I’m not a front-end developer. I’m not a designer either. But I needed a credible site for Summit Foundry Group — fast.

When building, my happy place is infrastructure, systems, and planning. At Under Armour I once tried to “learn mobile dev,” adding a feature to an internal Android test app, and it took me 5× longer than my team. Fun experiment, but I went back to my strengths (and my team thanked me after joking about it).

Fast forward to today. I needed a credible, premium site for Summit Foundry Group. I didn't want to spend a ton of money on something that should be lightweight and quick, and I wanted to learn something in the process.

Enter the AI tools

You (probably) knew this part was coming, but what's interesting here is what I learned, and what my experience confirmed. These tools are awesome if you're starting from a blank slate.

The challenge: I knew the messaging and the services that needed to be on this website, but I didn’t want to disappear into weeks of learning design systems or UI polish. I also wanted to launch something complete, avoiding blink tags and 90s construction gifs as much as possible.

I decided to go all-in with a set of AI tools to help me get this site off the ground, and I'm really happy with the outcome. Here's my approach, which is definitely not groundbreaking, but also something I've found success with in many avenues lately.

Structure & layout: ChatGPT + V0 for wireframes, site flow, and bootstrapping the site on Vercel.
Copy: AI drafts refined into founder- and investor-ready messaging. Gamma to design and publish one-pager.
Build: Cursor + Linear to turn ideas into production-ready code.
Polish: Iterated with human and AI feedback until it felt clean and credible.

Why not stand up a WordPress site or similar? Unless you're working with a headless CMS, site templates, plugins, etc, get heavy quickly and never quite match the look and feel you want - resulting in a slow site that doesn't match the ethos of what we're building here.

I learned a lot in this process, here are the highlights:

Vision is human. No tool will define your ethos for you.
AI is leverage. It shrinks the gap between idea and shipped.
Progress compounds. Each draft got better — speed + iteration mattered more than perfection.

In the end, AI collapsed the distance between “idea” and “shipped.”

So why Summit Foundry Group?

After years leading tech across growth-stage SaaS, PE roll-ups, and consumer scale-ups, I saw the same gaps over and over:

Failed M&A integrations - the thesis didn't match the reality on the ground.
Leaders unable to determine the right thing to do - customer-driven development, or (perhaps worse) resume-driven development.
Making big decisions too early - how do we unlock the business, keeping north stars in mind, but not get stuck building for a $100M+ business when you're at $20M?

I started Summit Foundry Group in recognition that these skills are spiky and project-based. CTOs aren't always overseeing a bunch of major transformations or constantly dealing with acquisitions (most of the time). Instead, businesses need support when it matters.

Summit Foundry Group exists to solve those gaps:

Fractional CTO leadership. Strategic technology leadership without the full-time overhead. I step in to align product, engineering, and business priorities so founders can scale with confidence.
Fractional Operating Partner. A hands-on partner for investors and portfolio companies. I embed quickly to assess, stabilize, and accelerate technology functions — translating technical reality into business outcomes.
0→1 product & platform build. From thesis to working product. I help founders validate, architect, and launch their first product or platform — building the foundation for scale.

The Summit Foundry Group site is my first project

This process is a microcosm of how I work with founders and investors: clarity, smart leverage, and execution without noise. That’s the ethos behind Summit Foundry Group.

This site took about a week, including the lead capture flow, headless CMS backing this blog, hosting, DNS, CI, etc. And while the AI tools helped a ton in getting the rote work done, they didn't do everything. AI helped me focus on the approach; and with the right approach, you can move fast and focus on what matters.

Summit Foundry Group is live. If you’re a founder or investor facing complexity, I’d love to help you find clarity.