Stable, Sales Ready SaaS
Starts Here

Stabilise your product, align your team, and reclaim founder focus with an embedded technical growth partner who sits in the driving seat with you

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Skip agency roulette

I embed beside your team, both offshore and in-house, ship in small, proven slices and tie every sprint to a metric that matters

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Roadmap you can actually follow

No more big-bang launches that drain cash and land flat. Revenue-focused delivery plan, clear priorities, predictable releases, and features customers actually asked for

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Hire the right team first time

Define clear technical requirements, interview processes, and team structures that attract and retain top talent

How We Work

Here's My 5-Pillar Signature SPARK Method

Scope Reality

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Scope Reality

Rapid, data-driven assessment of codebase, infrastructure, current team skills and live metrics. Surfaces every stability, velocity and talent gap in < 10 days.

Plan Trajectory

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Plan Trajectory

Co-create a strategic vision, translate it into a product roadmap and success KPIs, then run a "gap map" to reveal the shortest path from today's baseline to sales-ready scale.

Architect Systems

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Architect Systems

Design the target architecture, CI/CD flow and live-metrics dashboard. Introduce "just-enough" Lean rituals, kill brittle hotspots.

Ramp Up

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Ramp Up

Define roles, scorecards and interview loops; hire or promote 2-3 senior engineers to anchor culture; layer in juniors only when mentorship bandwidth exists.

Kickstart Delivery Loop

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Kickstart Delivery Loop

Move to weekly value-slice releases, run release retros and metric reviews, coach the team for continuous improvement.

Companies I Worked With

Services

Free Strategy Call

40 minutes
Quick win plan
  • Tech and team quick assessment
  • Immediate improvement recommendations
  • Technical roadmap overview
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CTO Partnership

3–12 months
Ongoing execution
  • Embedded CTO & technical leadership
  • Ongoing team & tech support
  • Architecture & code design and implementation
  • Team hiring & mentoring
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Resources

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Is your product ready to 10Γ—?

A comprehensive checklist to assess your team and technical readiness for rapid scaling.

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Tech‑Debt Audit Scorecard

Evaluate your technical debt and prioritize improvements with this scoring framework.

About

I'm a seasoned startup founder and CTO who's been in your shoes.
I've built and scaled teams from 0 to 20+ people, navigated funding rounds, and learned (sometimes the hard way) what separates startups that scale consistently and predictably from those that struggle.

My approach combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and is rooted in 20 years in the trenches.

I stay embedded in your business, stand-ups and strategy sessions until your product is stable, your team is firing on all cylnders, releases are predictable and you're free to lead the company - not babysit code.

When that day comes, I'll have made myself obsolete. And that's exactly the point.

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Nick Melis - The Startup CTO

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