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The AI codebase audit
How to tell a real assessment from a tool dump — what it covers, the evidence standard, and the questions worth asking whoever you hire.
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Moving off Lovable
What actually locks you in, what doesn't, the security pass to run first, and how to size a move from evidence rather than guesswork.
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Base44: stay or migrate?
You can read your code but you can't run your app. What exports, what stays, what growth costs, and when staying is the right answer.
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What the new AI job titles actually mean
Forward Deployed Engineer, Head of AI, Chief AI Officer — which emerging titles are technical seats, which are rebadges of known roles, and what each one maps to.
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AI readiness assessment
What a good assessment covers, what to ask a provider, and when a free scorecard is enough to start.
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Moving off Bolt.new or Replit Agent
What is genuinely portable, what is platform-shaped and has to be rebuilt, the order to do it in — and the cases where staying put is the right call.
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The scan passed. That is not the same as secure.
A scanner tests whether a control is present, not whether it is correct — so a generated app can score well precisely because the generator emits the shape of a control. The checks to run yourself.
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Technical due diligence on an AI-built codebase
The standard checklist was written for code a human team wrote slowly, and it asks the questions a generated codebase answers well. What to ask instead, and the one-page list to take into the room.
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What a fractional CPTO does in the first thirty days
Week by week, concretely — including what fractional cannot fix, how to tell inside a fortnight whether it is working, and when hiring permanently is the better answer.
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When you don't need us
The ordered list of things to check and fix yourself, each with what good looks like — and an honest account of the three situations where an outside pair of eyes earns its place.
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Guides
Straight answers, before you need anyone
Everything here is written to be useful whether or not you ever work with me — sourced, checkable, and honest about when the answer is "you don't need this yet".