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Dawn Patrol

Fractional CTO 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. 01

    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. 02

    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. 03

    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. 04

    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.

Tell us what you're building.

A few sentences is enough.