I'm Richie Kastl. I run technology for businesses that can't afford to get it wrong.

I started this practice because I kept meeting the same frustrated owner. They had a strategy deck from a fractional CTO who never built anything, a stack of agency invoices nobody could vouch for, and a website that quietly did nothing. Good people, real revenue, and no one who actually owned the technology their business ran on.

For two decades I've been that owner. American manufacturers and tech platforms, always as the person accountable when the platform has to stay up, the site has to rank, and the numbers have to land. That stretch taught me a belief the whole practice runs on: technology should be an asset that compounds, not a bill that recurs, and the person who decides it should also be able to build it. Judgment without execution is just opinion.

I work from Ohio, serve clients nationwide, and keep the roster deliberately short. Every client is a multi-million-dollar company, every engagement gets a senior operator, and there's no junior team to get handed to.