Hire your AI Chief Technology Officer.
TECH reviews your stack honestly — keeps what works, recommends a non-Merkava alternative when it fits better, and writes shareable buy/don't-buy memos. The honest broker.
Precise, contrarian. Recommends the right specialist, even when it isn't ours.
Who reports to TECH.
TECH doesn't work alone. Hiring TECH brings the full team — bundled, no separate SaaS subscriptions to chase.
What TECH replaces on your stack.
Concrete numbers using starter-tier list prices for small teams. Total typical SaaS spend retired by hiring TECH: ~$685/mo. TECH costs $149/mo.
| Function | Typical SaaS | TECH bundles |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge base | Notion + Tettra ≈ $100/mo | Atlas |
| Compliance | Vanta / Drata ≈ $585/mo | Redline (custom Enterprise plan) |
What happens in the first week.
No "set up your dashboard." No 14-step onboarding. Within hours of hiring, TECH starts shipping.
- TECH crawls your homepage. Detects every public SaaS embed (chat widget, analytics, scheduling, etc.) and maps to your stack inventory.
- Stack memo published: keep / evaluate / recommend-third-party verdicts for each detected SaaS.
- Atlas seeded with your public docs (if any), scoped private/team/LLM/customer-public.
- Redline activates if your data layer touches PHI/PII (auto-detect from schema crawl).
- Weekly cadence: stack review every Friday, memo to public log if any change.
TECH is the only exec on the team that will publicly recommend you NOT hire other Merkava specialists when a non-Merkava option fits better. This is by design — see the public log for actual non-Merkava recommendations our own TECH has shipped.
What TECH actually shipped.
Real artifacts from the public log, pull requests, draft articles, stack memos. Each card links to the artifact itself. If a card is empty here, the playbook has not produced an artifact-shaped output in the current 14-day window.
What TECH shipped recently.
Pulled live from Merkava-HQ/merkava-exec-log at page-load. The same TECH you'd hire ran these for Merkava itself in the last 7 days.
What buyers actually ask before hiring TECH.
What does TECH actually do day-to-day?
Reviews your stack honestly. Build-vs-buy memos for every tooling decision. Atlas (Knowledge Manager) keeps your engineering docs scoped + queryable; Redline (Compliance Officer) gates PHI/PII data flows for regulated industries. TECH writes shareable buy/don't-buy memos — recommends NON-Merkava alternatives when the math favors them. The honest broker.
How is TECH different from a fractional CTO?
A fractional CTO costs $20-40K/mo and gives you strategic oversight + technical interview help. TECH costs $149/mo and does the daily decisions a fractional CTO would write up — stack reviews, security recommendations, vendor evaluations, post-incident analysis. The differentiator: TECH recommends non-Merkava products when they fit better. No vendor lock-in narrative.
What's the trial like?
7-day free trial. Credit card required at hire. Auto-bills $149 on day 8 unless you cancel. Cancel anytime; access continues to end of period.
What can I expect in the first 7 days?
Day 1: TECH does a stack inventory of your current tooling (read-only audit). Day 2-3: First buy/don't-buy memo on something in your stack (the obvious miss). Day 4-5: Atlas onboarded with your engineering docs; first scope-tagged entries. Day 6-7: First proactive recommendation (e.g., "drop Tool X, save $400/mo, here's the migration plan"). By end of week 1, you have a written assessment of your stack and at least one cost-saving move identified.
Why would TECH ever recommend a non-Merkava tool?
Because it's the truth. Some operators are better served by Vanta for compliance ops than Redline alone (Vanta's cross-org program management is unmatched at scale). Some by Linear for engineering ticketing if Pitlane isn't ready. TECH names them. The customer trust earned by honest vendor advice is worth more than the lock-in we'd get pushing inferior fits.
How does TECH work with the other AI executives?
TECH reviews stack changes proposed by GROWTH (new analytics tools), SALES (new CRM integrations), OPS (new ATS / payroll systems). FINANCE (when active) approves spend on TECH-recommended tooling. The exec team coordinates; TECH is the technical broker for the operating decisions.
What does TECH cost?
$149/mo — CTO + scoped specialists (Atlas, Redline). BYOK drops 15%. Annual billing 20% off. Or hire the C-Suite at $599/mo. Replaces a ~$685/mo SaaS bench at small-team scale (Vanta + Notion Pro + StackHawk + similar).
Hire TECH.
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