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.
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.
You get the experienced team member.
15 years growing an agency, 4 years as technology leader in a venture builder. 14 companies formed, several of which went on to raise series A and B or were acquired. Depth in healthcare, insurtech, and venture studio environments.
What we do.
Value focused and accountable for positive impact and outcomes.
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.
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.
A decision is blocked on an assumption nobody has tested. We design a time-boxed experiment, run it, and hand back evidence, not PowerPoint.
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.
Continuous discovery. Compound experimentation.
Every engagement starts with a short paid discovery. Vague goals kill part-time arrangements, so we don’t accept them: discovery ends with specific, co-defined outcomes on paper before the main engagement begins. Think “two senior engineering hires in six months”, or “an architecture the next funding round can stand behind”.
The experiments validate assumptions, solve problems, and compound to provide effective impact and value return.
Start with a conversation
30 minutes, no pitch, and a straight answer on whether Kodehort is the right fit.