Steve Force / SFC

Hands-on business strategy, technology leadership, and execution.

I help business leaders decide what to pursue and make it work. I investigate systems and workflows, test assumptions, design solutions, build working capabilities, and lead implementation.

SFC is my consulting business. You work directly with me, bringing senior-level judgment and practical technical work to the same engagement.

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Steve Force

Working with SFC

Two ways to work together.

Start with the decision you need to make or the work you need to get done.

01 / Focused assessment

Decide what to pursue and what it will take.

Typically two to four weeks

A Hands-On Technology & Opportunity Assessment focuses on one consequential decision or bounded opportunity: pursuing an idea, modernizing a system, applying AI, or changing a delivery approach.

I work with the people involved, examine relevant systems and workflows, and test the assumptions most likely to change the recommendation. Where useful and feasible within the scope, I build a focused prototype or technical test.

What you receive

  • Findings grounded in what I examined and tested.
  • Practical options, with tradeoffs, risks, and unresolved questions.
  • A recommended direction and the reasoning behind it.
  • A next-step plan with priorities, dependencies, and further work needed.

We agree on the decision, scope, and access needed before starting. The assessment may lead to implementation, a narrower experiment, a different approach, or a decision to stop.

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02 / Implementation or leadership

Bring a defined need.

If you already know what needs to happen, we can begin there.

I can design a solution, build and integrate a capability, lead a product or delivery effort, or provide ongoing technology leadership.

We agree on the outcome, my responsibilities, and how I will work with your team. The engagement can focus on a specific implementation or continuing leadership.

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Consulting services

Where I can help.

Across these services, I combine senior-level judgment with direct investigation, design, building, and implementation.

Evaluate an opportunity or commitment

Hands-On Technology & Opportunity Assessment

When an opportunity or technology decision needs closer examination, I investigate the current situation, test key assumptions, and assess value, feasibility, and risk. I turn the findings into practical options and a recommended next step.

Hands-On Technical Due Diligence

Before an acquisition, investment, or technology partnership, I examine the software, architecture, infrastructure, technical debt, and delivery practices behind the claims. I identify material risks, unanswered questions, and the work a buyer or operator would inherit.

Design, build, and deliver

Hands-On Applied AI & Modernization

I examine how work gets done and where AI or changes to existing systems could improve it. I test approaches against real tasks, design the required changes, and build and integrate capabilities that fit the workflow and operating constraints.

Hands-On Enterprise & Solution Architecture

When systems, integrations, or technology choices are making progress difficult, I map the current environment and design how the pieces should work together. I define system responsibilities, interfaces, and a practical sequence of changes, then work through implementation decisions with the team.

Hands-On Product, Program & Delivery Leadership

When an initiative needs direction or delivery is struggling, I clarify the outcome, shape the scope, organize the work, and resolve dependencies. I work directly with business and technical teams to make decisions, address blockers, and carry delivery through to implementation.

Provide continuing leadership or build a venture

Hands-On Fractional CTO & Technology Leadership

When your business needs senior technology leadership on a part-time basis, I take responsibility for agreed technology priorities and decisions. I work with leadership and delivery teams on architecture, investment choices, vendors, and execution, combining ongoing direction with direct technical involvement.

Hands-On Venture Partnerships & Creation

For selected opportunities, I work with founders and partners to define the business, test demand and feasibility, design the product, and build initial capabilities. The evidence guides whether to continue, change direction, or stop; the role, commitments, and commercial terms are agreed for each partnership.

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Not sure where your challenge fits? Tell me what you need to decide or get done.

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Work in progress

Putting the method to work.

I am developing PULSE 360° as a product ecosystem for live music and a place to apply Project Forge: connecting product decisions, technology, economics, risk, and operating evidence.

This is venture-building work in progress. Its current technical capabilities and its commercial validation are at different stages.

Now building

PULSE 360° Events

Infrastructure for live music—designed around the people who perform it, present it, and show up for it.

  • Working public web and product capabilities
  • Cloud, data, integration, and controlled-delivery foundations
  • Monetization and applied AI components at different maturity levels

Current status: working technical capability is established; market validation, recurring revenue, and economic scale remain under evaluation.

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Experience behind the work

My consulting profile brings together representative experience, differentiators, and execution capabilities.

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Project Forge

Connect investigation with action.

Project Forge is the method I use to connect a business opportunity with evidence, architecture, working capabilities, and decisions about what to do next.

The scope determines which steps need the most attention. Findings can change the approach as the work progresses.

  1. Frame the opportunity

    Define the problem, the people affected, the intended outcome, and the decision to make.

  2. Gather and test evidence

    Investigate systems and workflows, challenge assumptions, and test what matters most.

  3. Design the approach

    Define the capabilities, architecture, constraints, and implementation sequence.

  4. Build and evaluate

    Create or change a working capability when that is the best way to learn or deliver.

  5. Decide what comes next

    Use the findings to proceed, adapt, expand, pause, or stop.

Steve Force / SFC

You work directly with me.

I bring together business strategy, enterprise and solution architecture, software development, applied AI, and delivery leadership. Through SFC — Steve Force Consulting — I apply that experience to your decisions and the work required to carry them through.

My working style is practical: understand the situation, examine the evidence, make decisions, and stay involved in implementation.

EntrepreneurEnterprise ArchitectSoftware DeveloperMusicianSound Engineer

A builder, in every sense.

  • 01Empathy and loyalty are strengths.
  • 02Doing things the right way matters.
  • 03Family comes first.
  • 04Father. Grandfather. Husband.

Start a conversation

What do you need to decide or get done?

Tell me about the situation, what you want to accomplish, and your timing.

Discuss an assessment

Describe the decision or opportunity, what remains uncertain, and when you need an answer.

Email Steve about an assessment

Discuss implementation or leadership

Describe the outcome you need, your current situation, and the technical work or leadership you want help with.

Email Steve about your needs

Or email me directly at steve@steveforce.com.