Building has become easy. Deciding why to build hasn't.
Hey there, I'm Chris. I'm the founder of 716 Ventures. I help founders make the hard calls before any code is written. I'm also a fractional CTO for a few startups.
You can sit down with an AI model on a Friday night and have something working before the weekend is over.
That's incredible, but it's also dangerous. When shipping is cheap, the expensive mistakes move upstream, into why you build, who it's for and if it should exist at all. Those decisions haven't gotten any easier. If anything, they've gotten harder.
Helping founders get those decisions right is what 716 Ventures is all about.
What I do
The Blueprint
Most founders reach a point where having another experienced set of eyes can be worth their weight in gold.
The Blueprint is a two to four week engagement where I take a hard look at your product and business, identifying the biggest risks and where AI can genuinely add value. You leave with a written plan and a prioritized roadmap.
Learn about The Blueprint →The Room
The Room centers on Vector Sigma: from vibe coding to a simple, professional build loop — built-in tickets, per-issue workspaces, and Cursor-powered agent runs that stay on the work until it's done. Discord and the library keep you from inventing process alone. $99/year.
Explore The Room →The Factory
This is where I walk the walk and talk the talk. Review what I'm shipping this week, not projects I finished years ago. The Factory is the open workshop where I show what I'm building right now, what ships next month and the lessons I'm learning along the way.
Visit The Factory →
Twenty-five years of building software
“Products rarely succeed because someone picked the perfect framework.”
They succeed because somebody made a handful of good decisions before the code ever existed. Becuase they undersood the why.
I've been designing and building software for more than twenty-five years now. That's long enough to have watched this industry reinvent itself several times. Open source, mobile, cloud and now AI.
Every wave changed the tools. None of them changed the importance of making good decisions as early as possible.
