The technical co-founder
you bring on by the day,
not the year.
I'm Faheel. For two years I was CTO of PagerAI, where I grew it from $0 to $1.6M in monthly recurring revenue. Now I help early-stage founders make the technical calls that decide whether a product lives or dies.
How I help
Fractional CTO
Ongoing technical leadership, part-time. I own the calls a full-time CTO would: what to build, when to scale vertically vs horizontally, and which risks are worth taking. You stop guessing on the decisions that compound.
MVP & Build
Zero to shipped. I build the core of your product myself, fast, and built to survive thousands of real users, not just a clean demo.
Advisory & Due Diligence
A senior set of eyes on your stack, a contract, a key hire, or a deal you're weighing. Honest technical judgment for the moments that actually matter.
The part you can't prompt
Anyone can generate code now. The hard part is knowing which decision saves the company and which one sinks it, and someone who has never done it wouldn't even know the question to ask. Two years of operating taught me the difference.
Reading a redlined contract
Knowing what each change in the markup actually means, and what happens in the room before anyone signs.
Scaling decisions
When to scale vertically versus horizontally, and what getting it wrong costs you in money and downtime.
Building what sells
Reading the sales cycle of a product so you build what customers will pay for, not just what is fun to build.
Firefighting in production
Fixing live bugs in real time, calmly, while thousands of users are on the system.
Working with other CTOs
Clean communication and etiquette during integrations, the difference between a partnership that ships and one that stalls.
Build vs buy
Deciding what to build in-house and what to pay for, so engineering time goes where it actually moves the business.
Track record
I've been building since 2018, before AI turned everyone into a builder. As CTO of PagerAI, I grew it from nothing to $1.6M in monthly recurring revenue, owning everything from the architecture to the contracts to the 2am production fires.
The reps are the whole point. Once you've shipped, scaled, negotiated, and broken things in production, you know which decisions matter before they cost you. That judgment is what I bring, long after the first launch.
faheel kamran
fractional cto
est. 2018
I work behind the scenes and stay out of the spotlight. Most weeks you'll find me building remotely, usually somewhere near a national park. If you're early, technical or not, and you need someone senior to own the hard parts with you, we'll get along.
Let's build
something real.
I take on a small number of engagements at a time. Tell me what you're building and where you're stuck, and I'll tell you honestly if I can help.