What problem does it solve?
Provides experienced CTO and VP-level guidance to help engineering leaders make strategic, organizational, and product-technology decisions without getting lost in implementation details.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Technology strategy & tech radar: Recommend adopt/trial/assess/hold guidance for stack choices and platform direction.
- Roadmap planning & OKRs: Create engineering roadmaps, objective key results, and horizon-based planning for short and long term.
- Build vs Buy & vendor evaluation: Structured templates to evaluate vendors, cost tradeoffs, and lock-in risk.
- Technical debt triage & DORA metrics: Classify debt, define servicing rules, and benchmark deployment frequency, MTTR, and change failure rates.
- Team structure & hiring: Hiring scorecards, team topologies, first 90 days playbook for new CTOs or tech leads, and blameless postmortem culture guidance.
- Use Case: Rapidly onboard a new CTO to assess current engineering health, prioritize top technical bets, and deliver a 90-day execution plan.
Quick Start
Advise on a 90-day engineering roadmap and hiring plan for a Series A startup scaling from 10 to 50 engineers.