I rebuild the system your business runs on. Without stopping the business.
AI advisory and custom software, from one person. I build the system, then hand you the method.
For the owner of a 10 to 200 person company running on software somebody built years ago that nobody dares replace. Colton Weeks, fractional COO and AI advisor, San Francisco Bay Area.
Most recently: a vendor system a department could not trust, replaced and handed over. They were running on it a month after the first commit. One person, 418 merged pull requests. Every build starts with a Current State Assessment: fixed fee, read only, one to two weeks, from $6,500.
One point of contact. Six disciplines.
The complete talent stack without the headcount.
AI strategy and advisory
Where AI genuinely fits your business, and where it doesn't. A written strategy and a standing second opinion before decisions get locked.
System architecture and software design
Production systems designed from your real domain, built to outlive any single contributor.
AI implementation and agentic workflows
AI in daily use, not demos. Agent teams and automation, with every change tested before it ships.
Business improvement analysis
Value-stream mapping and constraint identification. An expert read on where the effort goes and which fix pays first.
Change management and ways of working
Adoption gates, learning loops, and continuous improvement that sticks after I leave.
Efficiency, measured
Measure before we touch. Every engagement starts with a read-only Current State Assessment that puts numbers on the pain.
Behind each of these sits a career of enterprise practice: agile coaching, requirements gathering, automated testing and release, value-stream mapping, and retrospectives. See how I work
If you came here for agents.
Good. I build them. Agents work when they sit on a process someone has actually measured, and they fail quietly when they do not. So I measure first. One to two weeks, fixed fee, and it tells us which agent is worth building. Most of the ones people ask for are not. One or two usually are.
Why one person can do this now.
I spent a career inside the old model: multi-person teams, long timelines, and enterprise price tags. I know what that talent stack costs because I led it.
Then AI changed the math. Strategy, architecture, engineering, and quality used to take a department. They are now available to businesses that already know how to be successful, through one person.
One point of contact. The whole stack. Growth feels calm.
A department was running on software I built a month after I started it. 35,858 lines of application code, 11,299 lines of tests, 418 merged pull requests, on my own. It is still running, and when it was done I moved the repository, the hosting and the domain into their accounts. They do not need me to keep it going.
I always start with the same question.
“Thinking of this aspect of your business on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the absolute best, where would you put it? Now talk to me about the gap between that number and 10.”
I carried it with me from Thoughtworks. It gets further in ten minutes than a discovery deck gets in a week. Try it on the part of your business that's on your mind.
Now talk to me about the gap between 6 and 10.
That gap is where a Current State Assessment starts. How it starts
You do not have to book a call to get a read on it. Send me three sentences about the part of the business you just scored and I will write back within two business days with what I would measure first, and whether I am the right person to do it. No call, no deck, no charge. If the answer is that you do not need me, that is the answer you will get.
Start with the Current State Assessment.
A short call first, to work out whether there's something here worth measuring. If there isn't, I'll say so. That's a cheaper answer for both of us.
Fixed fee. Read-only. You keep the findings either way.