Your product backlog,
shipped continuously.
I help founders and small teams turn stuck software backlogs into reviewed PRs and shipped features, using a supervised AI engineering pipeline. Senior engineering judgment in every critical loop. No full-time hire. No managing freelancers. No vibe-coded chaos.
This is for founders with a real product, real users, and a backlog that keeps slipping.
- ✓You have a working codebase and real users.
- ✓You know what needs to be built. You need execution, not another strategy session.
- ✓Your backlog is growing faster than you can ship.
- ✓You cannot justify, or do not want, a $180K full-time senior hire.
- ✓You want reviewed, production-ready work. Not unmanaged AI output.
You shipped fast with Cursor, Lovable, or Claude Code. It works. It got users. Now those users are asking for things you can't ship fast enough, and the codebase is starting to fight you.
You hired a freelancer or two. Some of their code is in prod. You don't fully trust it. You can't afford the time to rewrite it, but you can't afford the bugs either.
You have a backlog in Linear, Notion, or a Google Doc. It's been growing for months. You know what needs to ship. You just can't get to it.
You considered hiring a full-time senior engineer. $180K+ fully loaded, 3 months to find, 6 weeks to onboard. You don't have the runway or the time.
You've tried managing contractors through Upwork or agencies. The first few weeks felt promising. Then communication drifted, delivery slowed, and you spent more time managing the work than building the business.
You know AI can do some of this. You've used Cursor yourself. It helps. But you're still the bottleneck because you still do every review, every merge, every unblock.
Keep reading.
I've been there. On 50+ projects.
I'm Matt Turley. Twenty years of shipping software, mostly solo, mostly for founders like you. I've been the technical cofounder, the fractional CTO, the rescue engineer, and the last-resort call when someone else's code broke in production. Last year I built OpenClaw: a 20-agent autonomous AI dev pipeline that ships code continuously while I review every output. It's not a side project. It runs my own work every day. Now it runs for clients who want their backlog shipped the same way.
The pipeline creates the leverage. My job is the judgment. What should ship. What should be rejected. Where AI output needs senior correction before it touches your repo. You're not buying a software tool. You're buying my judgment plus an execution system.
Not vibe coding. Supervised engineering.
The market is full of "AI builds your app while you sleep" pitches. They don't work. Code fails review, breaks in production, or gets quietly rewritten by a human later. The pipeline can move fast because it does not merge blindly. Every task is scoped, planned, built in branches, tested, reviewed, and approved before anything ships.
Scope
Acceptance criteria and boundaries agreed before the pipeline touches anything.
Plan
The pipeline proposes the implementation path. I review it before a line of code ships.
Build
Specialized agents work in parallel branches in a 20-agent assembly-line architecture, not a single model guessing.
Verify
Tests, lint, security checks. Broken tests block progress automatically.
QA
I read every diff line by line. Senior engineering judgment, not a rubber-stamp approval.
Ship
Human-approved PR on your repo. Clean handoff, full history, your code stays yours.
Nothing merges automatically. Nothing goes straight to production. You own the repo, the history, and the code.
A quick gut check before you book.
- You have a working product.
- You have users or customers.
- You know what needs to be built.
- Your backlog keeps slipping.
- You want reviewed PRs without hiring or managing another developer.
- You are still validating an idea.
- You do not have an existing codebase. MVP Build →
- You want someone to figure out the whole product strategy. Fractional CTO →
- You need emergency production support. Project Rescue →
- You want unlimited development for a fixed monthly price.
- You cannot define what "done" looks like.
One productized service. Two clear doors.
Start small with a $299 proof-of-work, then graduate into a monthly backlog execution lane if the workflow fits.
Backlog Execution Retainer
A dedicated monthly execution lane for founders with a working product, real users, and a backlog that keeps slipping. Each month we prioritize the highest-value work, move it through scope, implementation, review, and PR, and keep the product moving every week.
- ✓One codebase, one active workstream
- ✓Weekly prioritization, reviewed PRs
- ✓Senior engineering review before merge
- ✓Usually 4 to 8 small-to-medium items per month
- ✓Not unlimited dev. No emergency SLA.
or, book a Retainer Fit Call
First PR Sprint
One small, scoped issue from an existing product. I'll run it through my supervised AI engineering pipeline and deliver either a reviewed PR or a clear technical recommendation if the issue is larger than expected.
10 founding slots available at $299. Standard price will be $499.
Submit a Small Issue →Scale Retainer
Multiple workstreams or repos, higher throughput, faster async response, more proactive roadmap and architecture input, priority scheduling.
Discuss Scale Retainer →Have something bigger than one small PR but not ready for a retainer? Send it over. If it's a fit, I can quote a fixed-scope sprint privately.
One small scoped issue, run through the supervised pipeline.
$299 founding offer.
One small, scoped issue from an existing product. I'll run it through my supervised AI engineering pipeline and deliver either a reviewed PR or a clear technical recommendation if the issue is larger than expected.
Limited to the first 10 qualified projects. After that, the standard price becomes $499.
- A written task description with acceptance criteria
- Read-only access to your repo (collaborator or deploy key). No write access required.
- A Slack, Discord, or email channel for unblockers
- Choice of delivery format: a patch file you apply with git am, a branch in a Matt-owned mirror repo, or a gist with the full diff
- Reviewed by me before you see it
- A 2-minute Loom walking through what changed, what to review, and how to apply it
Your repo stays untouched until you merge it yourself. I never have write access.
- One small scoped issue from an existing product or codebase.
- Read-only repo access first. No write access.
- No emergency or on-call fixes. No large integrations.
- No auth, payment, or security-critical work at this tier unless explicitly approved.
- If the issue is too large, I'll recommend a retainer or a custom fixed-scope quote before starting.
- $299 upfront. No refunds. No credit toward other tiers.
Evidence, not logos.
Matt doesn't run a testimonial carousel. Here's what the pipeline has actually shipped, and for whom.
Solo operator ships weekly features while running the business.
Owner-operated travel-booking SaaS, non-technical founder. Trial client on the pipeline since early 2026. Reviewed PRs land on a sustained weekly cadence the founder previously couldn't hit. Workflows replaced: outsourced dev contractor, half-built internal tools, a freelance sprint that never finished.
The pipeline's first user was me.
Daily production operation. The system works because it works on its own maintainer first.
A scan turned into a $2,750/mo retainer.
Owner-led field-service business, ~2,000 CRM leads getting only an auto-welcome. The 20× human-reply gap became an ongoing engagement.
Straight answers.
Two honest doors.
Neither is a trap.
Start small with a $299 proof-of-work, then graduate into a monthly backlog execution lane if the workflow fits. 10 founding slots available at $299. Standard price will be $499. If you have a backlog but aren't sure what to start with, paste it in. Notion link, Linear URL, Google Doc, or a plain bullet list. I'll reply with something concrete, not a sales call.
Matt