// The deal
- Free. No equity. No invoice. No catch.
- Senior eyes. Twelve startups. Decades of shipping.
// How
Email or chat. Same back-and-forth.
Send the thing — repo, doc, screenshot, audio note. We respond in 24h.
sf@manl.bot// What we help with
Can you review my architecture?
Yes. Scaling, cost, blast radius. A second pair of senior eyes on the system diagram.
How do we get to production safely?
What breaks at 10K users — security holes, rate limits, backpressure, observability, graceful degradation.
Our AWS bill is too high, can you help?
We dig into the bill line by line. Most surprises are S3 lifecycle, NAT gateways, CloudWatch ingest, or idle databases.
How do we get organic distribution?
We ran a zero-ad content engine that hit 12M organic views. We can walk through the hooks, formats, and signals that actually travel.
Can you help us ship an AI agent?
Bedrock, Claude API, or OpenAI. Production prompts, eval loops, cost ceilings, observability — not a vibe demo.
Mobile — App Store, Play, Stripe?
Shipping flow, TestFlight, EU DMA third-party payments, Stripe over IAP for max margin, review survival.
Stripe billing setup?
Subscriptions, EU VAT, merchant of record, dunning flows, failed-payment recovery, webhook reliability.
First engineer hire?
What to look for, what to avoid, where to source, how to interview, equity ranges.