For non-technical founders with AI-augmented engineering teams

"I built the prototype in a weekend. Why is shipping it taking a month?"

I'm a founder-mode fractional CTO. I read your code and your shipping process, and I close that gap in 90 days.

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The velocity gap

The gap is real — and it has a fixable cause.

You ship a working prototype over a weekend. Your engineers take two weeks to ship something smaller. The math doesn't add up, and no one in the room can explain why.

The cause is the distance between a demo and production: the tests, reviews, and infrastructure that make software safe to ship. That distance is hard to see from the outside, and it rarely gets translated into language a founder and an engineer can share — so it shows up as friction instead of a conversation.

“His vibe coding seems to move faster than SDEs delivering features.”

What I do

I translate, in both directions.

Start from the code

I form my read from your repo, your pull requests, and your pipeline — the real artifacts. Depending on your product and team, I pair that with focused conversations to fill in what the code alone can show.

Close the velocity gap

I find where work actually stalls and rewire it so features ship at the speed your prototypes promise.

Bridge founder and team

I turn what you want into what your engineers can build, and their concerns into decisions you can make, working embedded with your team.

Set engineering strategy

I set engineering strategy with you: what to build now, what to defer, where to invest, and how the architecture, roadmap, and team evolve as you scale.

How it works

Ninety days, three steps.

Kickoff Call

Free, 90 minutes. We align on goals, I get access to your code and team, and we lock the plan for the next 90 days.

Diagnostic Sprint

I read your engineering end to end — team, architecture, delivery, AI workflows — and hand you a clear state-of-engineering with costed risks and the highest-leverage moves.

Embedded Engagement

I work inside your team to close the gap: shipping cadence, code review, hiring, and the calls that have stalled. Founder-mode, hands-on.

$Mayank — founder-mode fractional CTO$

I'm Mayank — a founder-mode fractional CTO. Eighteen years building software: I've shipped AI SaaS used by millions, built agent systems alongside engineering teams, and led engineering as a CTO and senior leader at multi-stage startups.

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