Questions, answered.

Does your rotation take every page?

No. Our shared 24/7 rotation covers only the systems we build with you in Build, with response terms in writing. Everything else stays with your own on-call.

Will agents push to production?

Not in what we build with you. Agents work in branches, open draft pull requests and stop at the gates you set, and an engineer who understands the change approves every merge.

What does a triage drill prove?

That the agent gathers the right context and stops where it should, on a replayed incident in staging. It checks the setup; it is not a promise about the next outage.

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 hours with our coaches 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: $15,000 a month. Each month, pick up to 5 business processes for our build-with-you coaches to work on. They build your AI systems with you and teach your team to run them. If you ever leave, the systems stay with you. Agents work only on your systems, and a shared 24/7 rotation answers pages within response times set in writing. Build has a three-month minimum: $45,000 at the base level. Higher tiers and separately quoted work cost more.

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.

What happens after I enquire, and what is the minimum commitment?

Send a short description of your work, then choose a time to talk or wait for our reply. The enquiry does not buy a service. We agree scope and price before paid work. Consult: 5-hour block · $2,000 minimum. Build: Three-month minimum · $45,000 minimum commitment. Build Plus is $25,000 a month ($75,000 minimum); Build Program is $50,000 a month ($150,000 minimum). New software products and core-system replacement are quoted separately.