Consult: $400 an hour, booked five hours at a time.

What a first block works toward

A written agent policy and review rule, a first runbook drawn from your incident history, or a scope sheet for one agent. We agree the focus at the start.

Decisions are written down in your repo’s terms, so the team can follow them the next day.

Access

We pair on a screen you share or in a branch you control. A Consult block does not need production access, and secrets should stay out of shared sessions.

What we work on

The decisions that stall when the CTO is busy: what the coding-agent policy says, who approves AI-written changes, how on-call works when there are three engineers, and which systems agents may operate.

The first hour uses the Of One method to pin the decision down: who owns it, what outcome counts, what is true in the stack today, and which limits cannot move.

Then we work in your material: your repositories, your incident history, your runbooks or the lack of them. Where it helps, we set up the first agent workflow with you.

What you leave with

Decisions written down with the reasoning behind them, a short list of changes in the order to make them, and working pieces your team can run the next morning.

Where the work touches security, legal or employment questions, we lay out options and trade-offs as education only; the decision belongs to you and your own advisers.

Who it fits

CTOs, heads of engineering and technical co-founders at small companies who want to make these calls themselves, with a coach in the room. Some move on to Build once the first decisions are in place.

Booking

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