Senior technology judgement, embedded in your team.

For founders and boards facing a decision that cannot wait: a CTO’s judgement, without the full-time hire.

Alistair Stead, founder and director of Kodehort

You get the experienced team member.

Fifteen years growing an agency, four years as technology leader in a venture builder. Fourteen companies formed, several of which went on to raise series A and B or were acquired. Depth in healthcare, insurtech, and venture studio environments.

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Six services.

Value focused and accountable for positive impact and outcomes.

Executive technology judgement without the full-time hire. We own strategy, architecture, and hiring alongside your leadership team, at a cadence of 1 to 3 days a week. When a CTO leaves, we hold the role steady while you search properly.

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Your team is capable and still stuck: delivery drags, practices slip, managers are learning on the job. We pair with your people, inside their real work, until the habits hold without us.

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A workshop built around your work rather than a syllabus. Engineering practice, product discovery, management, ways of working, and getting real value out of AI. Technical rooms and non-technical ones, on site or online.

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You have a validated idea and no engineering team. We immerse in the domain with you, test the assumptions that matter, build a pragmatic MVP, and hire your founding engineer.

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Technology judgement at board level, once the engineering function runs without us. We read the board pack, ask the questions a technical non-exec should ask, and stay close enough to the team to know whether the answers are true.

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Continuous discovery. Compound experimentation.

Every engagement starts with a short discovery, because vague goals kill waste time and effort. It ends with specific, co-defined outcomes on paper before the main engagement begins.

The experiments validate assumptions, solve problems, and compound to provide effective impact and value return.

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes, no pitch, and a straight answer on whether Kodehort is the right fit.