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Fractional CTO & principal software architecture

Technology needs an owner, not another advisor.

NLC takes ownership of the roadmap, architecture, engineering team, vendors, and delivery while staying close enough to the code to know what is actually happening.

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Decision logThis month
  • Roadmap priorities with ownershipAgreed
  • Architecture review with the developersRevised
  • Vendor estimate: 14 weeksChallenged
  • Pull request: payments integrationApproved
  • AI-generated reporting moduleRefactor first
  • Production issue: failed syncsRoot cause found
CTO note

Hold the vendor contract until the data model is settled.

What we do

Software, marketing, and a CTO when you need one.

Each one stands on its own. Hire us to run your ads without ever using our software, or bring in a Fractional CTO for a single decision.

Technology leadership & architecture

Fractional CTO

Senior technology ownership without another full-time executive.

  • Ownership of the roadmap, architecture, and delivery
  • Leadership for internal teams and outside vendors
  • Hands-on help when the work reaches the code

Close enough to the code to know whether the plan will work.

See how we take ownership

Built and run by us

Marketing

Paid advertising on Google, Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok, with the creative, landing pages and reporting behind it.

  • Paid Growth: one platform, $1,800 a month
  • Growth + Content: up to two platforms plus content, $2,800 a month
  • Full Growth: a multi-channel program, $3,800 a month

Month to month, no setup fee, and ad spend billed separately.

See marketing packages

Platform examples

What we build looks like this.

Every portal is different because every business is different. These are modeled on real platforms we've delivered, with details changed and the idea intact.

Case study · Property restoration

From spreadsheets to one system that runs the business.

A property-restoration company was running on spreadsheets. Leads, jobs, budgets, and referral sources were all tracked by hand in separate files. We replaced it with one portal.

ops.tidewater-restoration.com
ProjectsLive sync
Search projects…Department: AllStatus: Active
ProjectStatusCurrent milestoneDepartmentEstimateBudgetMargin
M. Alvarez · ReconstructionIn ProgressSubcontractor agreement sentReconstruction$1,470$1,000$470
S. Clark · WaterIn ProgressInvoice package sentWater$1,930$700$1,230
C. Smith · ReconstructionIn ProgressProcess onboarding completeReconstruction$7,332$3,200$4,132
A. Novak · WaterScheduledAdjuster review scheduledWater$2,104$465$1,639
R. Mills · BiohazardIn ProgressThird-party review processBiohazard$14,865$855$14,010
  • Leads get worked and convert into projects without anyone re-entering data
  • Every job runs on a milestone template, so nothing gets skipped between mitigation and rebuild
  • Budget vs. actual and projected collections live on every job, with margin locked in monthly
  • Every job records where it came from, and the system flags any job missing its referral source
  • Visits to referral partners are logged with their costs, so they can see what winning the work actually costs

Questions that used to take a day of spreadsheet work are now one screen: what is in the pipeline, what did we win, what is our margin this month, which relationships actually produce jobs.

Case study · Medical billing

Every claim in a state, not in someone's head.

A multi-office medical billing operation was tracking patient billing across locations in spreadsheets and shared notes. Nothing showed the team what was actually actionable today.

billing.northstar-medical.com
Patients in Workflow
To bill today$2,170
Claims queued6
Auto-scrub6:00 PMruns nightly
Account #PatientInsuranceScrubTo billState
600412L. Whitfield✓▶ Scrub now$620Ready to scrub
600398M. Okafor✕▶ Scrub now$0Awaiting insurance
600441T. Alvarez✓▶ Scrub now$1,240Ready to scrub
600425K. Osei✓▶ Scrub now$310Ready to scrub
600389E. Nakamura✕▶ Scrub now$0Awaiting insurance
  • Every patient moves through defined billing states instead of living in a spreadsheet row
  • Insurance verification status is visible at a glance, per office
  • Claims scrub on a schedule, or on demand when a biller wants them out now
  • Missing documentation gets flagged before it becomes a denied claim

The team opens one screen and sees exactly what needs to happen today: what's ready to bill, what's waiting on insurance, and what's missing paperwork.

Process

From first call to software you own.

  1. 01

    A call about the manual work

    The systems you run and the work that happens by hand between them. You get a straight answer: build it, buy something that already exists, or leave it alone.

  2. 02

    Two weeks of discovery

    A paid, fixed-fee plan: what to build, what it connects to, and what it costs. The plan is yours whether or not we build it.

  3. 03

    Built in releases

    Fixed price, shipped in focused releases, so the most valuable part of the operation improves first instead of everything landing at the end.

  4. 04

    Then it keeps moving

    Hosting, support, and new reports and automations as the business changes, on a monthly partnership. The code and the data are yours.

Leadership

Meet Nick & Nadiia.

Nick Chiafullo, President of NLC Consulting

Nick Chiafullo

President, NLC Consulting

You didn't start your business to babysit software that almost works. For nearly 20 years I've built enterprise software and led development teams as a Fractional CTO, and what clients hire me for is judgment: the right solution, kept maintainable, owned from idea to production. Let's talk →

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Nadiia Rybak, Director of Growth & Strategy at NLC Consulting

Nadiia Rybak

Director of Growth & Strategy

Nadiia runs marketing at NLC: the paid campaigns, the creative, the landing pages, and the reporting, for NLC and for the clients whose marketing we manage. Everything she runs is measured, A/B-tested, and kept or cut on what it produces.

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Start the conversation

Tell us how your business runs today.

The software you need, the marketing you want run, or the technology decision in front of you. We'll tell you which of these fits, or that none of them does.

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