Delivering clarity to tame complexity
Fix the architecture but ignore the team, and nothing ships. Restructure the team but skip the process, and quality collapses. Anvil Systems aligns people, process, and product to make technology predictable, reliable, and ready for what's next.
Leverage AI across all three as an accelerant.
Engagements fall into two categories. Leadership engagements are ongoing relationships, providing presence, judgment, and accountability. Project engagements have a defined scope, a defined deliverable, and a clear endpoint.
Ongoing technology leadership on a part-time basis. Embedded inside your team working on the problems that matter to your business. Best for companies that need ongoing technology leadership without a full-time CTO.
Full-time technology leadership providing coverage and continuity during a CTO transition. Focused on stabilizing the team, hiring, and onboarding a new CTO, then handing off smoothly. Optional transition to Strategic Advisor after handoff.
A trusted technical voice for boards, leadership teams, and founders offering seasoned guidance on technology strategy and critical decisions without the hands-on commitment of a fractional CTO.
An independent technical assessment for investors evaluating an acquisition, or startups preparing for investor scrutiny. Scoped and agreed upfront, delivered as a written report covering architecture, team, risk, and technical debt.
Greenfield builds, major platform rebuilds, and legacy modernization. Architecture is part of the engagement because you don’t build the right platform without designing it first. Every build is designed for scale, long-term maintainability, and clean handoff to your team.
A structured multi-day working session for teams facing major technical obstacles or needing architectural guidance on compliance, complexity, or other critical decisions. The engagement ends with documented recommendations your engineering team can execute.
Every engagement starts with a minimum commitment. Month-to-month is available after the initial term. Every engagement ends with a clean handoff: documentation, context, and a plan for what happens next.
John Kellar is a technology and business operations executive with over 25 years of experience driving innovation, operational efficiency, and strategic growth across startups and enterprises. He has a proven track record of scaling teams, launching products, integrating acquisitions, and optimizing revenue for high-impact organizations.
John has operated across multiple industries, including Healthcare & Healthtech, Financial Technology, Travel & Hospitality, Luxury Real Estate, and Enterprise SaaS. He has extensive experience in highly regulated environments, having built HIPAA-compliant platforms and navigated PCI compliance requirements.
No pitch deck. No sales pressure. Just an honest conversation about what you need.