Just as founders rely on an independent CA to audit balance sheets, spot fiscal blind spots and navigate tax compliance, growing businesses need the same objective oversight for their technology. Tech Buddy is that oversight: an independent tech advisor, auditor and virtual CTO/CIO who sells no software and no development hours.
Yet most technology decisions are made on advice from the people selling the solution. An independent advisor closes that gap.
Four areas founders bring us in for, and the questions we're usually asked to answer.
Trim runaway cloud costs and validate system resilience before you lock into long-term vendor commitments.
Make sure your systems, workflows and data pipelines stay compliant with digital mandates like GDPR, HIPAA and India's DPDP Act.
Separate genuine business leverage from market hype, put data governance in place, and keep model risk under control.
Independent code and architecture reviews, so you don't have to rely solely on your agency's self-reporting.
Most "advice" in tech comes from someone who wants to sell you the fix. Tech Buddy is paid only for judgment, so every recommendation is made in your interest.
*Up to 10% of the monthly bill, applied to eligible cloud and third-party tech services we recommend or implement. Exact cap and eligible services confirmed at onboarding.
Most growing companies don't need a ₹1.5 Cr hire. They need CTO-grade decisions and independent oversight, at a fraction of the cost and commitment.
Most growing companies don't need a full-time CTO.
They need objective, CTO-grade decisions, without the CTO-grade cost.
Six principles that shape every call we make on your behalf.
We're paid for judgment, never for what you buy. That's the only way advice stays honest.
A senior advisor who has built and scaled real systems, not a junior learning on your budget.
We optimise for what survives twelve months, not what demos well. Fewer moving parts, fewer 2 a.m. fires, a smaller bill.
We read the code, the bill and the contract ourselves, so you're not relying on what a vendor says about its own work.
AI and new tech get the same test as everything else: real business leverage, managed risk, clear ownership.
The biggest risk isn't the code. It's deciding alone. We lay out the trade-offs and help you move.
Every Tech Buddy engagement is led by Jubin personally. As co-founder & CTO of Emgage, he runs a multi-tenant HRMS platform used by 400+ companies across India; before that he shipped a US hospital platform through e-prescription certification, a US county government services platform and an IoT cloud gateway managing 100,000+ devices.
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