Work with a Fractional CTO and AI-native product studio that knows how to bring products to market. Scalable, secure, and built at light speed.
Limited sprint availability
Building the future, together
“Hechura are great engineers. They're sharp product thinkers. And they're real partners. If you've hired AI engineering talent over the past couple years, you know how shallow the pool still is of people who can build enterprise-grade systems on new primitives. Hechura are the only ones I felt comfortable handing our codebase to so I could focus on growing the business.”
Co-founder, agency, or vibe code. Every option costs you equity, months, or both — before you know whether it works.
50%
of your company·6 months to find one
Half the company, to someone you've known for a quarter.
$150K+
a build·3 months to a v1
Priced by the hour and scoped by the change order — not by whether you ship.
$1,000s
in tokens·2 weeks to a wall
The demo works. Then customers show up, hit the cracks, and don't come back.
Fixed price per sprint, senior people on your product, and everything you build stays yours.
Two-week sprints at a fixed $10K, working a backlog you prioritize. We estimate honestly and usually nail it. No long contracts — your risk is never more than one sprint.
Work directly with a CTO who's been through three exits — EED, DatStat, Usermind — and the AI-native studio he runs with. No junior rotation, no account-manager telephone game.
Code, IP, infrastructure, roadmap — yours from day one. No vendor lock-in, and a documented handoff — repo, infra credentials, runbook — whenever you decide you're done.
$2K per 2-week sprint
Five hours of Chris every sprint — an AI-pilled CTO on strategy, AI adoption, architecture, build-vs-buy, and leading your existing engineers. A standing architecture review each sprint, and Chris in your Slack.
$10K per 2-week sprint
The delivery engine. A senior team shipping with AI development workflows — agentic velocity on the top of your backlog: product, design, engineering.
Many clients run both — Chris leading their engineering team while the studio ships alongside it. Advice that comes welded to delivery. The usual shape: your team keeps today's product healthy, we drive the new platform — and when it's ready, we transition your team onto it.
Zero-to-one builds run the same way — they're just shorter.
You own a backlog. You decide what's on top.
Every two weeks we take the top of it and estimate honestly. Most sprints we nail the estimate; sometimes we get through more, sometimes less.
Sprint review shows you exactly what shipped and why. No surprise invoices — studio sprints are $10K, CTO sprints are $2K, period.
Then you decide: another sprint, or a documented handoff. Drop in. Drop out.
And when production breaks, you don't wait for a sprint boundary — you're in our Slack, and we're in yours.
Four capabilities, one team. From strategy through production.
Validate your tech stack, de-risk your architecture, define your roadmap, and make the build-vs-buy calls that save you months.
Workflows and agents that do real work from day one — built into the product, not bolted on after.
Product experience your first customers trust — designed and shipped sprint by sprint, not queued behind a redesign.
From zero to production — scalable, secure, and built at agentic speed.
A market-research founder needed an enterprise-grade consumer engagement platform built and shipped from the ground up. Hechura took it from concept to production — panel management, digital ethnography, a survey engine, and the AI-powered analysis layer — in two-week sprints, at a fraction of traditional agency cost. It runs real research panels today.
Hechura was started by Chris Maconi, and his two adult sons, to help founders get to market faster.
CEO / CTO & Co-Founder
Three exits as technical leader, from bootstrapped to VC-backed — plus scaling at Qualtrics after the Usermind acquisition. Chris leads the parts that break companies: scale, re-platforms, AI adoption. Regulated data is familiar ground — clinical research at DatStat, legal e-discovery at EED.
We build with AI
Agentic development is how a small senior team delivers at studio scale.
We run on AI
It's how our own operations work — the same systems we build for clients.
We build AI into your product
AI-oriented products and workflows, where they actually pay.
Don't build a startup the old way. Book 30 minutes with Chris and let's ship your vision together.
No headcount. No equity. No lock-in.
