Decode business objectives into actionable technology strategy.

Lonely Mountain Foundry provides its customers with a full suite of technology strategy and operations consulting services.

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The perfect complement to your technology function.

Lonely Mountain Foundry's services and solutions help organizations empower and enhance their technology business function.

Augment an existing technology team or hire Lonely Mountain Foundry to serve as a fractional CTO.

Services can be retained for committed long-term support or hired for short-term projects on an hourly basis.

Advisory Services

Define your technology strategy and operations in accordance with your strategic business goals.

Feasibility Assessments

Determine what it takes to go from idea to MVP to market-ready product. Assess effort, risk, and cost.

Software Development

Design and implement MVP or production-grade products, services, and systems.

Due Diligence

Decide the best course of action to achieve your business objectives. Prepare for a purchase or exit event.

Leverage our proven methodologies and templates.

Access hard-won experience in technology leadership that has been systematized and codified into tools and templates.

Lonely Mountain Foundry customizes and implements these tools for your use cases so that more time can be spent on strategic priorities.

CTO Handbook

Understand the what, why, where, and how of the CTO role. Use as a checklist for operating without a CTO or as a guide for first-time technologists occupying this senior leadership position.

Career Paths and Levels

Add formal structure to technical roles and responsibilities. Set appropriate expectations and incentives for your technologists and establish sensible salary bands and rewards according to seniority, performance, and potential.

Information Security Policies

Customize standard policies that map directly to your organization's practices. Prepare for ISO/IEC 27001 certification or for a SOC 2 Type II observation period.

IT Risk Assessment

Weigh the likelihood vs. impact of the IT threats your organization may face. Determine which risks could be accepted vs. which need active mitigation investment.

Pro Forma Capital Budgeting

Understand the expected returns and total cost of your software development projects with pro forma analysis. Make data-driven build vs. buy vs. partner decisions.

Cloud Cost Forecasting

Forecast, budget, and continuously monitor your cloud costs in relation to their alignment with your business objectives and value chain. Identify optimization opportunities and eliminate waste.

Technical Staff Allocation

Identify where your teams are truly spending their time and attention. Check your assumptions regarding organizational alignment and priorities.

Cost Capitalization

Capitalize internally-developed software and R&D costs and integrate these capitalization reports into your accounting tools of choice (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Xero).

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Jeff Olchovy is the owner and principal consultant at Lonely Mountain Foundry.

He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Crisp.

Previously, Jeff served as Chief Technology Officer of Experian Marketing Services, the AdTech/MarTech arm of Experian plc.

As CTO, Jeff oversaw the organization's overall technology strategy and operations, leading over 120 staff members across engineering, data science, information security, IT, and program management.

Prior to Experian, Jeff served as CTO of Tapad, Inc., successfully leading the organization through its acquisition by Experian Marketing Services. Jeff joined Tapad in 2012 as one of its early software engineers where he developed the underlying platforms and systems that would power its DSP and identity graph products. After Tapad's acquisition by Telenor Group in 2016, Jeff relocated to Oslo, Norway to establish Tapad's second engineering site. He assumed the positions of Chief Architect and CTO upon his return to the US.

Prior to Tapad, Jeff served as an early engineer and technical advisor for various technology start-ups throughout New York City. Jeff continues to consult and advise organizations large and small through Lonely Mountain Foundry, LLC.

He holds a bachelor's degree from New York University and an Executive MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, specializing in Technology Management and Operations and Leadership and Change Management. He is a Master's in Software Engineering candidate at Brandeis University.

Jeff is a native New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two children.