We Create. We Build. We Deliver.
We fix technology organizations that have stalled, and build the platforms that get them moving again.
Fractional CTO/CPO leadership and an embedded delivery team for growth-stage companies. Leadership and execution in one engagement, instead of hiring both separately.
How we help
Hands-on leadership for the moments that matter most in a technology business.
Fractional CTO & CPO
Senior technology and product leadership, plus an embedded team that has delivered together for years.
Applied AI
LLMs and agents in real workflows — with the data, architecture and cost controls to make them pay off.
Product Development
Strategic and operational vision to move your roadmap faster while keeping costs in check.
Start-up Acceleration
Build the first product, the first team and the architecture that gets you funded and growing.
Technology Fixes
When systems hurt your reputation or revenue, we own the issue and drive the solution.
Turnarounds
Reset teams, processes and systems to return the business to profitability and growth.
Where we're most useful
Growth-stage SaaS
Founders and CEOs who need senior technical leadership without a full-time CTO hire.
PE & portfolio companies
A platform that has to be stabilized or rebuilt — fast, and without losing customers.
Ready for real AI
Putting AI into production, not pilots, with the architecture, data and cost controls to make it pay off.
A proven process
- 01
Discover
Gather the data and interview people at every level to find the biggest threats and opportunities.
- 02
Analyze
Document findings with clear causes and specific, practical recommendations.
- 03
Strategize
Work with leadership to set resources and a concrete plan of action.
- 04
Execute
Implement with the board and team, with systems that make the plan stick.
- 05
Follow up
Review the results and make sure you have everything needed to keep going.
Meet Chris Black
Chris has served as CTO, CPO and COO for companies at the point where the product, the team or the cost structure stopped scaling. He comes in with a delivery team that has worked together for years, so clients get leadership and execution in one engagement.
What that looks like today
- Product and technology turnarounds: resetting roadmaps, replacing fragile systems, cutting cloud and tooling spend.
- Applied AI: putting LLMs and agents into real workflows with cost controls, not demos.
- Compensation-risk analytics that make pay decisions measurable and defensible (PrecisOne).
- Leading technology and operations for a fuel logistics and marketplace business (Ally Fuels & Nomad).
- PrecisOneFounder, CTO / CPO2024 – present
- Ally Fuels & NomadFounder, CTO / COO2014 – present
- DyQuestChairman & Founder2011 – present
- UpdoptChairman & Founder2014 – 2023
- Pangea-CDS · WebVisible · LRN · JamboCTO/CIO, COO, VP Software DevelopmentEarlier
“He helped us quickly build our initial product at low cost, strategically leverage it to close our initial capital and served as an interim CTO/VP of Engineering.”
“DyQuest brings technical development leadership, the ability to build and run a technical team, software startup experience, and a passion for doing the right thing.”
Weighing a rebuild, a stalled roadmap, or a CTO gap?
Let's talk about where you are and what it will take to get moving again.