Dawn Patrol
AI-Native Product StudioEST. 2023 · PT — ET

AI-native engineering for founders who want to win.

We're the fractional CTO team that owns engineering, product, and support. Plug us in to ship faster, grow revenue, outlearn competitors, and turn AI into compounding business leverage.

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Client teams include
PrivSource
Pacific
Clipping
Daimo
AirGraph
Astra Ventures
01What we do

A fractional CTO team for founders who need senior ownership, faster learning, and measurable business outcomes.

Most agencies hand you junior contractors and a Jira board. We give you a senior team accountable for revenue, retention, delivery speed, and the product decisions that move those numbers.

Every engineer is AI-native. We use agents, evals, and internal tooling to compress cycle time, improve quality, and put more customer learning into every week.

02Services
Engineering
Full-stack product engineering

Senior engineers ship customer-facing product and reliable infrastructure immediately, so roadmap risk drops in week one instead of month three.

Web + iOS + Android releases
Infra ready for revenue spikes
Observability that protects uptime
03Outcome lens

We judge the work by what it changes for the business.

Revenue quality
Commercial focus

Prioritize the work that can change conversion, expansion, pricing, activation, or sales velocity.

Retention loops
Customer learning

Turn support, churn signals, usage data, and founder intuition into a sharper product roadmap.

Reliable shipping
Operational leverage

Improve delivery speed, uptime, observability, and AI quality without creating fragile systems.

04Owned products

Products we've built, shipped, and scaled ourselves.

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Financial tools
Check Supply

Mobile-first check sending and delivery tracking for teams that still need paper rails.

Owned product
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Developer tools
webhook.rodeo

A focused webhook inbox for capturing, inspecting, and replaying event traffic.

Owned product
Alerty screenshot
Developer monitoring
Alerty

Developer alerts and monitoring for catching production issues before users do.

Owned product
Stride screenshot
AI automation
Stride

The easiest way to automate work with AI.

Owned product
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AI infrastructure
Skeet

Connect your MCP tools once, use them everywhere.

Owned product
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Social listening
Buoy Club

Social listening for Farcaster.

Owned product
05Who you'll work with
Michael Pfister, Founder of Dawn Patrol
Michael Pfister
Founder · Dawn Patrol

I've spent a decade shipping products at startups and helping founders turn rough ideas into revenue. Dawn Patrol exists for the moments when a business needs senior product and engineering judgment, fast execution, and real accountability.

06Engagement models

Pick the shape that fits your stage.

Choose the commercial model tied to the outcome: prove a feature, accelerate a roadmap, or hand off product and engineering ownership.
Sprint
For a single problem you need solved fast.
$25k/ 2 weeks
1 senior product engineer
Scoped to one business outcome
Daily async updates
Full IP handover
Perfect for: prototypes, evals, audits
Most popular
Fractional
Your fractional CTO with an embedded product engineering team.
$48k/ month
2-person dedicated pod
Engineering + product + design
Weekly planning and outcome reviews
Shared Linear, Slack, on-call
3-month minimum engagement
Most popular for Seed–Series A
Full-stack
Full-team takeover of product + engineering.
Customstarts ~$120k/mo
3-4 person full-team pod
Staff eng, PM, designer, ops
Roadmap ownership tied to metrics
Direct board reporting
For scaling Series A → C
08Questions

Frequently asked.

Most engagements kick off within 7 days. After an intro call, we draft a scope, agree on a start date, and ship the first deliverable inside the first 2 weeks.

Senior and staff-level engineers who have previously held leadership roles at venture-backed startups. No offshore contractors, no bait-and-switch.

Every person on the team ships with AI tooling wired into their IDE, PR reviews, evaluation pipelines, and customer-support loops. It's not a feature we sell — it's how we work.

Yes. All work is owned by you on delivery. We sign your NDA or provide ours. Full IP handover, no perpetual license nonsense.

Absolutely. About half our engagements embed alongside an existing team. We ramp, adopt your conventions, and hand off cleanly when the engagement ends.

Fractional engagements run month-to-month after the 3-month minimum. Sprints are fixed-scope. Full-stack engagements have a 60-day off-ramp clause.

/ / / Start building

Ship something
worth shipping.

Tell us what business outcome you need next in a 20-minute intro call. We'll be direct about whether we can help, and if we can't, we'll point you to someone who can.

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