Independent CIO & Platform Engineering
Your platform costs too much
and does too little.
Usually for 90% less.
I'm Matt Pulver. I do the job of your CIO and your dev team. 25 years of replacing what doesn't work and handing companies the keys to what does. What I build goes on your balance sheet, not a vendor's invoice.
You know something is wrong.
Projects take twice as long as they should. Budgets disappear. When you ask why, you get jargon or silence.
Your vendors bill for problems they'll never finish solving. Some of them are getting paid in more ways than you know. Your outsourced team costs more per month than the platform they built is worth. And nobody is looking at why.
If you're a CEO, COO, or ops leader tired of managing the people who were supposed to manage your technology, the fix isn't more vendors. It's one person who can see the whole board and build what's actually needed.
What I Build
I build it, hand your team the keys, and get out of the way. All of it still running.
Federal Data Platforms
10+ years, full enterprise ecosystem
$400/mo running what cost $4,200/mo. Full federal contracting data ecosystem. 34-table analytics platform, operations control center, client portal, payment processing, email campaigns, real-time billing. 60M+ records from SAM.gov, USASpending, SBA, GSA, and state procurement APIs. 40+ automated jobs.
moot.gg
moot.gg2024-present, world's first open VTT game standard
Open file format and platform for tabletop gaming. .moot is to TTRPGs what .epub is to books. Protocol spec, PixiJS canvas engine, 130+ endpoint server, converters for 5 platforms. Apache-licensed.
Law and Regulation SaaS
2025-present, in development
Regulatory change tracking for the gap between free government alerts and $50K+/yr enterprise tools. 142,000+ documents from 24+ sources: Federal Register, Congress.gov, all 50 states, EPA, OSHA. Config-driven pipeline pulls from 24+ sources regardless of how they publish the data. AI enrichment at ingest. SEO content layer plus paid SaaS dashboard.
AI Document Platform
2024, enterprise SaaS
RAG pipeline matching organizational content to structured opportunities. 35,000+ items harvested and classified from production PDFs. AI-driven content matching in under a minute. Multiple export formats, public document sharing, form prefill. Full SaaS: auth, background workers, pgvector retrieval, automated refresh.
Multi-Tenant Platforms
2022-2024, one codebase, many businesses
Each tenant manages their own modules, layouts, and content. Super admin controls what's available per site.
Municipal Web Platforms
2021-2023, replacing legacy vendors, real a11y
City government sites replacing overpriced legacy vendors and broken accessibility templates. Real compliance, not checkbox compliance.
Have a similar situation? Let's talk about it.
No layers. No exit.
I connect the disconnected systems, automate what's choking your team, and replace six-figure vendor contracts with five-figure builds. Then I hand you the keys.
Direct access.
No account managers. No layers between you and the person doing the work. You talk to me. I answer. Every client I've ever had has my cell number.
Plain English.
Weekly updates short enough to read on your phone. What changed, what's next, what's blocking. No 80-page PDFs nobody reads.
I stay until it works.
Not until the contract says I'm done. 10+ years on one project and counting. I built it, I own it until you don't need me to.
Your $200K project might be a $40K project.
The real timeline, the real cost, the real risk. I've told clients exactly that. They didn't believe me until I shipped it.
“Sharp perspective. Solves technical problems in low-cost, non-dependent ways. A legit friend in business and a real spine in a sea of backs.”
City official, retired Navy
Describe the mess.
No intake form. No CRM. Just tell me what you're dealing with. I'll read it, tell you what I'd do, and what it would cost. No discovery phase. Most engagements start with a two-week assessment.