What agencies charge $80K for, I ship in weeks.
I’m Joey — a fractional CTO in Toronto. One senior builder, fixed price, no juniors, no handoffs. I build new products from scratch and make existing ones work better.
I’m Joey — a fractional CTO in Toronto. One senior builder, fixed price, no juniors, no handoffs. I build new products from scratch and make existing ones work better.
You already know the answer. Here’s why it matters.
The person on your first call is the person writing the code. Former Fortune 500 analytics director. No juniors, no handoffs, no offshore surprises.
You know the total cost before I write a line of code. Weekly updates on a live staging site. No hourly billing. No scope creep invoices.
AI-native development changed what one focused builder can ship. I use modern tooling end-to-end — architecture, code, testing, deployment — and pass that speed directly to you.
Build. Improve. Advise.
New products from scratch. I take your idea from napkin to production — architecture, code, deployment — in weeks.
Full-stack web apps, AI integration, and everything you need to get in front of real users. Fast.
Booking systems, client portals, dashboards, workflow automation — built around your operations, not a template.
Analytics baked in from day one. Attribution, A/B testing, dashboards that tell you what’s working and what to cut.
Your product is live. It needs senior technical attention. I embed into your team and make what you have work better.
Performance fixes, scaling, tech debt cleanup, architecture reviews. The judgment that prevents expensive rewrites.
You know what your users need next. I ship it into your existing codebase without leaving a mess.
AI that plugs into how your business actually runs. If your data can’t leave Canada, I run it privately in Toronto.
The right technical decisions before they become expensive mistakes. Architecture, hiring, vendors, roadmap.
Build vs. buy, vendor evaluation, stack selection, roadmap. These decisions compound. Getting them right saves you a year.
Interview design, candidate screening, technical evaluation. I help you build the team so you don’t need me forever.
A technical narrative you can defend to investors. Architecture docs, scalability plans, answers to the questions VCs always ask.
Shipped. Live. Used by real people.
Client Projects
Challenge: EdTech startup, no technical co-founder. Needed a speech analysis platform built from zero.
What I did: Full platform architecture, AI-powered speech analysis, analytics infrastructure, fundraising support.
Result: Platform live. Speech pathology professionals using it daily. Team fundraising with a working product, not a deck.
Challenge: Therapist launching a group practice. Off-the-shelf tools didn’t fit. Needed a custom platform and growth strategy.
What I did: Custom multi-tenant practice management — booking, video, clinical docs, patient portal. Plus SEO, Google Ads, and a 5-year financial model.
Result: Platform live. Booking, video, and patient records unified. Architecture scales from solo to multi-clinician without a rebuild.
Products I've Built
Challenge: Running a solo business across 8+ disconnected tools. Every context switch has a cost.
What I built: A unified AI operating system. 47 custom tools across 10 domains — calendar, email, finances, health, tasks, time tracking — all through natural language.
Result: Used daily as a working replacement for a human EA. Zero context-switching. The AI takes action, not just answers questions.
Challenge: Ontario farmers needed real-time crop health insights from satellite imagery. No affordable tool existed.
What I built: Full-stack ag-tech platform. Next.js frontend, Python satellite pipeline (Sentinel-2), auto-scaling Cloud Run workers, BigQuery analytics.
Result: Live platform processing real satellite imagery. Compute scales to zero when idle. Architecture handles thousands of fields.
Toronto, Ontario
joey@twentyfiftysix.com
Before TwentyFiftySix, I spent six years as an analytics director at a Fortune 500 consulting firm — building data platforms, product analytics systems, and AI pipelines for clients in automotive, banking, pharma, entertainment, and e-commerce. Large-scale systems, real production constraints, serious data.
I went independent because the math stopped making sense for founders. The same platform an agency charges $80K and six months for, I build in weeks — because I use AI-native tooling across the entire stack, and there’s no overhead between you and the code.
Stack: React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, GCP, Firebase, Supabase, Vercel. I pick the right tool for the job, not my favourite tool.
"We got three agency quotes — $45K to $90K, four to six months. Joey scoped it, built the full platform in five weeks, and we launched for under $12K. The practice management system he built handles booking, video sessions, clinical docs, and patient records. We’re adding our second clinician this spring and the architecture didn’t need a single change."
"We had no CTO, no technical team, and a demo day deadline eight weeks out. Joey built our AI speech analysis platform from zero — architecture, backend, frontend, deployment — and we walked into our accelerator pitch with a working product, not a slide deck. That’s what got us our pre-seed round."
"I needed a website and booking system before the spring season started. Joey had the whole thing live in three weeks — online booking, schedule management, horse sales listings. I went from managing everything over text messages to having clients book themselves. It paid for itself in the first month."
30 minutes. No pitch. You leave with a clear plan — or I’ll tell you I’m not the right fit.