Partner
I build like I own it, because on my biggest projects I do.
I am a full-stack developer and technical partner in Orlando, FL. I am a partner and the lead developer at Forte Strength, CTO of Re-Galito and the founder of MyKanic, and I built each of them alone: the product, the engineering, the payments, the integrations and the tools that run the business day to day.
This page is for founders and co-owners who have a real customer problem, someone who can sell it, and no technical half of the team. It covers what I bring, the ways I work with a founder, and how I decide what to take on. It is written so you can forward it to a co-owner or an investor.
What I bring
The technical half of the team
Product engineering, end to end
An idea becomes something customers can use: the architecture, the database, the pages, sign-in, email and text messages, payments and the launch. Forte Strength, Re-Galito and MyKanic were each built this way, by one person.
Payments and money movement
Card payments through Stripe, webhooks that process a repeated event once, stuck orders that can be retried instead of lost, and admin tools that show every order and fee. Re-Galito turns a card payment into a real prepaid card delivered by email with nobody on the team touching the order.
AI and voice integrations
Voice agents built on Twilio and OpenAI that answer a call and book a real appointment, and website assistants that answer from the facts you give them and never invent a price. The hard part is not the model but the limits around it, and that is where I spend the time.
Operations tooling
The back office that keeps an owner out of the spreadsheet: admin dashboards, bookings that cannot be double-booked, applications, finance tracking, analytics, PDF checklists and reminders by email and text. Forte Strength runs a coaching business from one admin built this way.
I act like an owner
On the products I co-own I think about margin, support load and what breaks at three in the morning, not only the task in front of me, and I bring the same habit to a founder's product. I will argue against a feature that will not pay for itself, and I stay through launch and the months after it.
Engagements
Ways to work together
Pick the shape that fits where the business is; each one says who it suits.
Fixed-scope build
A written scope, a fixed price and a timeline. I build it with a staging link you can open from the first week, and you end up with a working product, not a prototype. Payments, sign-in, email, integrations and the launch are in scope from day one.
Best forA founder who knows what the first version has to do and wants it shipped in weeks, not quarters.
Fractional CTO retainer
A set number of days each month where I own the technical side: the architecture, the build, vendors, the roadmap and the decisions in between. You get a CTO's judgment and a developer's output without a full-time salary or a co-founder's share.
Best forA business with revenue or funding that needs ongoing technical ownership and someone to make the calls.
Equity or revenue-share partnership
I come in as the technical co-founder or partner, build and run the product, and share in what it earns. Forte Strength, Re-Galito and MyKanic all work this way. It is the engagement I am most careful about saying yes to.
Best forA founder who already sells, with customers or clear demand, and wants a technical partner for the long run rather than a contractor.
How I decide
What I look for before saying yes
A real customer problem. Someone has it today, it costs them money or time, and I can see how the product removes it.
An owner who sells. You bring the customers, the industry and the relationships; I bring the product. If nobody on the team can sell, the software will not save it.
A first version that can ship in weeks. If the smallest useful version takes a year, the plan needs work before the code does.
Honest numbers. Show me what you know and what you are guessing about customers, pricing and costs. Rough is fine. Invented is not.
Skin in the game on both sides. I put in time and judgment; you put in cash, traction or a working business. Equity with nothing behind it is not a partnership.
Probably not a fit
When I am the wrong partner
An idea with no one to sell it. I build the product; I do not build the whole business around it on my own.
Work for equity with no cash and no traction. If the business cannot pay anything and has no customers yet, I am the wrong partner at this stage.
Rebuilding a working system for its own sake. If what you have runs and earns, I will tell you to keep it and fix the part that hurts.
Next step
Have a business that needs its technical half?
Tell me what you sell, who buys it and what the product has to do. I will say honestly whether I am the right partner for it.