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Practical notes for founders on fractional CTO work, business and AI automation, serverless architecture, and shipping products without a large engineering team.

Automation

  1. How to build AI workflow automation that ships beyond the demo

    Production AI workflows: human-in-the-loop, observability, permissions, and real integrations—not internal chatbot theater.

  2. Business process automation for startups: what to automate first

    Prioritize CRM, billing, onboarding, and reporting before vanity AI—an ROI matrix for lean teams.

  3. Healthcare automation without breaking compliance

    PHI boundaries, audit logs, and safe targets—scheduling, intake, and ops automation for health tech.

Engineering & leadership

  1. What a fractional CTO actually does in the first 90 days

    A week-by-week playbook for audits, architecture, hiring decisions, and shipping the first production milestone—not slide decks.

  2. When to use Cloudflare Workers vs AWS Lambda

    How to choose edge compute vs regional serverless based on latency, data location, cost, and team skills—without religious wars.

  3. Building a marketplace MVP without a full engineering team

    Scope the smallest two-sided product that proves demand: listings, trust, payments, and admin—sequenced for speed.