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fractional technical ownership

Keep building with AI. Put production under control.

For founders with live software and no senior technical owner. I establish safe releases, secure data boundaries, monitoring and rollback, then take responsibility for the high-risk decisions that should not be left to a prompt.

Apply for a 10-day Production TakeoverSee the AiudApp production case

$2,500 fixed · ten business days · no automatic retainer

named production case

The offer comes from work already done on AiudApp.

Tookan central dispatch and Bubble dashboards became separate Next.js applications. Customer tracking was built in Next.js, the Flutter field app was redesigned, and paid Google routing was replaced with self-hosted Valhalla while Xano remained the shared backend.

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production scale
≈60k tasks / month
The connected AiudApp ecosystem currently handles approximately 60,000 tasks per month and is growing.
field-app efficiency
−57.5% requests / user-hour
Observed backend requests per active user-hour fell from 192.3 to 81.8 after the Flutter flows were improved.
the engagement
6-month migration → ongoing
The Tookan replacement took six months. Work continued for more than a year afterward and remains ongoing.

common starting points

The software is live. The missing role is technical ownership.

The product may be AI-built, no-code, custom or a mix of all three. The work begins when it has real users and business consequences, but nobody senior owns the complete production path.

AI-built SaaS

The app works. The production rules do not exist yet.

Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Cursor, Claude Code, Next.js and Supabase can get a product to users quickly. The Production Takeover establishes the safety boundaries that let it keep moving.

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inherited or fragmented stack

Stabilize what works. Replace only what earns its way out.

A live product may span vendor platforms, custom code and former contractors. That may include Bubble, but the work covers the whole production system. Each part is kept, stabilized or migrated based on operational evidence.

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the ownership ladder

Start by establishing control. Continue only at the level the product needs.

The takeover is the required paid entry. The evidence may then support monthly stewardship, weekly technical ownership, a separate project, an internal hire or no further work.

establish control

Production Takeover

$2,500 fixed

Map one live product, establish the production and AI-change boundaries and leave with a ninety-day decision plan.

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monthly control

Technical Steward

$3,500 / mo

Keep risk and release controls current, with one bounded improvement cycle and one plain-language decision note each month.

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weekly ownership

AI-Native Technical Owner

$5,000 / mo

Own architecture, releases, security, infrastructure decisions and one bounded active technical lane each week.

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the problem

AI made it faster to ship. It did not remove the need to own production.

Code generation is not the same as release responsibility. The value is not a generic scan or a prompt library. It is knowing the system, defining the change boundaries and making the consequential calls when the tools disagree.

The system has no single owner

The founder, an agency, a former contractor and an AI tool each know a part of the product. Nobody is responsible for the whole production path.

Speed has outpaced control

A prompt can create a feature in an afternoon. That does not establish which data it can reach, how it is tested or how it is rolled back.

The next business event raises the cost of guessing

The first enterprise customer, a payment failure, a security question or a broken release turns technical uncertainty into an operating problem.

the first engagement

Ten business days to establish control.

The Production Takeover maps the system and critical paths, ranks the risks that matter, establishes an AI Safe-Shipping System and fixes or contains one eligible material issue. The resulting artifacts are yours whether or not we continue.

  1. 01Fit and access review
  2. 02System and critical-path map
  3. 03Release and AI change boundaries
  4. 04One material intervention and next plan

what gets owned

A named person for the decisions that become expensive when nobody owns them.

  • Architecture and technical tradeoffs
  • Authentication, permissions and data boundaries
  • Release verification, monitoring and rollback
  • AI change instructions and approval lanes
  • A plain-language decision path for the founder

fit

A narrow offer on purpose.

This is a better fit for a founder with a live product and a meaningful production trigger than for someone seeking the cheapest route to a new build.

  • New MVPs or an unfinished feature list.
  • Unlimited development queues, emergency on-call or same-hour response.
  • A company that needs a full engineering team rather than one senior owner.
  • A buyer selecting purely on an hourly rate.

Your product is live. The next release should have an owner.

Apply for a Production Takeover if users, payments or business data already depend on the product. The fit check is short and the answer is direct.

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