Field notes on building autonomous AI agents, workflow automation, data architecture, and AI-native SaaS — from a fractional AI CTO.
A fractional AI CTO gives you senior technical leadership part-time — strategy, architecture, and hiring — without the cost of a full-time executive. Here is what the role covers.
ReadThe patterns that separate a demo agent from a production one: clear tool boundaries, deterministic guardrails, retries, evals, and human-in-the-loop escalation.
ReadWhen to reach for n8n and when to write code. A decision framework for the automation layer of a growing business, based on change rate, complexity, and ownership.
ReadAI is only as reliable as the data under it. The pipelines, vector stores, and observability that turn a flaky prototype into a system you can trust.
ReadHow to architect an AI-native SaaS from scratch: pick a boring stack, isolate the AI, design for cost from day one, and keep a human escape hatch.
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