Have the senior voice in the room
Fractional CTO, board advisory and technical due diligence. Someone who has run the gear, signed the contracts and answered to a board.
Where packets meet perspective.
I have spent nearly three decades inside service provider and enterprise networks, and I now help operators and the businesses that depend on them make better infrastructure decisions. Transport strategy, peering, automation, and the carrier contracts nobody wants to read. Straight answers, no vendor script.
Sound familiar?
Your transport contract renewed itself and you found out from the invoice.
You are quoting one carrier because that is who you always quote.
Traffic to a customer across town leaves the state and comes back.
You have a very good engineer and no room left in their week.
You are about to buy a network nobody has actually looked at.
Everyone says automate. Nobody says where to start.
Most of these are not hard problems. They are problems nobody in the building has time to own.
What I do
Fewer surprises.
Fewer surprises.
Better decisions.
Build for what is next
Architecture, capacity, automation and where AI actually helps. An operator’s read on what to do first, not a five-year plan.
Spend less on connectivity
Transport, peering and carrier contracts. I quote across carriers, negotiate the terms, run the install and stay on the account for the life of it.
The carrier pays my commission, so this part costs you nothing.
Get a straight second opinion
Designs, vendor proposals, post-incident reviews. No product to sell you and no reason to tell you what you want to hear.
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