With my agency freiheit.software I spent years building and owning software for other companies: scaled facilioo as fractional CTO, led drd.at through a regulated domain as interim CTO, built a complete ERP for HTR. In 2026 I still had to put the agency into liquidation.
The reasons were not in the projects. They were with me as a business owner: lacking cash discipline, too many parallel construction sites, saying no to the wrong prices too late. These lessons are not consulting slides, they are paid-for experience.
The fresh start has long been in production: with FSA Liegenwerk Digital GmbH I run my own AI product for property managers, and as a fractional CTO I support companies that want to avoid exactly these mistakes. You get both: a CTO who has scaled, and an entrepreneur who has carried the risks himself.