I help founders turn ambition into products people actually use. AI MVPs and agentic workflows when that is the right lever. Senior judgement when theatre would waste the runway.
Technology is the easy part. Building the business is the work.
Co-founder of a seven-figure, VC-backed HR tech platform. Now building AI products with founders and the businesses they run.
I’ve felt the pressure of late clients, payroll, and the gap between a pitch deck and a product people actually use.
I took an HR tech platform to seven figures in revenue with VC behind it. That chapter taught me what scales, what breaks, and what founders really need from a technical partner: someone who ships weekly, kills bad scope, and keeps the product pointed at revenue.
Since then I’ve helped multiple businesses design and build AI MVPs and agentic AI workflows. Maintenance teams that need past fault knowledge at the point of diagnosis. People who need their whole net worth in one currency. A SaaS startup that bought its MVP from an agency and needed a way to fix it properly.
Most AI projects fail the same way. Too much theatre. Too little product. A chatbot that impresses in a meeting and dies on Friday. A prototype with no ownership story. Runway burned on the wrong loop.
Founders need a senior builder who will say what not to build, ship a core loop in production, and leave them owning the work.
Alongside client work I’m building my newest AI offering: AI Engineering packages for founders who need a production product without standing up a full team, and CTO Consulting for software businesses that need technology, AI and product strategy without a full-time CTO yet.
Read my story →Revenue at the VC-backed HR tech platform I co-founded.
From brief to a working product, on two recent AI and finance builds.
Information-recall accuracy on a maintenance AI application, within 3 months.
To clear every critical bug from a live, agency-built MVP.
Client names withheld. Outcomes are real; where a number is not yet confirmed, I leave it out.
An AI application built in 90 days. It reads the machine manuals, recalls past work orders with above 95% accuracy and guides technicians to the root cause, so similar faults get the correct fix.
02 Built · Finance productA finance application ready in 90 days. Cash, Open Banking accounts, mortgages and crypto in one portfolio, converted into one currency and analysed with hedge-fund metrics.
03 Rescued · Delivery and qualityA live SaaS startup with an agency-built MVP and tens of critical bugs. In 3 months every critical bug was gone and the team had a workflow to take each fault through to resolution with clients.
Weekly micro-sprint packages that turn a clear brief into a production MVP or an agentic workflow you can run. Small, Medium and Large. Demos every week. You own everything.
For software businesses that need help with technology, AI and product strategy. Direction, architecture and delivery rhythm without hiring a full-time CTO on day one.
He is an executor and a doer. He understands building an MVP, and validating against the market before rushing in, which I found unique and priceless.
Tell me whether you need an AI Engineering package or CTO-level help on technology, AI and product. We start with a clear brief so we do not waste your runway.
Or email carl@carldeantucker.com