Fractional CTO & AI Consultant — Austin, TX
Austin's tech scene
is growing fast.
Your technical leadership
should too.
Enterprise companies are relocating to Austin. Startups are raising here. The talent war is real — and the hardest role to fill is the one that sets technical direction for everything else.
Why Austin companies hire me
Austin has become one of the fastest-growing tech markets in the country. Oracle, Tesla, Samsung, and dozens of funded startups call it home. But the local talent pool hasn't caught up yet — not at the senior leadership level.
The CTO gap
Austin has plenty of engineers. What it doesn't have enough of is technical leaders who've operated at the scale of Apple, Microsoft, and PayPal — and can bring that experience to a 15-person startup without the $400k+ salary and equity package a full-time CTO commands.
AI moves too fast for committees
Most Austin companies know they need AI. Few have someone internally who can evaluate which models to use, where automation will actually save money, and what's hype versus production-ready. I've been shipping AI systems for years — not pitching them.
Bay Area experience, Austin availability
I'm based in San Francisco and travel to Austin regularly for ClaimHawk, the dental AI product I'm building here. That means you get someone with 25+ years of Bay Area engineering depth — contracted by Intel, YouTube, X.com, and others — who is actually on the ground in Austin when it matters.
What I do in Austin
This isn't theoretical. I'm actively building in Austin right now.
ClaimHawk — dental AI, built in Austin
ClaimHawk is an autonomous AI system that handles dental insurance claims end-to-end. It reads EOBs with custom OCR, extracts denial codes, drafts appeal letters, and resubmits claims — without a human touching them.
The results are real: 67% fewer denials and 4x faster payments for dental practices running it. It integrates with OpenDental, Dentrix, and Eaglesoft, and deploys on-premise for HIPAA compliance.
I built ClaimHawk the same way I build systems for clients — by understanding the actual operations, automating the painful parts, and leaving the humans to do what humans are good at.
Read the ClaimHawk case studyOn-site workshops and sprints
Some work is better done in person. I fly to Austin for intensive engagements — architecture sprints, AI implementation kickoffs, and hands-on workshops where your team walks away with working tools, not just notes from a talk.
A typical on-site sprint is 2-3 days. We map your highest-value automation targets, build proof-of-concept systems against your real data, and leave with a clear engineering plan your team can execute — or that I execute as part of an ongoing engagement.
For Austin companies, this is especially valuable. You get face-time with someone who has led engineering at the scale of GEICO, Callaway Golf, and Upper Deck — without relocating someone or paying a Big Four consultancy to send you junior analysts.
Services available in Austin
Everything I offer is available to Austin companies — remote, hybrid, or fully on-site depending on the engagement.
Fractional CTO
Part-time technical leadership — architecture, hiring, vendor evaluation, and engineering process.
Fractional CAIO
Chief AI Officer advisory for companies building an AI strategy from scratch.
AI Consulting
Hands-on AI implementation — not slide decks. Working automation delivered to production.
AI Workshops
On-site team training in Austin. Prompt engineering, AI-assisted development, custom tool workflows.
Custom AI Tools
Purpose-built AI systems for your specific business operations. Designed, built, and deployed.
Building something in Austin and need senior technical leadership? Let's talk about what you're working on.
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