Ryan Richardson

BOTH SIDES OF TECH · PERTH, AUSTRALIA

Build a real tech business using what you already know.

10+ years consulting with major enterprise clients. 2 kids, 7 active startups. I've built a sustainable career doing this — but I've also lost hundreds of thousands on bad hires, offshore disasters, and bad deals.

My best work is unblocking smart people with domain knowledge who need that final 10% from idea to execution.

Ryan Richardson
RYAN RICHARDSON PERTH, WA

WHO THIS IS FOR

The people I do my best work with.

A GOOD FIT
  • 30+ year old professionals with domain expertise building enterprise/B2B businesses
  • Limited time, real responsibilities
  • Foundations for $1M+ scale
NOT FOR
  • Not dropshipping or AI overpromises. No upsell machine.
Ryan Richardson
ABOUT ME PERTH, WA

ABOUT ME

I do this work actively to support my kids, pay my mortgage and make sure I'm at home.

FORMALMBA · B.Sc Psychology · MCom Strategy · MD (first year) · PhD (proposal)
TECHNICALDeveloper in major consulting · Multiple startups · AI programme lead · Analytics lead · Full stack data and cloud engineering
EVERYTHING ELSEStrategy and performance improvement · Army reserve officer · Volunteer paramedic
CLIENTS INCLUDEBHP · South32 · Woodside · JPMC · UBS

HOW I WORK

A small number of relationships at a time.

A small number of relationships at a time. Each one selected deliberately.

Quarterly retainers with a 45-person team behind it. One point of accountability. For organisations where the technology problem is real and the usual vendors aren't solving it.

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Fractional CTO for funded startups that need senior technical direction without the full-time hire. Currently at capacity — looking at late 2026 for the next one.

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A senior sounding board for founders and executives who want honest, experienced thinking on their technology decisions — without a full engagement.

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The ongoing conversation. Weekly live calls, frameworks from real projects, and the kind of thinking I'd otherwise only share in a direct engagement — available to a much wider group.

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The translation layer that should have existed fifteen years ago. The manuscript is ~90% complete and I'm genuinely looking for early readers — not to validate it, to make it better.

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Please, no sales. If you have a genuine need then please reach out — but I don't want to buy anything or sell on your behalf.

RECENT THINKING

What I'm working through right now.

New writing is on the way — essays and frameworks from live projects.