CoreForge / private engineering practice

Fractional CTO and chief engineer

Software built for escape velocity.

Break free of the software holding your business back. A private engineering practice for companies at $5M+, from the roadmap to the last line of code.

Begin a conversation → See the systems
Engagement specCF-01
Role
Fractional CTO and chief engineer
Company size
$5M+ revenue
Ownership
Roadmap to the last line of code
AI
Where it does real work
Compliance
HIPAA, BAAs, audit logging
In production
Align AI, Cadence, Vitara
Background
10 years in rocket propulsion
3Systems in production
2Regulated industries: healthcare and law
1Owner, from the roadmap to the code

01 / Note

A note before we talk

If you run a company doing $5M or more, your software probably grew the way the business did: one tool at a time. Now there's a separate tool for everything, and someone on your team spends their week copying data between them.

That works until it doesn't. Growth exposes every manual handoff, and the next hire is often just another person keeping the tools in sync.

I come in as your fractional CTO. I learn how the business runs, then design and build what the next stage needs: custom software, AI where it does real work, installed around your people rather than on top of them. Then I stay on to run it.

Dillon Kidd Founder, CoreForge Consulting

02 / Systems

Three systems, in production.

Built for healthcare and law, two of the hardest places to get software right.

Align AI

● Live

The AI-native practice management system for chiropractors. Automate the practice, voice-command every action, save ten or more hours a week.

Vertical
Chiropractic
Stack
Next.js, Postgres, AWS Bedrock, Deepgram
Compliance
HIPAA, BAAs with every vendor
alignai.health →

Cadence

● Live

Running quietly in the background at Flatiron Legal. Intake, routing and follow-through, handled, so the firm keeps moving while attorneys practice law.

Vertical
Family law
Stack
Next.js, Postgres, Claude, Clio API
Fit
Runs alongside the firm's existing Clio stack
cadencelawapp.com →

VITARA

● Live

The AI-native operating system for hormone, peptide and aesthetic clinics. Voice-to-SOAP, protocols, labs and private-pay billing in one place.

Vertical
Hormone, peptide, aesthetic
Stack
Next.js, Postgres, Claude
Replaces
Six stitched-together tools
vitaracare.com →

03 / Engagement

How an engagement runs.

Phase I

Understand

I sit with the founders and learn where hours and margin disappear. Before anything is built, you get an architecture plan in writing.

Output: an architecture plan, in writing

Phase II

Build

Custom software on your data, inside your workflows. AI implemented where it does real work. Everything else integrated and delivered in pieces, so the business never pauses.

Output: production software you own

Phase III

Steward

I stay on as your fractional CTO: roadmap, vendors and growth trajectory, building and integrating your team as the company grows.

Output: a technical owner who stays

I take on a small number of companies at a time: growing, and ready to take the business to the next level.

A

Internal platforms, portals and dashboards

B

AI agents inside real workflows

C

Integrations with the systems you already pay for

D

Security and compliance from the first commit

Dillon Kidd

04 / Founder

Scope. Test. Ship.

In aerospace the rule was test like you fly. I spent ten years in rocket propulsion, building systems that solve complex problems. That's how I build software for companies now. Align AI, Cadence and Vitara were all designed, built and run that way.

Name
Dillon Kidd, Founder
Previously
Rocket propulsion design, 10 years
Now
CoreForge Consulting

05 / Contact

By introduction, or by email.

dillon@coreforgeconsulting.com
Legal and BAA
legal@coreforgeconsulting.com
Security
security@coreforgeconsulting.com
CoreForge Consulting LLC · © 2026 coreforgeconsulting.com