$8,000 / month · ~20 hrs/week · ~80 hrs/month
Full ownership, deep context, architecture through deployment.
I'm basically on your team. A part of your team.
Twenty hours a week is the tier where the line between contractor and team member dissolves. I'm not visiting your codebase; I'm living in it. I know where the bodies are buried, I know which tests are flaky and why, I know the thing the last engineer did in March that everyone's been meaning to fix.
And when a new feature needs to ship, I can pick it up and run it — architecture, implementation, review, deploy, follow-up. The whole arc.
This is the tier founders reach for when they need to move without hiring. When the product is working, revenue is real, and the bottleneck is senior engineering capacity rather than money. Hiring full-time takes three to six months and a lot of pain; this doesn't.
Workflow
Full team integration. Daily standups if that's how you work, asyncs if that's how you work; I match your rhythm rather than imposing one. Slack, GitHub, your issue tracker, your deploy pipeline — wherever the team actually operates, I'm there.
Real ownership of real things. A major feature, a platform rewrite, the AI pipeline that needs to go from demo to production, a whole service from scratch — whatever the biggest thing on the roadmap is, I can take it.
Architecture gets made deliberately, with the trade-offs written down. Deploys get observable. Failure modes get documented before they trigger. The work that normally doesn't get done because everyone's too busy shipping — that work gets done.
And the quiet parts — the reliability engineering, the monitoring, the "why is this slow" investigations — those live inside this tier too. Not as an upsell. Just part of the work.
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The whole thing
A senior engineer operating as a core member of your team, without a hiring process, without equity, without onboarding runway. Twenty hours a week of deep context, real ownership, architecture-through-deployment — the whole thing.
This is the tier that moves your roadmap forward; not just reviews it.
Is this for you?
Small teams, shipping fast
Founders whose roadmap is bottlenecked on senior engineering capacity. Teams with AI features that need to go from fragile to production. Companies that have product-market fit and now need the engineering calibre to match. Bootstrapped teams scaling into real complexity, where one more mid-level hire isn't going to solve the actual problem.
If you're between "we need someone senior" and "we need to hire a CTO," this is the tier that bridges it. Often for longer than either of us expects.
If twenty hours feels like more than you need, Partner is the halfway point. If you need more than twenty — thirty, full-time-adjacent — that's a conversation, not a tier. Email me, and we'll figure it out.
still here?
let's start and get to work
If this sounds like the shape of the engagement you actually need, there's a discovery call on the other side of the button.
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