Companies bring me in part-time when they need a senior engineer to build the thing - AI tools, apps, automations - and get it running live in the business. Twenty years in technology.
The stack I ship on
I join your team part-time and build the software you need - AI features, apps, automations, whole platforms - then get it running live in your business. You can also lean on me for the bigger calls: what to build, how to build it, who to hire. But it always ends in working software, never just advice.
AI features, apps and automations, built and running live in your business - not a prototype, not a document.
What to build, what to skip, how it should be put together, who to hire. The senior judgement, not just the hands.
Part-time, month to month, with no full-time hire to make. Senior engineering when you need it, gone when you don't.
A two-week paid on-ramp that ends deployed, then an embedded monthly retainer. 30-day rolling, 90-day checkpoint.
Two weeks, fixed scope. Ends with something deployed and working in production, not a document. The fastest, lowest-risk way to start.
I embed and ship your roadmap. One to two days a week, 30-day rolling.
Embedded delivery plus technical direction - architecture, hiring, vendor calls.
Full technical leadership for a business that needs a senior engineer on staff.
Equity co-build available for founders building an AI-dependent product - fee plus economic interest, or pure equity. See the full ladder →
Built from scratch. Production SaaS at scorafy.com - rubric engine, Stripe billing, AI-assessment surfaces, configurable PII retention. Cognitiv-owned IP. In production use with a design partner.
Technology Partner to Sensational League since November 2025. Built and lead the digital platform and member hub - dual-write Sanity + Supabase profiles, GDPR-compliant magic-link auth, and live-event check-in.
Dated notes on what I've shipped and when, updated as the work happens.
Scorafy now offers Australian data residency on Sydney infrastructure at au.scorafy.com, with customer data held in Australia. For Australian training organisations that matters: assessment records and personal data never leave the country.
Trial users now self-select 30, 90, 180, or 365-day anonymisation windows on Scorafy. The evaluation scores survive the redaction; the raw personal answers do not.
The per-respondent Claude pass on Scorafy has now run two full billing months without a regression on the eval suite. Throughput sits around twelve hundred submissions per minute under peak load on a single Vercel region with cold-start...
Technology Partner to Sensational League since November 2025, building and leading their digital platform and member hub. Built Scorafy from zero to live - an AI compliance and assessment platform, Cognitiv-owned IP, in production use with a design partner.
Background - ANZ small-business specialist, three years · secondary computing, Department of Education WA, six years · Vistage AI speaker, two CEO-group sessions · capital-raise documentation for Pentanet ahead of its IPO.
More about how I workA senior engineer who embeds inside your team and ships production code, rather than handing over a strategy document. Fractional means part-time and ongoing - usually one to two days a week - so a business gets senior engineering and AI direction without a full-time hire. Cognitiv works as that embedded partner, taking your roadmap from AI strategy to deployed code.
A two-week, fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement that ends with something deployed and working in production - not a slide deck or a report. It is the on-ramp: a low-risk way to see how Cognitiv works before moving to a monthly retainer. The Ship Sprint is USD $4,000.
The Ship Sprint is USD $4,000 for two weeks. Monthly retainers run from USD $8,000 to USD $15,000 a month: Build at $8,000, Build + Lead at $12,000, and Fractional CTO / AI Lead at $15,000. Retainers are 30-day rolling with a 90-day checkpoint. Equity co-builds are arranged per engagement.
Established businesses adopting AI, founders and teams shipping a product, and operators who need senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. If you want working software and not just advice, Cognitiv is a fit. It works remote-global, and suits any business with the budget for senior engineering but not the headcount.
Start with a two-week Ship Sprint. The fastest way to see how I work - deployed, not a document.