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Why Philadelphia teams call us.
Philadelphia is health systems and pharma — CTO-level work here is regulated and large-scale.
Philly teams call us when a health, pharma or finance organisation needs senior leadership for HIPAA-aware modernisation, when hiring needs judgement, or when a vendor/AI decision needs an independent voice.
We operate as well as advise, with a bias to incremental modernisation of regulated systems.
Philadelphia is health systems and pharma — large, regulated organisations modernising data and clinical workflows under HIPAA.
"We are raising, and our technology story will not survive a serious investor's diligence."
"We have engineers, but nobody senior enough to own architecture, hiring and the hard trade-offs."
"Our last CTO left, or we cannot justify a full-time one yet. The decisions will not wait."
"Every vendor is selling us AI and we have no independent voice in the room."
"The build is slipping and we cannot tell if it is the team, the scope or the architecture."
What we do
What a fractional CTO actually owns.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call. If we cannot tell you something useful in that window, we do not take the work on.
Architecture and strategy
The calls that are expensive to reverse: build or buy, platforms, data model, AI strategy and the order you do it in.
Hiring and team design
We write the specs, sit on the panel, design the org and onboard senior hires, so the team gets better, not just bigger.
Vendor and AI evaluation
An independent voice across the table. We run the bake-offs, read contracts for lock-in, and tell you when not to buy.
Board and investor story
The architecture narrative, roadmap and risk register that hold up in diligence, raise or sale.
Delivery and velocity
Why the build is slipping, and the plain fixes: scope discipline, process and the right seniority in the right seats.
Governance and risk
Security, data and AI risk framed for your board and your regulators, not buried in an engineering wiki.
How we engage
Three ways to start. All begin with a call.
Technical Due Diligence
A two-week diagnostic of architecture, team, delivery risk and AI readiness, for a raise, an acquisition or your own board. Fixed fee.
from US$10K
Get a proposalFractional CTO
Two to four days a week, embedded. We own architecture, hiring and vendor calls and carry the technical story. Quarterly outcomes.
from US$12K/mo
Get a proposalAdvisory retainer
A senior sounding board for your founder, CEO and lead engineers. Architecture reviews, hiring calls and the hard decisions, on tap.
from US$6K/mo
Get a proposalCompliance and data
Built for US rules from day one.
We design for HIPAA where health data is in scope, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and state privacy law such as CCPA and CPRA.
We are headquartered in Sydney and work with Philadelphia teams remote-first, in your timezone, with on-site visits for kickoff and key milestones when needed.
Also in Philadelphia
Other ways we help Philadelphia teams.
Questions
What Philadelphia teams ask.
Straight answers to what Philadelphia teams ask before they book.
Are you based in Philadelphia?
We are headquartered in Sydney and work with Philadelphia teams remote-first, in your timezone, with on-site visits for kickoff and key milestones when needed. We work with teams across Center City, University City and the Navy Yard.
How fast can you start?
A two-week Technical Due Diligence can start the Monday after the scoping call. Larger engagements usually begin one to two weeks out.
Do you work in USD and to US rules?
Yes. We contract and price in USD. We design for HIPAA where health data is in scope, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and state privacy law such as CCPA and CPRA.
How is this different from a management consultancy?
We operate. We have built and run production systems and our own products, so the architecture and hiring calls come from people who have lived the consequences.
Will you support a raise or an acquisition?
Yes. Diligence prep, the architecture narrative, data-room materials and sitting in the technical session are core to the work.
HIPAA-aware modernisation leadership?
Yes — the primary lens, delivered incrementally so a regulated system keeps running.
Independent vendor/AI read?
Yes — no kickbacks, evidence-led.
Do you actually build, or just advise?
Both, and we never advise without being willing to build. If the answer is Apache Superset, we stand it up. If it is a senior hire, we write the spec and sit on the panel.