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Career & engineering leadership
IC to lead, lead to exec, or a deliberate pivot into AI work — with a plan instead of a job-board habit.
Scope
What we work on
- Doing lead-level work without lead-level recognition
- Promo packets that list tasks instead of impact
- Interviewing badly for roles you could clearly do
- No read on whether to switch companies or dig in
- Manager-track regret nobody warned you about
What you walk away with
- A written scope of what your next level actually requires here
- An impact narrative with numbers your skip-level can repeat
- A shortlist of companies worth your time and a way in
- A clear-eyed decision on management vs. staff track
Who this is for
- Senior ICs who keep getting told to wait another cycle
- New managers who miss the code and are quietly struggling
- Engineers trying to move into AI/agent work without a research background
Why me for this
I've hired, promoted, and had the hard conversations as a CTO. I know what the room says after you leave it.
Next step
Start with a free 20-minute intro call
No pitch. We work out whether I can actually help, and I'll say so if I can't.