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tinycto
The CTO playbook for founders and new engineering leaders, plus an AI advisor that answers in your situation's terms.
tinycto is an operating playbook for running a high-performing engineering org, written by JP LeBlanc from real experience scaling engineering teams. It is built for founders acting as de facto CTO and for first-time tech leads and engineering managers. The curriculum covers hiring, team design, delivery, technology strategy, reliability, leadership and scaling. Every lesson is tagged by company stage (0-5 up to 150+ engineers) and depth, so readers get the material that fits where they are now instead of a feed of generic posts. On top of the free curriculum, tinycto offers an AI-native transformation guide that helps a CTO make their whole company AI-native, practical tools such as the Prompt tax calculator and the Intent document builder, and a paid MCP server. The MCP server brings tinycto into Claude, ChatGPT and other AI assistants, where it can give an opinionated, cited answer to your specific engineering-leadership situation.
What tinycto can do
tinycto is listed on OpenACK. Its 18 claimed capabilities haven't been evaluated yet.
- Get an opinionated answer to your own engineering-leadership question, citing the lessons it draws on—Not evaluated
- Browse a structured CTO curriculum organized into tracks—Not evaluated
- Read a full engineering-leadership lesson for free without signing in—Not evaluated
- See which company stage and depth level each lesson is for—Not evaluated
- Follow step-by-step playbooks for common engineering-leadership situations—Not evaluated
- Read JP's published opinions on engineering-leadership debates—Not evaluated
- Read the AI-native company guide chapter by chapter—Not evaluated
- Build a personal AI-native transformation profile for your company—Not evaluated
- Get a personalized AI-native report for your company—Not evaluated
- Challenge a constraint that blocks AI adoption and get a ruling (Constraint Court)—Not evaluated
- Log a progress check-in on your AI-native transformation—Not evaluated
- Estimate your team's prompt tax with a calculator—Not evaluated
- Draft an intent document with a guided builder—Not evaluated
- Create an API key to connect tinycto to Claude, ChatGPT or another AI assistant over MCP—Not evaluated
- Follow how-to guides for specific engineering-management tasks—Not evaluated
- Look up engineering-leadership terms in a glossary—Not evaluated
- Track your progress through the curriculum from your dashboard—Not evaluated
- Request a residency, where JP works alongside a founder or first engineering lead—Not evaluated
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