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Fractional CTO / Architect / Builder

DostalTechnology

I fix broken tech stacks for growth-stage companies — leading with Agentic AI & Edge AI

Built by Mathew Dostal — 15+ years shipping production systems, including at Costco, Hertz, Wayfair, and Chick-fil-A before Dostal Technology, backed by mobile, distributed systems, and fintech infrastructure depth. One practice, three ways to work together: Enterprise, Small Business and Startup & Growth. Each covers audits, fractional or interim leadership, hiring support, growth engagements and due diligence, scoped to what you need.

15+
Years Experience
100+
Engineers Led
Millions
Users Served
37
Organizations, 2009–2026

Separate product · Start here

The Audit Report: Know Where You Actually Stand

An audit of your site and online presence, and the entry point to everything we help with.

Researched and quality-checked by our audit system, with every finding labelled by its evidence. Want a person's read? Add an Expert review. The Base report runs 30+ pages. The Base report covers site inventory, performance, security, SEO, accessibility, geographic scope and local position. The Full report adds competitors, positioning, pricing, marketability and more.

  • A short brief and the full PDF

    Both arrive by email.

  • Part 1: verified facts

    What we found, with sources.

  • Part 2: labelled judgment

    Our read, marked as judgment so you can tell it from the facts.

Technical Depth Behind the Practice

15+ years shipping production systems — from edge AI and hardware integration to fintech infrastructure to enterprise scale. The technical range that supports fractional CTO, architecture, and builder work across every engagement, including, before Dostal Technology, systems handling billions in transactions for global brands like Costco, Hertz, and Wayfair.

01

Edge AI & Hard Tech

Proprietary Hardware Architecture

Raspberry Pi clusters, custom NVR solutions, RTSP video pipelines, and offline-first mobile systems for low-connectivity environments.

02

Fintech Infrastructure

Escrow, Payments & Compliance

Stripe Connect payment rails, separate charges and transfers for escrow, dynamic rules engines for regulatory compliance, and fraud prevention systems.

03

Enterprise Scale

6,000% Throughput. $5M+ Savings.

Architecting systems processing billions in transactions. Event-driven microservices, advanced caching, and performance optimization at Fortune 500 scale.

Look What We Built

Real client work: what the problem was, what we delivered, and how it's put together.

All That Technology home page, with five service category cards under the headline Expert Home Technology Services.

Home technology, Dallas area · Fractional CTO

All That Technology

A stock Shopify store became a service-first storefront the owner can measure.

A custom Shopify 2.0 theme with 7 purpose-built sections, PostHog and Meta Pixel tracking with 6 dashboards, and 15+ growth strategy documents.

  • Shopify 2.0
  • Liquid
  • PostHog
  • Meta Pixel
  • JSON-LD
See the breakdown
CADEX Legacy home page, with the headline The Standard for Football Training beside a brand story video.

Youth football training, Austin · Fractional CTO

CADEX Legacy

Coaches, families, and admins now run on one platform, built from zero.

A public site, coach portal, parent and athlete portal, and separate admin app on one database, with subscriptions, booking, coach payouts, and AI-assisted film review.

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • Prisma
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • Twilio
  • OpenAI
See the breakdown

Partner integration · Strategy & Solutions Architect

Denton BBQ

QuickBooks Desktop integration through Web Connector, architected with Denton BBQ.

Partner integration work with Denton BBQ, with Mathew as Strategy & Solutions Architect.

  • QuickBooks Desktop
  • Web Connector
See the partnership

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We Build and Run Our Own Products, and We'll Build Yours

The same people and practices you'd hire, running on real products of our own.

flayr home page, with the headline Your social media, handled.

Content platform · with Don Matthews and Firefly Events

flayr

One idea goes in, and finished content for every channel comes out.

Make on-brand posts with AI and schedule them to 13 platforms. We run our own brands on it.

  • AI content
  • Scheduling
  • 13 platforms
Visit flayr.social
Portunus documentation home page, describing a secret broker that agents ask for by name.

Agent framework · Open-source secret broker

Pantheon + Portunus

An AI crew that ships software, and a broker that keeps secrets out of its reach.

Pantheon is the agent layer behind how we plan, build, test, and ship. Portunus, its open-source piece, injects a secret only at the execution boundary, never inside an LLM or agent context.

  • AI agents
  • Secret broker
  • Open source
See the case study
The Hive documentation site for the Claude Code plugin.

Spec-driven dev plugins · Built by Don Matthews at Firefly Events

Hive

A coordinated team of AI specialists for planning, building, testing, and review.

A public Claude Code plugin that gives agent work the discipline of a real software team, from kickoff to ship. Our own engineering runs on it.

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • Multi-agent
Read about Hive
tools.mdostal.com home page, listing live open-source tools.

Free, open-source utilities

tools.mdostal.com

Small, sharp tools, built and shipped in public.

Live utilities including Allergy Locator, Mapstack US map layers, and a component framework for drone property work.

  • Open source
  • Live tools
  • Public repos
Browse the tools
The Audit Report page on mdostal.com, with the headline Know Where You Actually Stand.

Separate product · Start here

Audit Report

An audit of your site and online presence, delivered by email.

A short brief plus the full PDF: verified facts with sources, then labelled judgment. Researched and quality-checked by our audit system. The Base report runs 30+ pages.

  • Performance
  • Security
  • SEO
  • Email delivery
See the report
The Dragon Shop early access page at shop.mdostal.com.

Merch · Opening soon

The Dragon Shop

Dragon-branded, 3D-printed maker goods, designed, printed, and shipped by hand.

Our own storefront, powered by Mercatus Liber, our open-source commerce project. The early access list is open now.

  • 3D printing
  • Printed to order
  • Mercatus Liber
Get early access

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