Philip Borlin

"We bought the tools. We trained the team. Why aren't we shipping faster?" If you've said this in the last 90 days, this page is for you. I hear it constantly from CEOs and founders with engineering teams of 10–50 developers. Access isn't the problem. The problem is how the team works. Random prompt usage doesn't compound. Agentic execution, layered with senior engineering judgment, does. For 20+ years I've led engineering organizations through exactly this problem: → At Nursa, I led a 45-engineer team's transition to AI-native coding: 100% of new features now built entirely with AI, with a team that contracted to 35. → At SamCart, I shipped the Embedded Checkout MVP (now processing multi-million-dollar weekly GMV) while taking engineering from 0 major releases in 6 months to a steady cadence of 3 per quarter. → At WebinarNinja, in 7 months I took a global team from 0% to 100% of capacity on roadmap, shipped a 2-year-stalled replatform on its original target date, and cut AWS spend by 10%. → Plus deep leadership runs at Pluralsight, InVision, and Veyo: stabilizing Pluralsight's core video delivery to 5 nines on uptime and availability. The pattern is consistent: senior engineering judgment + a deliberate workflow + a real delivery target. That's what makes velocity show up in shipped product instead of standup updates. I haven't just led teams to do this. I built and operated Eudaimonia solo, a production SaaS shipped end-to-end on agentic workflows. I shut it down on unit economics, not on engineering. The workflow survived contact with real production, under my own name. That's exactly what I built Riser Tech around. We run a fixed-fee, 4–6 week AI Velocity Sprint. We embed with your team, work on a real business priority in your real environment, ship something meaningful, and hand back a clear diagnostic of what is actually limiting your team's speed, plus a blueprint for scaling what worked.Built for software companies with internal engineering teams already paying for Copilot, Cursor, or Claude Code, but not yet seeing the delivery curve bend. Quality stays high. Senior judgment stays in the loop. AI handles velocity. Humans handle vision. If you're tired of hearing "the team is using AI" while the ship date keeps moving, let's talk. Book a strategy call at https://calendly.com/risertech/ai-velocity-sprint-strategy-call, or send me a DM here.