Senior tech leadership when the decisions can't wait.

Fractional CTOs, CPOs, and Search & AI Builders for founders, small teams, and PE-backed operators who need the right call now. Led by Grant Ingersoll, former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation and co-founder of Lucidworks.

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Where Do You Need Help Most?

Four ways founders, operators, and investors put Grant and the Develomentor team to work.

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Founders & Small Teams

You know something is off with your engineering team — or you've built something with AI tools and need to take it to production. We embed senior tech leadership at the inflection points that define your company's trajectory.

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AI, Search & NLP Leadership

When your product roadmap depends on search, NLP, or ML, you need a CTO who can lead those initiatives from architecture to production — not one who defers to vendors.

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M&A Due Diligence

Before you sign, know what you're actually buying. Independent technical due diligence that surfaces hidden debt, architectural risk, and engineering team dysfunction — before the deal closes.

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Mission-Driven Organizations

Non-profits and purpose-driven organizations need senior technical leadership as much as any company — but full-time executive costs rarely fit the budget. Senior tech leadership scaled to your mission.

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Our experience is your advantage

Grant Ingersoll — former CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation and co-founder/CTO of Lucidworks — leads Develomentor's team of fractional executives.

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"I can think of no better person to teach a class on search with machine learning than Grant Ingersoll. Through his open source work on the Apache Solr search engine and as a founder of the Apache Mahout machine learning framework, Grant has done more to teach developers about the technology concepts and applications of ML and search than anyone in the business."

Adam Cheyer , Co-Founder of Siri

"Grant and team have played a critical role in reshaping development at Franchise Business Review via critical hiring decisions, a focus on planning and process, and a deep sense for both technical and business goal alignment. Grant and Vivek’s product roadmap workshop has played a key role in shaping the future of our products and how we deliver to customers."

Eric Stites — CEO of Franchise Business Review

"Develomentor has been a transformative partner for Iron Matt, helping to modernize our brand and online presence and automating our family application process with their fractional CMO and fractional CTO expertise. By replacing manual workflows with a custom-built solution, they’ve allowed us to focus more on our mission and get critical support to families faster. For high-level strategy and technical execution that truly scales impact, Develomentor has been a critical partner."

Kelly Larson — President of Iron Matt

"Working with Grant Ingersoll as our fractional CTO was transformative. His vast expertise combined with his unique ability to seamlessly move between technical and business topics were critical to us hiring the right team, building our next generation application and controlling our costs. His team’s product roadmap workshop played a critical role in defining our development work and making certain our dev teams knew what to execute on and, more importantly, why to execute on it."

Louis Carter — CEO of Most Loved Workplace

"Grant and Vivek helped us at a critical transition time in our business. We were preparing for a high profile new product launch and both our CTO and CPO were transitioning out of the firm. They came in, quickly understood our business, and rolled up their sleeves as true partners to us as we transitioned leadership without missing a beat."

Michael Roth — Co-CEO of Next Street

"Grant’s arrival at Charity Navigator bridged the gap between our departing CTO and the arrival of a new one. We were 3-months away from completely replatforming our website, unifying our two ratings systems, deploying a new CRM, and launching into the 2022 Giving Season. It was hectic. Grant’s calm, expertise, and broad knowledge significantly contributed to our success. In addition to mentoring our engineering teams, he successfully interfaced with external technical consultants, kept me and others on the executive team current on progress, and ultimately, with our new CTO, once she joined us, enabled us to have a successful and timely launch. Grant is a terrific technical leader with strong business acumen that any organization could rely upon as their fractional CTO."

Michael Thatcher — CEO of Charity Navigator

"Engaging Develomentor was hugely valuable to our team. Grant Ingersoll’s deep expertise and ability to collaborate with our Product and Engineering teams helped focus our project, identify options, and ultimately define a technical strategy that best aligns with the needs of our business and customers."

Nick Burling , VP of Product Management, Nasuni

"Grant is an established expert in the area of Search, Machine Learning, and AI! He has the mind of a researcher, an educator and has demonstrated the applicability of these deep topic areas into real-world products used by enterprises. What better way to learn than from someone who is a published author, a hands-on practitioner, and an industry expert?"

Sameer Maggon , CEO of SearchStax

"Grant’s technical leadership at BlueMark has been transformative. He helped turn our initial product vision into a concrete strategy, navigated the complexities of hiring and managing an expert outsourced engineering team, and architected our approach to leveraging AI throughout our product. Grant is a rare leader who understands both the deep technical nuances of AI and the strategic needs of a growing business. We are in a significantly stronger position today thanks to his guidance."

Sarah Gelfand — President of BlueMark

"Grant has a unique combination of breadth and depth in the search space, from designing a search solution for performance and stability at scale, while also having deep expertise in the internals of the engine, such as text analysis, relevancy tuning, query optimization, and index design. You won’t find a better teacher to provide a solid foundation in the theory as well as how to apply it when building real world search applications."

Tim Potter , Search Engineer, Apple

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