Fractional & Interim CTO
Part-time executive technology leadership: roadmap ownership, team leadership, and board and investor reporting.
About EchelonOne
Building for the AI age.
AI is changing how people work and how companies run. EchelonOne builds practical products for that shift: tools that take on the repetitive parts of the job, work with the services you already use, and leave the decisions with you.
Today that means Echelon Inbox, an AI email client for Gmail on Mac, and Jimothy, a desktop app for running pipelines of AI agents with human approvals. More are on the way.
Founder
Brandon Braner
Brandon is a senior engineering leader with 15+ years across B2B SaaS, fintech, and regulated industries. Alongside building EchelonOne’s products, he works with companies as a fractional CTO and software architect, remotely from the Minneapolis–St. Paul area.
Building products like Echelon Inbox and Jimothy keeps his consulting grounded in what AI can actually do in production today.
Recent Work
data.iowa.gov
Finished a stalled state platform rebuild in five months, $600K under budget.
policies.iowa.gov
Built the State of Iowa Policy Hub with HCR, a public portal for searching and browsing published state agency policies.
MOSI
Built MOSI with HCR, a system of record for drafting, approving, publishing, and auditing policies, SOPs, and manuals.
EKOS
Built EKOS with HCR, a knowledge platform that helps regulated organizations track regulatory change and produce audit-ready evidence.
Iowa Executive Order 10
Built data pipelines measuring regulatory burden reduction across state agencies.
CTO Consulting
Senior technology leadership, on your terms.
Software Architecture
System design reviews, web platforms, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and modernizing technical debt.
AI-Enabled Engineering
AI-assisted development, code review workflows, and automated test generation for engineering teams.
Technology Strategy
Business-aligned roadmaps, build-versus-buy decisions, and prioritization frameworks.
Quality Engineering & Automation
End-to-end test automation, BDD strategy, and faster, more reliable CI/CD pipelines.
Advisory & Mentorship
A sounding board for founders and engineering leaders working through hard calls.
Bring AI into your company with an experienced CTO.
Learn more about Brandon’s fractional CTO and architecture work at brandonbraner.com.