Assess
We map the product, architecture, team, delivery risks, and the decisions that have been waiting for a senior technical owner.
Kyle McCullough · Fractional CTO · Based in PEI, working globally
Your fractional CTO — who still ships.
I set product and technical direction, repair foundations, and ship critical systems alongside your team — without the full-time executive hire or consultancy handoffs.
Fractional CTO
One senior operator. The whole system.
When the product has outgrown its architecture, features slow down and difficult decisions start piling up. I provide retained technical leadership from product direction through production — with the authority to decide and the ability to build.
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past work
- Ubisoft
- USC + U.S. DoD
- LaGuardia + Newark airports
- Enginable
Based on a farm in Prince Edward Island. Working globally. The work is world-class. The overhead isn't.
A Sawfwair product Open source · MIT licensed
mere.run
Create anything.
Keep it local.
mere.run is the open, local AI runtime at the core of the Mere platform. It generates and understands images, video, 3D, music, speech, text, and Earth observation data on the machines you own.
What this means for your business
I use the Mere platform’s building blocks to put local AI and your data to work in systems you control end to end. Because mere.run is MIT-licensed, there is no vendor lock-in — you own the foundation as well as the outcome.
Build an AI system you own →$
mere.run model capabilities local hardware · readyHow retained leadership works Clarity in week one.
Clarity in week one.
Leadership from there.
Decide
I turn the ambiguity into priorities, an operating plan, and clear technical decisions your team can actually execute.
Lead and ship
I stay embedded as the technical leader and work the critical path alongside your team — from architecture and hiring to production delivery.
The full story
25 years of shipping things that work.
From film sets to the DoD to building AI agents — the path was never linear, but the through-line is the same: make it real, make it work, make it last.
Read the full story →2014–2018 VP Gaming, SpectreVision
2019–2023 Director, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
2023–May 2026 CTO, Enginable
May 2026–present Founder, Sawfwair