What a seat covers
Six problems, one product.
These are not six services with six price lists. There is one thing to buy: a build seat, from $7,500 per month, working one item at a time in the order you set. The pages below describe the kinds of problems people put in front of it.
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AI agents and automation
Your AI automation works in testing and breaks in production
AI automations usually break in production for one of three reasons: the real data is messier than the test data, the workflow has no way to handle a step failing, and nobody can see what the agent actually did. None of those are model problems. They are engineering problems, and they are fixed with error handling, logging, and a data layer that is allowed to be imperfect.
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CRM architecture
Your CRM does not match how you actually sell
Most CRMs are configured around whatever the setup wizard asked for, then patched for years as the business changed underneath them. The fix is not another tool. It is deciding what the business actually promises customers, and building the record structure, stages and automations to enforce that. Sometimes that means a migration, including off legacy vertical software that was never designed to let your data out.
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API integrations
Two systems that need to agree with each other
An integration is easy to demonstrate and hard to run. Moving a record from one system to another takes an afternoon. Keeping two systems in agreement, permanently, while both of them change underneath you, is the actual job. That means deciding which side wins a conflict, handling updates that arrive out of order, and coping with partial records rather than rejecting them.
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Internal tools and dashboards
The internal tool your team currently runs as a spreadsheet
Almost every business has one spreadsheet that quietly became critical. It works, one person maintains it, and everyone is slightly afraid of it. Rebuilding it as a real internal tool is usually a small, well-defined build, and it is often the best first item to point a seat at because the result is visible within days.
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Audits and rebuilds
Someone built it, it half works, and nobody knows how
An inherited system that half works is a common and solvable situation. The first step is reading it and telling you the truth: what it actually does, what is worth keeping, what should be rebuilt, and what should be turned off. That assessment is part of a seat rather than a separate paid engagement, because the answer sometimes is that you need less than you thought.
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Technical direction
A fractional CTO for a company with no engineering team
A conventional fractional CTO chooses the route, picks vendors, and sets direction. That works when you have a development team to hand the decisions to. If you do not, it produces a well-reasoned plan and no way to execute it. This is the same role with the execution attached: you tell me the destination, I choose the route and build the vehicle.
Start with a call, not a contract
Thirty minutes. You describe what broke, what it is costing you, and what you have already tried. I tell you whether a seat is the right answer, and I will tell you when it is not.
Or reach me directly: +1 385-208-1781 scott@aetenum.com
If you are comparing quotes on price, I am not your cheapest option and I will not pretend otherwise.