Two short lists and five hard limits. Read them before you book a call.
This page disqualifies the wrong buyer up front. Both lists are verbatim from the CV, and the five dealbreakers beneath them are verbatim from the constraints file behind it; if none of it reads like you, a call is a waste of both our time.
I replace the team, I don't manage one.
The list below spells out what that means in practice, on both sides.
Good fit and not a fit
Read bothGood fit
- Non-technical founders who need a technical co-founder without giving up equity.
- Teams with domain expertise and no technical team who need to go from idea to product.
- Teams drowning in manual processes who need someone to see the architecture they can't.
- Organizations building AI-native products who need systems thinking, not prompt engineering.
Not a fit
- Companies that already have a detailed spec and just need hands to code it.
- Teams that need someone to manage 10 other developers — I replace the team, I don't manage one.
- Organizations that want a cautious, phased, committee-approved approach.
- Anyone who thinks AI means "add a chatbot to the website."
Two short lists. Good fit: non-technical founders who need a technical co-founder without giving up equity; teams with domain expertise and no technical team who need to go from idea to product; teams drowning in manual processes who need someone to see the architecture they cannot; organizations building AI-native products who need systems thinking, not prompt engineering. Not a fit: companies that already have a detailed spec and just need hands to code it; teams that need someone to manage ten other developers; organizations that want a cautious, phased, committee-approved approach; anyone who thinks AI means add a chatbot to the website.
Five dealbreakers
Not negotiableI work 08:00–17:00 CET and can hold a dependable overlap with any team within two hours of that. If your team sits further out than that, or the contract needs someone on site, or the stack is C# and Azure, this is a no from here rather than a discovery call that ends in one.
Where the answer is no before the call
- Work modeRemote only. Not willing to relocate, and never physically on a client site.
- HoursWorking hours 08:00–17:00 CET; no more than 2 hours of offset from CET.
- StackNo C# / .NET work.
- CloudNo Azure as the primary cloud.
- RoleReplaces a development team; does not manage one.
Five dealbreakers, none negotiable: remote only, with no relocation and never physically on a client site; working hours 08:00 to 17:00 CET with no more than two hours of offset from CET; no C# or .NET work; no Azure as the primary cloud; and replacing a development team rather than managing one.