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First-Time Founder
No technical co-founder. You need everything done — and done right the first time.
Idea → MVP
01 / Who we work with
Three kinds of founder. One playbook for each.
Founders make buying decisions on trust — positioning, proof, named team — not feature lists. We design our engagement around the stage you're actually in.
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Growth-Stage Founder
Product-market fit, now scaling. Tech debt, cloud cost, and hiring gaps are slowing you down.
Post-PMF
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Serial Entrepreneur
You've done this before. You want trusted execution — not vendor management.
Repeat builder
02 / What we do
Six service pillars. One accountable team.
Whatever stage you're at, your technology problem fits in one of six buckets — and usually more than one. Irishvar covers all six under a single point of accountability.
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Discovery & Strategy
Make the right tech bets before you write a line of code.
Read more →02Product Engineering
Ship MVPs and production systems that don't need a rewrite at series A.
Read more →03Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud that scales when you do, costs what it should, and never wakes you at 3am.
Read more →04Data & Analytics
Decisions from data, AI where it earns its keep.
Read more →05Security & Compliance
Enterprise-ready before your first enterprise deal.
Read more →06Run & Support
On-call humans for the systems that keep your business alive.
Read more →03 / Cadence
From requirement to MVP.
When you bring us a technology requirement, here is the timeline you can hold us to. AI compresses the engineering cycle. Senior architects guide every gate. Both at every step.
1 day
Discovery call
Listen, ask, sketch. We write back what we'd run, in plain English.
1 week
Feasibility report
Architecture sketch, scope, risks. What we'd build, what we wouldn't.
1 month
Working prototype
AI-driven, end-to-end, demoable. Real users see it.
100 days
Production MVP
Real customers, real data, real architecture. Hand-over to Run optional.
04 / How we engage
Pick the shape that fits today. Reshape it tomorrow.
Three engagement models, designed to flex from a 0.2 FTE advisor through to a fully embedded squad. You can move between them as your company grows — same people, same accountability.
Model 01
Advisory fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership, on a fraction of the cost. Architecture calls, hiring help, vendor decisions, board-ready reviews.
Model 02
Build project / squad
Embedded engineers shipping product. From a two-person MVP team to a full squad with PM, design, and SRE coverage.
Model 03
Run managed retainer
L1–L3 support, SRE, incident response, and continuous improvement on the systems that keep the business running.
Across all three
Cash, equity, or both.Founder picks the mix. We're happy to trade rate for skin in the game.
Cost-based pricing.We charge what it costs us to do the work — not what the market will bear.
Priced at cost. Aligned through equity.Low cash. Long alignment. Real skin in the game.
How we work →05 / Proof
Founders who chose us — and the stories that came out of it.
We describe engagements by stage and sector, not by name. If you'd like to talk to a reference founder, ask in the discovery call.
Pre-seed · Commodities · B2B
“Sensor-instrumented boxes, an ERPNext backbone, and a tamper-evident audit trail — every other vendor told us to pick one. They built all three, and the demo we put in front of buyers actually held up.”
Seed · Travel · Consumer
“We didn't want an AI demo, we wanted bookings. Their itinerary builder refuses to suggest anything that isn't actually for sale — and the rest of the stack is boring on purpose, which is exactly what we asked for.”
Seed · Sports · Multi-platform
“Native iOS, native Android, Angular on the web, one Laravel API behind everything. Same squad, one named lead. We stopped having multi-vendor calls and started shipping.”
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you how we can help.
A 30-minute discovery call. We listen, we ask, we sketch. If we're not the right fit, we say so and point you somewhere better.
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