Consulting, Advising & Software Studio

Leadership, systems, and
AI‑native practices
for modern organizations

Strategic advisory for founders and executives navigating growth, complexity, or transformation. Engineering leadership, organizational design, and AI-driven development practices that actually work.

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Consulting

How we can help

Hands-on consulting for teams that want to move faster, build better, and make the most of AI, without losing sight of what ships.

We work from the inside, not the outside. No slide decks dropped and departed. We embed with your team, build alongside you, and leave lasting capability behind.

Tech Leadership

Fractional CTO and engineering leadership for startups and scale-ups. Strategy, hiring, architecture decisions, and building high-performing engineering cultures, without the full-time overhead.

Fractional CTO Strategy Engineering Culture
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Agile Engineering

Practical, no-ceremony agile for engineering teams. CI/CD pipelines, delivery practices, team rhythms, and DevOps maturity. Focused on outcomes over process theatre.

CI/CD DevOps Delivery
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AI Transformation

From vibe to product. We help teams turn AI experiments into production-ready systems: LLM integration, agentic workflows, and building a culture that ships AI with confidence.

Vibe to Product LLM Integration AI Strategy
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Remote-First Culture

Building for 100% remote from the start. Async communication, distributed team rituals, tooling choices, and international contractor management, so your team operates as one regardless of timezone.

Remote-First Distributed Teams Global Hiring
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Security & Compliance

From audit-ready to certified. We guide teams through ISO 27001, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and CJIS. We build security and compliance into the platform, not bolted on at the end.

ISO 27001 SOC2 FedRAMP / HIPAA DevSecOps
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Industry Experience

We've shipped across gaming, AdTech, retail, public safety, and personal health. From product to engineering to operations, we bring real cross-industry perspective to every engagement.

Gaming AdTech Retail & E-commerce Public Safety Product to Operations
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Principal Advisor

The experience behind the advice

Our consulting is grounded in decades of real-world leadership, not theory.

G. Scott Tomlin

G. Scott Tomlin

Principal Advisor & Founder, Gusto4Tech

Scott is a senior technology leader with over two decades of experience helping companies and nonprofits build, scale, and modernize engineering and operational organizations. His background spans AdTech, gaming, public safety, retail, live events, and food and beverage. This gives him a uniquely broad perspective on how teams operate under pressure, at scale, and in highly regulated or community-driven environments.

He has led engineering at Microsoft, supporting more than $3B in annual ad revenue. He expanded Motorola Solutions' cloud infrastructure team from 14 to over 125 engineers while achieving ISO 27001, SOC2, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and CJIS compliance. He also improved stability and cost efficiency at Drizly by more than 20 percent. Most recently, he led platform engineering across 15 product lines at Versaterm.

A two-time founder with successful exits and a nonprofit founder, Scott advises organizations on engineering leadership, organizational design, and AI-native development practices. He brings clarity, momentum, and modern systems to teams navigating growth or transformation.

Scott is currently a mentor with Venture Mechanics, supporting founders and startups with hands-on guidance and strategic advice.

Cloud & Infrastructure AI & DevSecOps Agile Transformation Security & Compliance Team Scaling Startup Founder Fractional CTO Agent of Change Advertising Technology AI-Native Engineering CI/CD
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Who we work with

From first idea to scaled product

Whether you're a founder writing your first business plan or an enterprise team untangling years of technical debt, we meet you where you are.

Startup

Business plan, first technical hires, MVP architecture, and the foundations to scale without rewriting everything later.

Business Plan MVP Architecture
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Growth Stage

Tech plan and roadmap alignment, team structure, engineering process, and the playbook to grow from 5 to 50 engineers.

Tech Plan Roadmap Scaling
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Enterprise

Scaling plan for legacy modernisation, distributed team enablement, AI adoption, and platform engineering at scale.

Scaling Plan Modernisation Platform
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Products

What we build

Independent apps crafted with care. Each product solves a real problem for real people.

OrbFall

A fast-paced browser game where physics and precision collide. Built as a progressive web app. No install required, plays anywhere.

PWA Game Browser
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Coming Soon

The next Gusto4Tech product is in the works. Follow along on our blog for early previews and devlogs.

In Progress
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Let's talk

Have a question, a collab idea, or just want to say hi?
Are want to transform your engineering org to become AI-native?
Need a fractional CTO, CEO, CIO, COO?
Need help navigating a tough technical challenge or organizational change?
Or just need a few hours of hands-on help?
Drop us a line.
We're a small team and we read every message.

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