Pre-build technical advisory
The expensive mistakes happen before anyone writes code.
Independent technical guidance for founders on the calls that come first: architecture, stack, and who builds it. So you don’t spend months and real money finding out the hard way.
A compass never points quite where you need to go. Every one of them reads a few degrees off, and the correction has a name. Working out the size of that gap, before you commit to a heading, is the whole job.
Tell me what you’re building
A few lines is plenty to start. I read every one of these myself.
Or reach me directly
No deck, no discovery call you have to sit through first. Tell me roughly what you have in mind and I’ll tell you what I’d want to know next.
Previously built for
Ways to work together
Where most people start
Pre-Build Deep-Dive
A focused, few-week engagement to land the decisions that matter before you write code: architecture, stack, and build-vs-buy. You walk away with a clear plan to hand to whoever builds it.
Start hereAnd afterwards
Ongoing Advisory Retainer
For founders who want continued technical judgment past the initial deep-dive: an ongoing, fractional-CTO-style relationship you can lean on as decisions keep coming up.
How I work
Independent, before you commit
Red Eye Development is primarily me, Greg, working directly with you. When an engagement calls for it I bring in specialists (security, infrastructure, whatever the decision actually needs), but I stay the person you talk to throughout.
I’m not a dev shop and I’m not pitching a build. That matters: nobody here gets paid more if the answer is a bigger project. My job is to help you make the pre-build call correctly, so the money you spend building only gets spent once.
Is this you?
- You’re non-technical, or your team doesn’t have a technical leader yet
- You haven’t started building, or just started, and need to decide how
- The decision is architecture, stack, or who builds it, not marketing or sales
- Any industry, any funding stage: this is about where you are, not what you do
Selected past work
Seven years of building for other people, which is where the judgment came from.
- HammesMulti-site CraftCMS platform serving Hammes Company and Hammes Partners, with an AWS-backed asset pipeline.CraftCMS · Multi-site · AWS
- Trinity TowersA dedicated property brand site built as part of the same multi-site CraftCMS platform as Hammes.CraftCMS · Multi-site
- MeetRosyBrand website built on CraftCMS with a Vue front end.CraftCMS · Vue
- AppGateCraftCMS-built website for AppGate.CraftCMS
- Crow HoldingsCorporate website for Crow Holdings, a national real estate investment firm.Corporate site
- ExxonMobilTwo internal CraftCMS platforms publishing sector insights to ExxonMobil employees, behind gated access with separate staging and production environments.CraftCMS · Internal platform
- eSentireBuilt eSentire.com on CraftCMS, then led the hiring effort that brought a full-time person in-house to own it going forward.CraftCMS · Hiring
Get in touch
Tell me what you’re building
A few lines is plenty to start.
If you’re about to hand a large check to a dev shop and something about the plan hasn’t sat right, that feeling is usually worth a conversation. It costs a lot less to check now than to find out in month five.
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