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Justin McKelvey | Fractional CTO & AI Consultant
Fractional CTO in Austin — 15 years, 50+ products shipped. Every Tuesday, The AI Leader's Weekly Playbook sends one practical AI play for your business: real builds, real numbers, what actually worked. No hype, no "10 ChatGPT prompts" filler. If you want AI doing real work in your company, this is your Tuesday edge.
Don't refactor. Triage. The order matters. Hi there, You inherited a codebase that's broken. Or you built one that's broken. Either way — you can't ship from it. The most common move is "let me just clean this up first." Don't. Cleaning up is what you do when you have time. Triage is what you do when you don't. And if your business is bleeding revenue or you can't deploy without a panic attack, you don't have time. I call this the Crash Cart. 5 steps. Order matters. Skipping a step is the...
The 3-stage decision matrix non-technical founders need. Hi there, You're a non-technical founder with an idea. You need to ship something. The order matters. If you skip a stage, the next one breaks. 1. Vibe-code the prototype. Use Lovable, Bolt, Replit — whatever's fastest. Don't hire a developer yet. The point is to learn whether the idea has legs, not whether the code is good. Spend $20–200 here, not $20,000. 2. Hire a developer to ship v1. Once the prototype proves people want this...
10 AI tools I actually keep open. Most aren't ChatGPT. Hi there, ChatGPT is the default. It's not the answer to every question. On a normal workday I have at least 4 AI tools open. None of them is just ChatGPT. Here's where each wins: Claude — writing, analysis, anything where I need a clean first draft. Better prose than ChatGPT. Stays in voice. Cursor or Claude Code — coding. ChatGPT is fine for one-off scripts. For actual codebases, you want a tool that has the whole repo in context....