Fractional CPTO for founders building with AI.
I’m Elliott Garcea. I co-founded 10KC, ran its engineering and product teams for eleven years, and sold the company for $100 million. Now I give a handful of founders the senior product and technology judgment they need before they can hire a full-time CPTO: what to build, how to build it, and how to lead the teams that deliver it.
Selected experience10KC · Apple · Pivotal · VMware · Toyota
What I do
| Fractional CPTO | Founders, seed to Series B | A fractional Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead product and engineering. I own product strategy, roadmap priorities, and architecture decisions, then help you build the teams and prepare for board conversations. |
|---|---|---|
| AI product strategy | Founders & product leaders | I help you choose AI use cases customers will pay for and reject the ones that will fail in production. From there I define the architecture and roadmap needed to ship. |
| Investor due diligence | PE & VC | Product, technical, and AI diligence for a company you may back. You receive a written assessment of the product strategy, code, and team’s ability to deliver the roadmap, with evidence for each conclusion. |
| Putting AI to work in your team | COOs & functional leaders | I help you choose AI tools and redesign the workflows around them. Then I work with your teams until the tools pay for themselves in cycle time or output. |
| Turnaround | Boards & investors | When product and engineering stall, I reset priorities around customer needs and remove delivery bottlenecks. The teams get a credible plan for what to build next and how to ship it. |
Where this comes from
Before 10KC I led fifty-plus engineers at Xtreme Labs through its acquisition by Pivotal and then VMware. Before that, Apple as an operations engineer, and New Product Development at Toyota, where Lean became muscle memory. Computer engineering at the University of Waterloo underneath it all.
AI only matters when a real organization ships it. That’s the part I do.
For investors
Due diligence before the deal. Turnarounds after. If that’s your seat, read the investor brief.
One call tells you if this fits.
Bring the company and the decision you need to make. The call is free and you don’t need a deck. If I can’t help, I’ll tell you and suggest someone better suited.