Founder Technical Partner

The technical half of your venture

A senior engineer — and a founder myself — in your corner each month. I help you steer what to build and what to skip, build it, and bring real AI leverage to your venture, without you needing to hire a full-time CTO or a development team.

This is a partnership, not contracting. You're not buying hours or a stack of code — you're buying progress, clarity, and the confidence that you're building the right thing.

Who this is for

You run a real business — a coaching, consulting, clinical, or expert practice that already earns — and you're turning your expertise into a software product or a smarter way of working. You don't have an engineering team, and you don't want the cost or risk of building one.

What you need is a trusted technical partner who has done this many times before: someone to make the calls, build the things, and keep you from spending money on the wrong product.

Sound familiar?

A strong business, but no technical co-founder and no obvious way to get one.

You know you should be using AI, but you don't know where to start or what's even possible.

You're worried about wasting thousands on the wrong agency, the wrong developer, or the wrong product.

You can't always tell what's quick, what's hard, and what's a trap.

What a partnership gives you

  • Clear direction

    I help you steer what to build, what to skip, and what to build it with — so you're not pouring time and money into the wrong thing.

  • The build itself

    Your site, your lead funnel, AI agents built on your expertise, integrations — the important things get built, and built quickly, because experience and AI do a lot of the heavy lifting. You're paying for progress, not billable hours.

  • AI where it actually helps

    I find the places AI gives your venture real leverage — and ignore the places it doesn't.

  • Always in your corner

    Regular strategy calls and always-on access, so you've always got a senior technical brain to lean on.

Need a whole product built, not just the next step? We scope that deliberately, as its own defined piece of work — agreed up front, so the shape and the cost are always clear.

Simple monthly pricing

Monthly rolling. Cancel any time with 30 days' notice. No hours billed, no day rates — you pay for the value, not the clock.

Founder Technical Partner

£2,500/month

For founders finding their feet — steady momentum on the one thing that matters most, with the decisions made and the work moving.

Founder Technical Partner Plus

£4,000/month

For founders in active launch and growth — a tighter cadence and a larger build scope, with several things moving at once.

Why work with me

I'm Will Forty. Twenty years building software — across fintech, banking, and AI — and I'm a founder and builder myself, with a portfolio of my own products behind me.

That means I've already made the expensive mistakes with my own money, so you don't have to make them with yours. You get a peer who thinks like a founder, not a contractor waiting for a brief.

Questions founders ask

Why not just hire a developer?

Cost, management overhead you'd have to provide, and judgement you'd have to supply yourself. A partnership gives you a senior, founder-minded technical lead for less than a hire — and none of the management burden.

What if I need a lot built?

A bigger build — a whole product, say — is scoped deliberately as its own defined piece of work, agreed up front. The monthly partnership keeps you moving; substantial builds are planned for what they are, so the scope and cost are always clear.

What do I actually get each month?

Progress, clarity, and confidence: agreed priorities delivered, the hard calls worked through together, and a roadmap kept honest — so you always know where things stand.

Can I stop if it's not working?

Yes. It's monthly rolling with 30 days' notice — start, see the value, and stay only as long as it's worth it.

Let's talk about your venture

Tell me what you're building. I'll reply within two business days from will@fortytech.co.uk.

I take on 1–2 new engagements at a time and reply within two business days.