Hands-on engineering for B2B teams
From MVP to Series A — delivery, audits, and fractional technical leadership
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Three thingsthat changethe outcome
Hands-on, not advisory
An extension of your team. Accountable for what ships
Founder-led delivery
Same person on the call, in the standup, and on the deliverable
One engagement at a time
Your project gets the studio's full attention
Industries shipped :
Four engagement shapes for four moments of company growth
Pre-seed founders shipping the first MVP, Series A teams scaling delivery, enterprise orgs running specialized work — pick the shape that fits where you are
Early-stage build
Pre-seed and seed companies bringing the first product to market.
Series A delivery
Growing companies scaling their engineering systems and team.
Specialist engagement
Large organizations with established teams that need targeted depth.
Strategic technical partnership
Pre-Series B and enterprise orgs running multi-team initiatives.
Recognise one of these?
You're in the right place.
Four shapes of pain that show up
across the spectrum we work in.
The MVP needs to ship — and you don't have an engineering team yet
Validated hypothesis, runway, but no in-house build capacity. Time-to-market matters more than building permanent infra. You need a partner who treats scope-lock seriously.
Velocity is dropping as the team grows
PR flow has become a multi-day queue. Roadmap stalls; more hires aren't helping. Hard to articulate what "good" looks like in delivery metrics.
The technical leadership seat is empty
VP Eng just left, or hiring one is a year away. Founder is firefighting daily; architectural decisions are stuck. Senior engineers start asking quiet questions.
Pre-funding event, engineering needs to grow up
Investors will ask about platform, on-call, and security posture. You need a credible plan and an operator to ship it. Six months until the round — not eighteen.
Ways to engage
Each offer is a specific shape with a specific outcome
Engineering Audit
5-day structured diagnosis with a 90-day plan. Best when you want an independent read before a bigger commitment. Light-touch on the team — workshop, anonymous interviews, written review.
Include:
Audit • 5 days • Fixed-fee
CTO Consulting
Fixed-scope engagement against one acute problem. Velocity, compliance readiness, or hiring pipeline — pick the package. 4–8 weeks · fixed price. Often a pilot before a longer engagement.
Include:
Velocity • Compliance • Hiring
Fractional CTO
Embedded technical leadership on a monthly retainer. 3-month minimum · 15–25 hours per week. Hands-on with process, code review, hiring, and roadmap. Weekly written update and monthly executive review.
Include:
Foundation • Growth • Interim
Delivery Implementation
Six-month rebuild of engineering operations. For pre-Series B and enterprise initiatives. Milestone-billed across the engagement. Full process, hiring, observability, and platform stand-up.
Include:
Pre-Series B • Enterprise • Platform
From first call to ship
Discovery · scoping · engagement · hand-off or expand. Same operating cadence on every shape.
Discovery call
30-minute conversation — no pitch. We map the situation, qualify both sides, and recommend the right offer shape (or another team if we aren't the fit).
Scoping
We send a one-page SOW or a structured intake. You review, sign, and we set kickoff.
Engagement
Whether it's an audit, sprint, or retainer — same operating cadence: weekly written updates, regular working sessions, monthly executive review.
Hand-off or expand
Audit converts to retainer or walks away clean. Sprint becomes retainer or wraps. Retainer renews quarterly. No surprise extensions.
Selected work
Story, numbers, role — for each engagement
Efficlose — Meeting Intelligence SaaS for Revenue Teams
A meeting intelligence platform built from zero. Recording bots, mobile and desktop capture, an AI signal engine, and 23 CRM and project-management integrations — running multi-tenant across the EU and the US.
ObjectFirst — Web Platform Rebuild for an Enterprise Storage Vendor
Web platform rebuilt off WordPress onto a Laravel + Nuxt 3 + Next.js stack. Salesforce wired as the system of record, a new subscription product launched alongside the appliance business, marketing attribution unified, and a thirteen-engineer team built from zero.
EduHam — Coding Learning Platform from Zero to Scale
A coding learning platform built from scratch in twelve months. Custom multi-language sandbox, instructor authoring tools, real-time classrooms, and a closed-loop analytics stack — running 5,000 concurrent learners by handover.
FinCue — Consumer Lending Platform across Two Markets
Three storefronts on a single platform across two markets. Defaults down 42% while approvals grew 14 percentage points.
Senior-only, assembled per engagement. One project at a time
The team is 4–6 people per project. Names available after NDA
Oleksandr Kotliarov
Founder · Engineering Lead
I build engineering teams that ship — from MVP to Series A delivery.
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