitated discovery sessions that align engineering work to business outcomes. We help leadership and product teams surface assumptions, validate priorities, and kill work that doesn't matter.
Practical guidance on where and how to integrate AI into your product and operations — from tool selection through deployment and observability.
Measuring is easy — acting on the right signal in the right context is hard. We help teams watch metrics like DORA, SPACE, and DevEx without chasing vanity numbers, and build just the right amount of internal tooling.
SRE isn't a role — it's a practice. We help teams build the observability and reliability culture that lets them move fast without breaking things on a Friday afternoon.
Rigorous analysis of make-or-buy decisions before the team is already halfway through a custom implementation — or locked into a vendor contract.
We cut through the hype to match the right tools to the right problems — from orchestration frameworks to model-level choices and agentic runtimes.
Choosing between frameworks matters. LangChain enables rapid prototyping of retrieval-augmented pipelines. LangGraph adds stateful, conditional agent graphs for multi-step reasoning. LangSmith closes the loop with tracing, evaluation, and dataset management so you can actually trust what you've shipped.
Frontier API vs. fine-tuned open weights vs. on-device inference — each has a legitimate use case. We help you avoid paying frontier prices for jobs a smaller model handles just as well, and identify where raw capability is actually required.
AI in production needs the same rigor as any other critical path. Evaluation datasets, prompt regression testing, cost monitoring, and safety guardrails aren't optional — they're what separates a demo from a product.
No long on-boarding, no SOW negotiations in week one. We move at the speed your team needs.
Send us a note at nil@nilproductions.com describing what's stuck or what decision is looming. We'll schedule a short conversation.
We'll shape a focused engagement — a single decision, a sprint of advisory sessions, or ongoing fractional leadership. We match the format to the problem.
Concrete outputs: decision frameworks, architecture documents, vendor scorecards, roadmap reviews. Opinions you can act on, not slide decks you'll archive.
Engagements flex as your needs change. Pause, extend, or shift focus. We're here for the long relationship, not just the next invoice.
Strategy is only half the story — we also ship.
Drop us a note and we'll set up a 25 minute conversation. No pitch deck, no commitment — just a direct discussion about what you're trying to figure out.
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