An established engineering team ready to work better. A product with its first paying customers and growing technical debt.
I help you improve the code, tools, processes, and working habits that will carry you into the next stage.
Start with a free, 20-minute introduction.
The next step depends on where you are.
For established engineering teams
Your engineers know the product. You want to improve how they build it: better use of AI, more effective testing and review, smoother delivery, and stronger collaboration.
We start with your team's current experience, including little or no use of AI. I work with your engineers and leaders on real tasks, so better tools and practices become shared habits.
For early products with paying customers
You got a product into customers' hands with AI. Now changes take longer, fixes introduce regressions, and the code is getting harder to work with.
I help you understand where the strain is and introduce the engineering foundations your product needs: useful tests, clearer structure, safer releases, and a way to keep technical debt manageable.
$400 / 90-minute working session
Come alone or bring someone from your team. Show me what's happening; you don't need to diagnose it first.
We agree the question before you book. In 90 minutes, we might trace a bug, add a test, or try an AI workflow on real work. You leave with findings and a next step. Any further work is agreed separately.
I'm Rick Gorman. I've built production software at thoughtbot, Common, and healthcare startups. I also build with agents myself. My work brings that experience into your company, with attention to both the software and the people building it.
We look at how work moves from an idea into customers' hands. That includes the code, the tools, the handoffs, and the team's experience. We identify what's getting in the way and choose a useful place to start.
I work directly in the code and delivery workflow alongside you and the people building the product. That might mean strengthening tests, improving how agent-written changes are scoped and reviewed, or putting a better release process into use. You help shape the approach.
We check whether the change helps using measures we agree—such as time spent on reviews or repeat bugs. Decisions get documented, and useful practices become part of everyday work so you can keep improving them.
Ongoing consulting starts at $5,000/month.
I work alongside you on agreed priorities, implement improvements, and help the people using them put those changes into everyday practice. We can begin with one workflow or part of the product. Before starting, we agree the scope, fee, time needed from each of us, and a review date to decide what comes next.
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We'll talk through your challenge, check fit with your tools and codebase, and agree what to prepare if a working session would help.
Let's talk →Free, 20-minute introduction. A brief description is enough to start.