Fractional CTO for AI Product Companies
Turn your AI capability into a product customers will pay for
You can build impressive models. But models aren’t products.
Most AI startups waste months building infrastructure or chasing features, then realize users don’t care about the AI — they care about the problem it solves.
I help you ship AI products that deliver value, not just technology.
What I do
Define the problem your AI actually solves Customers don’t buy “GPT-4 wrapper” or “computer vision.” They buy solutions to real workflow problems. I help you articulate what value you’re creating and for whom.
Build product around the model, not the other way around Your model is a component. I design the product architecture — data pipelines, user workflows, feedback loops, monitoring — that turns your AI into something customers can use.
Ship working products in weeks A functional AI product in 4-6 weeks. Real users. Real feedback. Real data on whether your model is solving the right problem before you spend 6 months optimizing it.
Who I work with
Pre-seed and seed-stage AI companies where the founders are strong in ML but need product and engineering leadership.
Often you’ve got a working model or prototype but don’t know how to package it as a product. Or you’re non-technical with a technical co-founder who only knows how to build models, not software products.
How we work together
Usually 2-3 days per week for 3-6 months. I work alongside your ML team to define product requirements, design the application architecture, build the user-facing product, and set up the infrastructure to monitor and improve performance.
Recent work
Helped a document processing AI turn their model into a usable product with API, web interface, and feedback collection in 5 weeks. They onboarded 10 beta customers who showed them which document types actually mattered.
Built data pipeline and monitoring for a recommendation engine, reducing model inference time by 60% and giving the team visibility into which predictions were working.
Let’s talk
If you’ve got AI capabilities but need help turning them into products users will pay for, or your current product is all infrastructure and no user value, let’s talk.