Independent Technical Partner for Business-Critical Software Projects
I help business and technical teams make better technical decisions, challenge external vendors, reduce delivery risk, and use automation only where it creates measurable business value.
Vendor oversight
proposals • estimates • technical claims
Project risk reduction
risk register • missing decisions • quality gates
Prototype readiness
architecture • security • maintainability
Technical ownership
roadmap • decision log • handover
Decision
"Is this vendor safe?"
"Is this project drifting?"
"Can this prototype become a real product?"
Plan
Risks, missing decisions, and next steps - in writing.
Execute
Reliability
Quality
Cost
I stay on your side technically: vendors, quality gates, roadmap, automation, and handover.
Vendor oversight
proposals • estimates • technical claims
Project risk reduction
risk register • missing decisions • quality gates
Prototype readiness
architecture • security • maintainability
Technical ownership
roadmap • decision log • handover
Fit
This is for you if...
The right moment is before uncertainty turns into expensive rework, vendor lock-in, or fragile software. AI can help you build faster, but it does not remove the need for technical ownership.
- You are about to sign a software vendor proposal and do not know what to challenge.
- A software project is already running, but the direction, cost, or delivery risk is unclear.
- You built a fast prototype and now need to know whether it can survive real use.
- Your company depends on software, but you do not have a senior technical person on your side.
Services
When to bring me in
Small, concrete interventions before software decisions become expensive.
Project & Vendor Control Check
An independent review of a vendor proposal, estimate, project plan, or technical direction before the next decision becomes expensive.
From €750
- •What looks reasonable vs risky
- •Questions to ask the vendor
- •Missing decisions and acceptance criteria gaps
Technical Operating Partner
Ongoing owner-side technical oversight for companies without a senior internal technical owner.
From €2,500/month
- •Vendor and project meeting support
- •Risk register and decision log
- •Roadmap, estimate, and architecture sanity checks
Prototype Readiness Review
The demo works. I check whether it can safely become a product real users depend on.
From €900
- •Production-readiness checklist
- •Architecture, security, and data risk review
- •Continue / stabilize / refactor / rebuild recommendation
Final scope depends on access, complexity, and how much technical evidence needs to be reviewed.
Prices exclude VAT.
Selected Work
Real systems, not demos
I focus on reliability, measurable outcomes, and clean handover.
Client names and sensitive details are omitted. The work and outcomes are real.
Mini case study
Turning supplier PDFs into usable CO2 data
Context: A team needed CO2 footprint data from many supplier documents to build an environmental tracking platform.
Risk removed: Manual extraction, inconsistent numbers, and unclear vendor responsibilities.
What changed: I assessed what can be automated, designed the extraction pipeline, wrote vendor specs, and defined clear boundaries between vendors (who delivers what).
Outcome: A vendor-ready plan with lower integration risk and controlled build cost.
Mini case study
Speeding up a long certification workflow
Context: A certification process took months and required repeated reading of requirements and gathering evidence across many documents.
Risk removed: Slow throughput, repeated work, and vague vendor deliverables.
What changed: We mapped the workflow, identified where AI can help safely, defined deliverables, and prepared a vendor spec (including inputs needed for funding).
Outcome: A clear execution plan with fewer manual handovers, defined inputs, and a measurable path to reduce time-to-complete.
Mini case study
Getting an organisation ready to use AI safely
Context: An innovation centre wanted to apply AI, but legal questions and data-handling concerns blocked progress.
Risk removed: Stalled adoption and shadow AI use (people using unapproved tools with sensitive information).
What changed: I identified high-value use cases, listed the legal questions for their lawyers, clarified what data can be used where (based on their existing cloud setup), and helped the team build the first internal prototypes.
Outcome: A practical starting point: approved workflows, clear safe-use rules, and working prototypes built in-house.
Featured writing
Practical notes on software control, vendor risk, prototype readiness, and realistic automation.
Delivery system
AI Coding Did Not Fix Slow Delivery. It Exposed It.
Faster coding does not fix weak specs, slow approvals, fragile testing, or unclear release flow. It exposes them.
Read note
Engineering proof
From formula to production in a few hours: what a tiny mortgage app taught me about AI-assisted delivery
A small production-like build showing formula validation, disposable prototypes, constrained AI coding, preview deployments, and senior judgement.
Read note
Applied AI systems
What building an MCP App in a real Deno + Fresh product looks like
Practical build notes from connecting AI chat to a real product workflow instead of keeping it as a demo.
Read noteProcess
How I work
Diagnose
I review proposals, project artifacts, workflows, or prototypes to find the real technical risk.
Decide
I document what is reasonable, what is risky, what is missing, and what to ask next.
Execute & transfer
If needed, I stay as your technical counterpart and help transfer ownership to your team.
About
20 years turning complex systems into predictable delivery
I've worked across telecom QoE research, UX, full-stack engineering, and applied AI. Today I help owners, managers, and founders stay in control of software decisions without hiring a full-time CTO.
Independent technical reviews
Vendor proposals, project risks, and clear next decisions
Architecture for real use
Maintainable systems beyond demos and fragile prototypes
Automation quality control
Automation only where workflow and ownership are clear
Coaching and handover
Playbooks and transfer so teams stay independent
Ing. Bruno Gardlo, PhD
External technical partner (technický garant)
Need someone technical on your side before software gets expensive?
Bring me the proposal, project, or prototype. I'll tell you what looks reasonable, what is risky, and what to decide next.
I reply within 1 business day.