Startup Founders —
Upgrade the Impact of Your Tech Team
Boost delivery with an aligned technology strategy, consistent release cadence, and a high-performing team.
"We saw an immediate improvement in terms of both productivity of the team and stability of our platform."
— Jamie Waldegrave, Finance Director
"Garrett created the structure to allow the business to develop functionality extremely quickly while balancing business pragmatism with architectural ideals."
— Malcolm Slater, CTO
You Want To Go Faster.
You Need To Go Faster.
You've had some early wins. Shipped a product. Landed a few customers. And then everything slowed down.
The tech team is busy. Yet the results aren't there. You're feeling frustrated with the pace of delivery.
Releases are delayed. Deadlines are missed. You don't know when the next feature will be ready.
Quality is inconsistent. Fixing one thing breaks another.
There are complaints about technical debt. Some may even want to rewrite the platform.
You want to go faster to meet your objectives. You need to go faster to grow your business.
Do These Sound Familiar?
The scrappiness that got you through the early stage won't get you to the next level. The issues you face come from one or more of the following. And all of these come back to technology leadership. To reach the next level, you need a foundation for growth in your technology and team.
Lack of Strategic Alignment
The technology strategy and what the engineering team is working on is disconnected from what the business is trying to achieve.
Poor Architecture Decisions or Assumptions
The system architecture is overly complex, using inappropriate technologies, or the design doesn't fit the technology strategy.
Unstructured Ways of Working
Delivery is a struggle and inconsistent. Pieces of work are too big and take too long to complete. Every release is an ordeal and often quality is unreliable.
Low-performing Team
The team structure inhibits collaboration. Or the culture is missing the ingredients to ignite teamwork and enable individuals to perform at their best.
Find out how to augment your technology leaders. Or fill a gap in your technology leadership.
CTO Co-Pilot
Collaborating With Your Technology Leaders
Upgrade your technology leaders in the practical day-to-day. And you get the safety net of having an experienced CTO on board.
Interim CTO
Leading Your Tech Team
To steady the ship. Or turn the ship around. Fill a gap in your technology leadership with a safe pair of hands.
Garrett Mears
Startup CTO and Technical Advisor
Hi, I'm Garrett.
I take the chaos from an early-stage startup and create order that enables it to grow.
I've done it over and over again in my career. First as a software engineer. Then as a CTO.
And now, for the last 7 years, as an Interim CTO and Technical Advisor. I've worked with over 10 startups and assessed over 100 tech companies for investors.
My specialty is the stage of company. I work across industries and technology stacks.
"Garrett is a top-notch transformation CTO."
— Ben Chesser, CEO and Founder
"Working with Garrett was overwhelmingly a positive experience."
— Connie Cha, Managing Director
"As the founder of a number of start-ups I have worked with many consultants. Garrett is definitively the best by a very long way. Garrett has that rare skill of being able to deal authoritatively but sensitively with the developers."
— Rob Shreeve, Founder
"In my experience, consultants come in with the gift of gab, badmouth the team, want to hire their mates, and cause disruption while getting little done.
— Will O'Brien, Principal Engineer
"Garrett is one of those rare individuals who intuitively produce order out of chaos."
— Robert Urwin, Founder & CEO
"Garrett is highly adaptable, dedicated, business focussed and always on the money, Garrett 'gets it' every time."
— Hugh Fahy, COO
Upgrade the Impact of Your Tech Team
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