Founders
I’ve been writing code since I was 8. I’m 39 now. Twenty years professional, a decade of that as a Principal Engineer at a SaaS company that grew to 190,000 users. I’m currently Co-founder and CTO at an AI-native startup, shipping solo on AWS using agentic dev workflows — Cursor, Claude Code, Bedrock, the production stack the right way. I’m all in on it for as long as it takes, which will be a while.
I take five to ten of these a week, alongside running my own company — usually people building on Lovable, Bolt, Base44, or Cursor who want a senior engineer’s eyes on their app for an hour. Not because I’m looking for clients. Because the right hour with the right person, at the right time, used to unstick me when I was 18, and I remember what that felt like.
If that’s useful to you, three options.
For context: putting a senior engineer on retainer typically runs $5,000 to $15,000 a month. These three are the lower-commitment way to get one set of eyes on your work.
The Production Playbook — $99
A written playbook for taking an AI-built MVP from works-on-my-machine to production-ready. Auth and permissions, security, payments and Stripe, observability, hosting and custom domains, AWS cost control, the agentic dev workflow that lets one engineer ship at team velocity. The decisions and the reasoning, not a tutorial.
→ Purchase ($99)30-day no-questions refund.
One Hour — $249
One sixty-minute Zoom call. Use it for code review, architecture questions, AWS triage, Stripe help, security review, whatever you need a senior engineer for. Submit your app URL and three questions when you pay; I’ll have looked at the app before we talk. Written recap emailed within forty-eight hours.
→ Purchase and schedule a call ($249)Full refund before the first call.
Two Hours — $499
Two sixty-minute Zoom calls, used separately. Typically one now, one a few weeks later when you’ve shipped the changes from the first call and have new questions. Same rate, scheduled independently. Two written recaps. For the founder who knows the second touch matters.
→ Purchase and schedule two calls ($499)Full refund before the first call.
FAQ
Who is this for?
Non-technical and semi-technical founders building MVPs on Lovable, Bolt, Base44, Cursor, v0, or Replit who want a senior engineer to look at what they’ve built before it breaks.
Who isn’t this for?
Founders who’ve raised institutional funding or are running real revenue — there’s a separate advisory practice for that, linked at the bottom.
What if I don’t know what to ask?
That’s most of why people book. Submit your app URL and the thing that’s bothering you the most; I’ll come to the call having looked at the app and we’ll work from there.
Do I need to be technical?
No.
Can I get a refund?
Full refund before the first call. After that, no refund — but you still get the written recap.
How fast can I book?
Usually within the week. If the calendar is full, the next opening will be visible at booking time.
If you’re past the early-stage MVP and running a funded company, the advisory practice is at knbrlo.com/advisory.