# Fractional CTO and product engineering for startups

A senior engineering and product team for venture-backed founders. We ship product, infrastructure, and AI features, and we own the outcome.

## What we do

- **Product engineering.** Web, iOS, and Android releases, and infrastructure ready for real traffic.
- **AI features.** Agents, retrieval, and automation tied to real workflows, with targets for accuracy, latency, and cost.
- **Product strategy.** Prioritization, prototypes, and metrics that connect roadmap decisions to revenue and retention.
- **Technical leadership.** Architecture, hiring, and engineering process from people who have run teams before.
- **Support and operations.** Support loops, analytics, and incident response that protect customers and uptime after launch.

## How we work

1. **Start with a conversation.** Tell us where you want the business to be. Some teams arrive with a spec, most with a goal. Either way, we come back with a short proposal, not a long statement of work.
2. **Something real on day one.** Action produces information. You'll have code to look at on the first day, and what we learn from it decides what comes next.
3. **Iterate, mostly async.** We ship in small steps you can see and react to, and AI makes every loop faster. You stay focused on the vision; we own the technical decisions and the details.
4. **Measure what changes.** Monitoring, analytics, and safe preview environments show what's working, and give your team the confidence to keep shipping.

## Questions

### We inherited a messy codebase. Can you help?

That's often where we start. Many founders come to us after one or two agencies. We get what's there stable and production-ready, then build from it.

### Which stages do you work with?

Seed through Series C. Fractional engagements suit seed and Series A teams; full-team engagements suit companies scaling from Series A to C.

### Can you work alongside our team?

Yes. About half our engagements embed alongside an existing team. We adopt your conventions and hand off cleanly at the end.

### Who owns what you build?

You do. Everything we build is yours on delivery, with full IP handover. We sign your NDA or provide ours.

## Get started

Contact Dawn Patrol at https://dawnpatrol.llc/contact or hello@dawnpatrol.llc.