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Shane StebnerSouth Florida, in person or remote

Complex software, made simple.

I help companies plan and build new software, and help their engineers use AI safely. Fractional CTO, MVP development and AI consulting in South Florida.

Talk about your project

Starting something new

Get a part-time CTO to plan and lead it, or have me build a production-ready first version.

Bringing AI into your team or product

Help your developers work faster with Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot under clear rules, or add AI features to your product with safeguards built in.

I keep it simple

  • Plain words

    I won't try to impress you with big words. You'll always know what I'm doing and why.

  • The simplest thing that works

    I take your requirements and find the simplest solution that meets them. Less code means fewer bugs and a smaller bill.

  • You understand the work

    Before anything starts, you'll know what will be built, roughly what it costs, and what could go wrong.

From my recent work

From an idea to a product ready to sell
For an AI data startup, I designed the product roadmap, found strategic partners, and oversaw the build from nothing to beta testing and demos for enterprise CEOs.
Fractional CTO
A production-ready MVP
For an AI data startup, I took the first version from idea to production, with security checks, monitoring and repeatable releases built in. It moved into marketing and was shown to executives at major companies.
MVP development
AI coding across a large engineering team
At a national retailer, I introduced GitHub Copilot, then built Cursor commands and Claude skills that grew adoption across teams. Connecting Jira through MCP cut manual steps between a ticket and a pull request, and I added guardrails on what Claude is allowed to do.
AI for dev teams
Software changes without a development team
For small-business clients, I automated the whole development process. The client describes a change in plain words, and an AI principal engineer that knows the code and the product's direction writes it up in full. Separate agents build it, review it and fix what the review finds, then it ships to production with a one-click rollback. Gates based on each task's size and risk control what goes through.
AI for dev teams
An AI assistant that asks before it acts
In my own personal finance app, I built an AI assistant that looks up the right information before it answers. Its tools can only reach the signed-in household's data, and it can't change anything until the user approves. Every approved change is logged and can be undone for 24 hours.
AI integration
A safe way for AI apps to use your data
In the same app, I built an MCP server, the standard way AI assistants like Claude connect to other apps. People sign in with OAuth and grant read-only or read-and-write access, an admin can block any connected app, and a kill switch shuts it all off.
AI integration

More about me and a couple of my own products.

Based in South Florida

In person across Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade, and remote anywhere. Working with me locally

Tell me what you're working on.

A few sentences is enough. I'll reply within one business day with questions or a next step.

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