Your On-Demand CTO
You know your industry's problems better than anyone. We're the technical partner who turns that insight into shipped software — on a fixed price, a committed deadline, and no runaround.
Fixed price
Outcome-based and agreed upfront, never hourly
20+ years
Decades of experience building critical applications
2 exits
Founding engineer at startups acquired by public companies
Trusted by Operators & Founders
Everything a Freelancer Isn't.
SF Startup Pedigree
World-class engineering, deeply business-savvy.
Communication First
Clear, proactive updates. No black boxes.
Outcome-Based Pricing
You pay for results, not hours. Fixed upfront.
Deadlines We Keep
A committed date you can build a plan around.
You've Been Burned by Contractors Before.
You have the vision and the market knowledge. What you don't have is a builder who actually delivers.
They Never Get Your Business
The Fiverr dev or offshore contractor builds exactly what you said—not what you meant. They don't understand your industry, so you spend more time correcting than creating.
The Timeline Keeps Slipping
Hourly billing rewards delay. Poor communication turns a two-week build into a two-month ordeal, and you're left guessing when—or if—it will ever ship.
The Budget Is a Black Box
Every change order and open-ended hourly invoice adds up. You never know the final number until it's already too big to walk away from.
Predictable Delivery, Predictable Price.
The difference between rolling the dice on a freelancer and partnering with a CTO who commits.
The unpredictable, hourly-rate gamble
- Hourly rates that reward slow work
- No real grasp of your business problem
- Endless back-and-forth and missed messages
- Deadlines that slip with no accountability
- Final cost unknown until the invoice lands
Unknown budget
and no promise it ever ships
The Nexus approach to building
- Fixed, outcome-based pricing—agreed upfront
- A world-class SF startup engineer who gets business
- Clear, proactive communication throughout
- Committed deadlines we actually hit
- Elite talent priced below what it should cost
Without the 500k cost
cost of a full-time CTO hire
See It In Action.
From operators who turned their market insight into shipped products.
Mark Altes
Sonoma Siteworks
Before Brock got involved, JobsiteX was really just an idea I had based on a problem I kept seeing in the construction and trucking business. I knew what I wanted the product to do, but I didn't know how to actually turn that idea into a working platform.
Brock took that concept and helped turn it into a real product. In a month, we went from talking through workflows and ideas to having an actual working app that connects contractors with trucks, handles dispatching, job details, mapping, payments, and the other pieces needed to make the platform work.
The Result:
The biggest result for me is probably speed. Things that would normally involve multiple phone calls, texts, checking truck availability, confirming addresses and coordinating drivers can now be handled through one system in a few minutes.
"What I appreciate most about Brock is that he doesn't just build exactly what you tell him to build. He understands the business problem and will push back, ask questions, and come up with a better way to solve it when he sees one."
I would absolutely recommend Brock to another business owner, especially someone who understands their industry and has an idea for how technology could make it better but doesn't necessarily know how to build it. That's basically where I started, and Brock helped turn that idea into something real.
How We Build Together
From the idea in your head to a product in the market. You bring the domain expertise, we bring the technical firepower.
Strategy
Turn your insight into a plan.
A strategy session to map the opportunity you see. We pressure-test the idea, scope the technical build, and hand you a clear roadmap, whether or not we build it together.
- Deep-dive on your market gap
- Technical feasibility & architecture
- Roadmap from concept to launch
Build
Turn the plan into a product.
We act as your CTO and engineering team, designing the architecture and shipping a production-ready product built around your domain expertise, not a generic template.
- Full technical architecture
- Production-ready MVP
- Built fast to capture the gap
Scale
Turn the product into a business.
We deploy, iterate, and keep evolving the product as you grow. Ongoing CTO-level support means the technology never becomes the bottleneck to your momentum.
- Deployment & iteration
- Ongoing CTO-level support
- Roadmap for what's next
Your Technical Partners, Not a Faceless Agency
North Bay Nexus is the CTO-level team behind founders and operators who know their industry cold but need someone to build the technology. We pair decades of engineering with hands-on product delivery to turn your insight into shipped software.
Tabitha Blagdon
20 years building mission-critical fintech and healthcare systems. Former Head of Engineering at Mercury and Director of Engineering at Maven Clinic. AWS ML certified with an MBA and deep expertise in AI/ML decision engines. She architects the systems that turn your vision into production-grade software.
Brock Lanoza
Founding engineer at two startups, both acquired by public companies. Built and sold enterprise software to top 50 banks. He bridges the gap between technical builds and business outcomes, managing your project from demo to deployment.
Based in Santa Rosa, we partner with operators and founders across the North Bay and beyond. We embed with you like a co-founder would, fully invested in what you're building.