by eduardo cruz · fractional cto

How healthy is your
engineering, really?

Four ways to find out — from a 3-minute test to a continuous fractional CTO relationship. Built around the same Throughline context layer that keeps your AI assistants honest about your business.

level 1 · self-test

Throughline Test

free · 3 min

12 yes/no questions for solo founders. No login. Score out of 12 with a one-step fix per "no".

No signup, no jargon
Shareable score badge
Email-me-the-report option
Take the test →
level 2 · auto-scan

Snapshot

free · 30 min

Connect a public GitHub repo. Get 5 plain-language findings about deps, licenses, CI, and ship cadence.

Reads composer.lock + package-lock.json
Flags AGPL/SSPL license risk
Each finding has a one-step fix
Run the Snapshot →
level 5 · continuous

Throughline

$1,800 / month

Weekly working session. Active guidelines synced to your AI assistants via MCP. DD report included first month. Multi-client CTO dashboard.

Weekly 2h working session
Claude Desktop + Claude Code context
4 seats open · Q2 cohort
Start a relationship →
currently running with USH Homestays HelpMatch MosaicNotes
how it works

Start small. Go deeper if it's worth it.

01

Take the free test.

12 yes/no questions. 3 minutes. Score out of 12. The score tells you whether you need a deeper look — or whether you're already in good shape.

02

Run the free Snapshot.

Connect a public GitHub repo. Five real findings from your actual code in 30 minutes. Each one comes with a one-step fix.

03

Book the $497 Founder DD when you want a human in the loop.

A real fractional CTO looks at your code, books, team, process, marketing, and legal. Plain language. Each finding tagged "fix this week / month / quarter". Yours to keep.

proof · last monday

This is what working together looks like.

Mon May 11, 2026 with USH Homestays. Four real conversations, four real outcomes. Every one of them logged, sourced, and tied to a weekly goal.

USH · W20 · live
email · 2 messages · resolved
04:17 → 21:34

SQL antes do deploy (Tier System)

Emerson sent the migration SQL at 04:17. I ran the ALTER TABLE and deployed. Resolved by 21:34. Linked to the AWS-migration weekly goal.

email · bug · deployed
22:24

BUG — HSM Send Message gravando escola errada

Found, fixed, deployed in 1.5h. Single-author. The "HSM admin is a separate codebase" guideline came from this exact pattern.

whatsapp · audio+text · resolved
16:35 → 20:06

Card mis-routed — Sindy's card on personal account

Audio in PT, text in PT, image confirmation back. Resolved in 3.5h. No paraphrasing — the full thread sits in Throughline, sourceable.

deploys · 2 · github
across the day

Production deploys to ush-main · zero rollbacks

Both deploys ran through the new Forge GitHub-only assertion. The dormant Bitbucket remote stayed dormant.

every item links back to its source. nothing is paraphrased.

Three minutes. Twelve questions. Honest answer.

Start with the free test. If your score worries you, run the free Snapshot. If it still worries you, book the $497 Founder DD.