I build the technology your business runs on. Then I run it.
For the Texas owner who runs a real business and is done with technology that breaks. The two things I am asked for most: the AI you were promised, live and working in the business, and the core systems that keep falling over, rescued and owned.
Built, not advised.
The audit is the front door. A paid read on what to build and what it costs, credited to your first month if we go further.
I don’t advise. I build it, and I run it.
Consultants hand you a strategy and leave. Agencies ship and move on. I do the opposite. I build the technology your business runs on, then I stay and run it, so it keeps working long after the invoice.
One senior operator, accountable end to end. You see it working every week. No mystery timelines, no hourly meter, and no team for you to manage. There is no lock-in. You stay because it works.
The pattern - You have been burned before. I know the pattern.
Most owners I meet have lived at least one of these. None of them are your fault.
- The agency that vanished. They shipped, they invoiced, and they disappeared. Now no one knows how it works, and changing anything is a quote and a wait.
- The AI pilot that died. Everyone was excited. It demoed well, then it died in a sandbox and never touched the real business. The budget went with it.
- The system that keeps falling over. The booking system that goes down every weekend, held together by spreadsheets and one nervous contractor you cannot afford to lose.
- The meter that never stops. Every call on the clock, a slide deck where the working software should be, and a bill that grows whether anything ships or not.
I built a national industry from the ground up, and the technology that scaled it.
- 150+
- Live exhibitions, conventions, summits and festivals. Designed, built and run nationally.
- A$60M+
- Revenue generated and managed across those events. Real budgets I grew and answered for.
- 15+ years
- Executive leadership as both CEO and CTO. The owner’s seat and the technical seat at once.
About - Fifteen years in the owner’s chair, ten thousand hours in the build.
I’m Kevin Mack. For fifteen years I sat in the owner’s chair as both CEO and CTO, and I built a national live-events business from the ground up: 150+ exhibitions, conventions and festivals, A$60M+ in revenue, designed, built and run. I know the weight of it firsthand. P&L ownership, board reporting, market timing, making payroll, and putting out the fires myself. Along the way I founded multiple ventures, including a Shopify Build A Business award winner.
I don’t advise. I build the technology a business runs on, then I stay and run it.
I build commerce systems and the revenue engines underneath them, turning a company’s domain logic into working software, SaaS products and private platforms. I integrate AI into real operations and build the agentic systems that do the work around it.
For the last five years I have put more than 10,000 hours into the technical half: custom programming, interface and platform development, applied AI, and integration into the systems a company already runs on, from multi-tenant commerce SaaS to asynchronous semantic-memory agents. I work hands-on with the frontier models from Anthropic and OpenAI, and I bring a company’s data into a structured, secure, integrated foundation built around what the business actually needs.
I built and led the teams as well, and shaped the culture inside them, bringing people onto the technology instead of leaving them behind it, so what I built was always built for the people who had to run it.
I work with owner-led companies that run on software but have no senior technical leader of their own. I solve the whole problem, end to end: built, integrated, trained, and put to real-world use.
What I build - The two things owners ask me for most, and the systems underneath.
One operator, the whole problem. Each of these is a line you can hand over and stop worrying about.
The offer - One senior operator. Not a full-time hire, not an agency.
A full-time hire
A senior six-figure salary
On the books, carried whether the work is there or not, plus equity. They tend to direct the build more than do it.
An agency
A team you manage
Capacity across people you coordinate, scoped to a contract, and gone when it ends. The knowledge leaves with them.
Program
Starts with an audit
One operator who builds it and runs it. Fixed scope, no hourly meter, no lock-in. You see it working every week, and you own what I build.
Every engagement starts with the audit: a paid read on what to build and what it costs, delivered as a document you own, US$500, credited to your first month if we go further. After that, a monthly retainer priced by mandate, not by the hour.
The Program Method - Seven steps, and you watch every one.
Audit, Proposal, Access, Build, Test, Handover, and live and yours. The same process every time, on a dashboard you can see. No mystery timelines.
The Program Method
Your build · Custom platform
Step 4 of 7
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Recent activity
- Proposal approved6 days ago
- Access granted to your systems4 days ago
- Build in progressstarted 3 days ago
- Next up: Test
A preview of the dashboard every client watches. You follow the build step by step, so you always know where it stands.
Tell me what’s breaking, or what you want built.
A short note is enough. It comes straight to me, and I’ll come back with whether an audit makes sense and what it would cost.
Questions - The questions owners actually ask.
- What is a fractional CTO? A senior technical leader who runs your technology for a fixed monthly fee, instead of a full-time executive on a six-figure salary. You get CTO-level judgement on the parts of your business that need it. That is what I do.
- What does the audit actually give me? A clear, written read of your technology: what is working, what is at risk, and exactly what I would do about it. It is the front door, US$500, credited to your first month if we go further.
- Is your fee fixed, or should I expect extra costs? My fee is fixed. What you see is what you get. You cover your own infrastructure, subscriptions and licensing, since those are yours to own no matter who builds on them. Everything I do for the engagement sits inside my fee.
- Do I have to sign a long contract? No lock-in and no minimum term. You stay because it works, not because a contract says you have to.