Fractional CIO & CTO
What are you actually trying to build?
I’m Dave Montag. Before we set sails, we anchor to why. Then we chart the shortest honest course to it.
Calls, not decks. Questions before answers.
How I work
- 01
Take bearings.
What's actually true about where you are — not what the deck says. The first conversation is listening, not pitching.
- 02
Find true north.
The why underneath the roadmap. Every decision downstream gets easier when this is clear — and almost every expensive mistake traces back to skipping it.
- 03
Set sails.
The shortest honest path — not the prettiest one, not the loudest one. Designed to your constraints, not pulled from a shelf.
Founders, executives, and boards — from pre-seed to post-IPO — when the tech decisions feel heavier than the team alone can carry.
Off-the-shelf playbooks. Quarterly transformation kabuki. Slide-deck theater. If you need a PowerPoint jockey, I'm the wrong call.
Three honest questions. A reply from my real inbox, not a form. A 30-minute call if the fit feels right to both of us.