Guides on technical leadership and AI
Practical, current guides on fractional CTO work, AI agents, Claude Code, MCP and private AI, written from production experience.
What is a fractional CTO? Role, cost and when to hire one
What a fractional CTO is, what they do, what they cost, how they compare to a full-time CTO, and how to know when your startup or business needs one.
GuideSelf-hosted LLMs: a practical guide to on-prem AI for businesses
How to run a self-hosted or on-premise LLM for your business: when it makes sense, which open models and serving tools to use, hardware and GPU sizing, costs, security and common mistakes.
GuideCursor vs Claude Code: which AI coding tool should you use?
Cursor vs Claude Code compared by a CTO who uses both daily: how they work, strengths, pricing model, team use, and which to pick for your workflow. Plus: is Claude Code free?
GuideClaude Code agent teams: how they work and when to use them
A practical guide to Claude Code agent teams: how to enable them, how the lead, teammates, task list and messaging work, how they differ from subagents, costs, limits and best practices.
GuideHow to build an MCP server and add it to Claude Code
Step-by-step: build a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Python or TypeScript, test it with MCP Inspector, add it to Claude Code and Claude Desktop, and design tools models use well.
GuideAI agent vs agentic AI: what's the difference?
AI agent vs agentic AI explained in plain English: definitions, the spectrum from chatbots to autonomous agents, real business examples, and how to decide what your company needs.
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