Questions, answered.

What is CTO of One?

CTO of One (ctoofone.ai), published by Utlyze, serves technical leaders at small companies who are the backstop for every system. It covers coding-agent policy, code review, on-call design and architecture for agents.

Who is CTO of One for?

CTOs, heads of engineering and technical co-founders who are accountable for all of the systems and are still the person everyone calls when production breaks.

Should my team use AI coding agents?

Most teams can, with written rules: which repositories agents may touch, which tests must pass, how secrets are kept out of reach, and a human approval on every merge. Start with one repository and widen from there.

Who reviews AI-written code?

An engineer who understands the change approves every merge. Agents can do a first pass, such as running tests, flagging risky diffs and summarizing what changed, but the approval stays with a named person.

Does AI-written code create technical debt?

It can, like any code that ships faster than the team understands it. The usual guards are the same ones good teams already use: tests, small diffs, clear ownership and review by someone who could have written the change.

How do I stop being the only one who can fix production?

Write down what only you know as runbooks, make the systems observable enough that someone else can see what broke, and let agents take first-line triage under clear escalation rules. Then practice handoffs before the next incident.

What is a fractional CTO, and is this one?

A fractional CTO is a part-time technical executive who leads technology for one or more companies. Consult gives you senior hours on specific technical decisions; it supports your technical leadership rather than replacing it.

How much are Consult and Build?

Consult: $400 per hour, sold five hours at a time, so the minimum is $2,000. Build: from $15,000 monthly, which buys a dedicated team working beside you at all hours and answering pages 24/7.

How is this different from Business of One?

Business of One serves owners building an AI-first company. CTO of One is for the person accountable for the technology: agent policy, reliability and architecture. Engineer of One, a sister site, is for the person writing the code.

Is this security, legal or employment advice?

No. What we publish on security, law, employment, tax or investing is for learning only. For your own decisions, use qualified advisers who have seen your systems and your company.