Welcome

I help owners and small teams with web tech projects.

The Problems

We can work on a specific one or a little bit of each.

AI products: Building an AI product in 2026 can be an enormously frustrating experience that takes many iterations.

Technology stack: The "out of the box" advice generated by AI or a misguided first engineering hire can dramatically overcomplicate the founding stack. Add the first few users, and the system can feel fragile pretty quick.

AI assisted coding: Being in the practice of software engineering the past year felt more turbulent than the 15 years before it. Blog posts drop on a daily basis describing a new strategy or dev tool.

Hiring: There are evidence-based practices for reducing risk in a hire. But, what's changed if development is changing? And regardless, what should change when you're a very small team?

The Options

1. Tech Plan Letters

$450

One hour session to review your software development situation followed by one week of emailing. Great way to warm up to each other and get some quick value. —

2. Website Migration

$2,400

Full migration of a CMS / platform-based website (Workflow, WordPress, etc.) to custom code (Astro / Cloudflare Pages). We meet twice and I train you on how to update it with AI-assisted tools (e.g. Claude Code / Workspace, ChatGPT). —

3. Full Review

$8k

Four hands-on working sessions to deep dive on the biggest risks and opportunities on the engineering side of your product. —

4. The "Project"

$75k

Six weeks of me + a peer-network of engineers working directly with you on a full-stack web project (AI agents, offline-capable, e-commerce, etc). —

About

Kevin Doran

From Minnesota, based in Mexico, software engineer + manager the past 15 years. I grew up in homes filled with textbooks, reading and traveling. I studied Computer Sciences & History at UW-Madison and worked in various countries, including Nigeria, Lesotho, Costa Rica, and Germany. In recent years I've been consulting educational & legal technology companies on applied AI products, tech hiring, and e-commerce.

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