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title: "Work with me"
description: "How I work with founders and teams, usually as a part-time technical leader or the first builder, in the early figuring-out-what-it-is phase."
date: 2026-05-05
canonical: https://brentfitzgerald.com/work/
---


I've been building software for 2.5 decades. The part I keep coming back to is the early part: figuring out what the thing actually is, then building the sharpest, simplest version of it. Repeat.

Usually I come in as a part-time (aka "fractional") technical leader or the first builder. Though I'm also just as happy to be a kind nerd in the room. I often work with founders in their first few years, though I do great with established teams too. 

What I bring to my work:

- **Nailing fundamentals.** Focus on the stuff that compounds: honest communication, real problems and solutions, solid tech.

- **Being a teammate.** Model the habits that turn a group of people into a team. Catch the mistakes others might miss, because I've made them myself.

- **Shipping the thing.** Shape a hunch into software, get it in front of real people. Again and again.


Who might you be? Well, I tailor the role to your stage. I'm a particularly good match for:

- **Early teams** who want to cement foundational values like candor, curiosity, and honesty

- **Founders** making early strategic and technical decisions

- **Creators** who want to move fast to get their ideas in front of real people

- **Humanists** building things to genuinely help people

Maybe not a fit: Weyland-Yutani interstellar crews.


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