A senior partner small teams can actually work with.
Some projects need more than task completion. They need someone who understands the business, explains technical tradeoffs clearly, and stays close enough to the work to keep it moving.
Remote senior technical partner
Practical technical leadership for small teams and serious web platforms.
I help organizations modernize Drupal, build useful web platforms, and bring AI-assisted workflows into real operations with clear judgment, steady execution, and 26+ years of hands-on development experience.
26+ years web development
Former CTO
Drupal 11
Agentic AI workflows
26+
years building for the web
1999
Crannell Web Services founded
CTO
SaaS platform leadership
AI
practical agentic workflows
Clear lanes: Drupal, platforms, AI workflows, and technical leadership.
From Drupal modernization to AI-assisted operations, the work is grounded in stable systems, practical decisions, and outcomes a small team can actually use.
Services
Where senior experience turns into useful outcomes.
Focused consulting and implementation for organizations that need stronger platforms, clearer technical direction, and smart adoption of modern AI-assisted workflows.
Fractional Technical Partner
Technical roadmaps, architecture decisions, platform reviews, vendor sanity checks, and delivery guidance for teams that need CTO-level judgment without a full-time executive hire.
- Product and platform planning
- Technical rescue and prioritization
- Remote leadership for small teams
Drupal + Web Platform Modernization
Drupal audits, upgrades, site architecture, contributor workflows, dashboards, client portals, deployment, hardening, and long-term maintenance planning.
- Drupal 10/11 upgrades and rebuilds
- Content architecture and workflows
- Hosting, backups, and deployment
AI-Assisted Workflow Design
Practical AI adoption for real work: agent-assisted research, drafting, intake, review, publishing, internal operations, and repeatable playbooks with human approval where it matters.
- AI workflow audits and pilots
- Agent skills and process playbooks
- Local and cloud model planning
Custom Platform Build + Support
Hands-on development for serious web systems, including Drupal, WordPress, SaaS-style workflows, dashboards, integrations, and small-team product execution.
- Custom features and integrations
- Client-facing workflows and portals
- Ongoing advisory and implementation
Focused, senior help
Choose the level of support your platform needs: advisory, modernization, AI workflow design, or hands-on implementation.
Proof
Built from real work, not borrowed buzzwords.
Former CTO
Aspida360: complex workflows turned into client-driven technology.
Jamie served as CTO at Aspida360, rebuilding and extending a Drupal-based web platform, developing systems and functionality as the scope grew, supporting white-label client sites, managing web infrastructure, and researching AI capabilities.
The platform became part of an award-recognized story, with Aspida360 named a Family Wealth Report 2024 Client Driven Innovation winner.
LifeOnTheShore: Drupal 11 with agent-assisted publishing workflows.
A modern local publishing platform with Drupal 11, hardened DigitalOcean hosting, contributor workflows, profile features, theme flavors, and AI agents that support research, drafting, editorial polish, Drupal posting, and social workflows.
Crannell Web Services: decades of practical client delivery.
Since 1999, Jamie has combined development, design, hosting, support, consultation, SEO, client communication, and practical problem-solving across a long list of small-business and community clients.
AI age, practical stance
AI works best when it attaches to a real workflow.
Agentic workflows can help small teams move faster when they are designed around real tasks, trusted source material, review points, and business context. The goal is not novelty. The goal is better work with clearer guardrails.
1ResearchGather source material and context.
2DraftCreate structured first passes.
3ReviewHuman approval and judgment.
4PublishConnect output to real systems.
Ideal Client Fit
Small enough to value direct senior help. Serious enough to need it.
Founder-led companies
Teams with a real product, growing technical decisions, and no appetite for bloated agency process.
Drupal platform owners
Organizations with content, users, workflows, integrations, or legacy CMS pain that needs expert modernization.
Agencies and consultants
Partners that need a senior Drupal, platform, or AI workflow specialist for complex projects.
Capabilities profile
A concise profile for serious conversations.
A concise senior consultant profile for founders, agencies, and platform owners who need to understand Jamie’s experience, services, and proof quickly.
Inside the profile
Enough context to decide if the conversation is worth having.
- 01
Profile 26+ years building web platforms, former CTO, practical AI workflow builder.
- 02
Services Fractional technical leadership, Drupal modernization, custom platform development, AI workflow pilots.
- 03
Proof Aspida360, Family Wealth Report award context, LifeOnTheShore, Crannell Web Services.
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Engagement Assessment sprint, modernization project, AI workflow pilot, monthly retainer.
Work with Jamie
Bring a serious web platform into its next chapter.
Reach out with the platform you are working with, what feels stuck, and what needs to be better in the next 30 to 90 days. Jamie can help with strategy, implementation, or both.