Hands-on technical direction
A lead who reads the code, unblocks hard integrations, and owns salvage-versus-rewrite calls with your team.
Technical leadership & uplift
Hands-on senior direction for teams carrying AI-accelerated code: design and review sessions, hard calls in the repository, and standards your engineers can own after we leave.
Founder-led. Fixed scope. Ownership left with your team.
The Problem We Solve
AI volume and hiring freezes multiply code while the shared design language erodes. Reviews rubber-stamp output, architecture debates restart every sprint, and recovery stalls when the external lead steps away. We make direction, review practice, and lightweight standards visible so capability stays with the people who remain.
Who This Is For
- CTOs and engineering managers who need senior technical direction now, without waiting on a permanent hire to ramp.
- Teams recovering AI-accelerated delivery that need modelling and review discipline, not only more coding capacity.
- Leaders who want design sessions, a clear review bar, and hard calls (salvage versus rewrite) owned by the people who stay.
What We Deliver
Leadership in the codebase and review tools you already use, not a strategy deck.
Design and review sessions
Structured design on real tickets so good decisions become the team default, not one senior enforcing every PR.
Standards that stick
Light conventions for boundaries, tests, and pull requests that keep AI output honest without process theatre.
Skills transfer
Pairing and written decisions so the next hard call does not wait on one contractor or founder.
How We Work
Fixed-scope, alongside recovery or modernisation when needed. Week one: observe how design and review actually run, join critical paths, and agree a small standards set and session cadence. Success is what your engineers can do next week without us in the room.
What You Leave With
- A team that can run the recovery roadmap without constant external steering.
- A shared design vocabulary and review bar, with hard-call reasoning written down.
- Capability spread across the team, so ownership survives when the engagement ends.
Discuss your team situation
Outline the team, the technical state, and what must change. We reply with where senior leadership helps most. Free, no obligation.
Or email info@mayordomo.co.uk with a short outline.