Fractional CTO · AI Advisory
Practical AI transformation for companies that cannot afford to get it wrong
I help mid-market and enterprise organisations adopt AI with the rigour of 35 years in enterprise IT and the perspective of someone actively using AI to build and operate a production SaaS platform.
What I Do
Three ways I work with clients
I work with mid-market and enterprise organisations. Each engagement is shaped around what your company actually needs, not a fixed methodology. My delivery practice is built on Anthropic's Claude, which I recommend as a starting point because it is currently the most capable engineering stack for production AI work.
Fractional CTO
Many companies reach a point where technical decisions carry real strategic weight, but the workload does not justify a full-time CTO. I step in as a senior technology partner, typically one to two days a week, working with your leadership on architecture, hiring, vendor selection, and technical direction.
AI Readiness Assessment
Before committing budget to AI, it pays to understand what you are working with. I review your data landscape, existing systems, team skills, and risk tolerance, then deliver a clear report on where AI can genuinely help and where it cannot.
AI Implementation Support
Strategy without execution is just a slide deck. I build with Claude Code daily on BeWell Catalyst, and I work alongside your engineering teams to select the right AI tools, build working integrations, deploy Claude Code and MCP workflows, and get AI operating inside your actual business processes.
Proof of Capability
I have not just advised on this. I have built it.
The hardest thing to find in a fractional CTO is someone who has genuinely built and shipped production software, not just advised on it from the sidelines.
I designed, built, and operate a SaaS platform used by healthcare professionals at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery. Every architecture decision, every deployment, every line of code. This is not a story about working alone. It is proof that modern AI, in experienced hands, enables what previously required a team of engineers. When I advise your team on AI, I have recently been in every seat they are sitting in.
See the platformBeWell Catalyst
A production SaaS platform serving 700+ healthcare professionals at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery. Built on Google Cloud with Flutter for iOS and Android, with Claude Code as the primary development environment, featuring AI-powered analytics, a white-label architecture, and research-grade data collection.
About
Background
My career has spanned France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. I started in computer science research in France, spent a year as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and then over two decades in enterprise architecture roles at Shell and BP in the UK. At Shell, I was the architect for Fleet Solutions, a $1 billion B2B business operating across more than 40 countries. I know what it takes to get technology initiatives moving inside large, complex organisations, and I know the common ways they fail.
Since 2018, I have designed, built, and operated a SaaS platform that now serves over 700 healthcare professionals at the UCSF Center for Mindfulness in Surgery. I run this as a solo operator using AI development tools, not because I want to work alone, but because modern AI makes it possible. That is unusual for an advisor at my level of experience: hands-on, current knowledge of what AI can genuinely do in production, combined with the enterprise perspective from three decades at Shell, BP, and other large organisations.
I also hold an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University (Wales), which informs my work on the Mindful Tech Leader programme and gives me a practical understanding of the human side of technology transformation.
Last updated: 24 April 2026