Increase your stake.
Anyone can build software now. Knowing what is worth building is the hard part. MGSTAKING brings business judgment and senior engineering together, for founders and owners who want a company that is worth more, not just a system that works.
Founder-led practice. Bucharest, Romania.
- 05Your stakeA company that is worth more
- 04BusinessModel, economics, priorities
- 03SolutionProduct, process, people
- 02TechnologyArchitecture, engineering, AI
- 01FoundationInfrastructure, security, operations
15+years
Building technology, and the businesses around it
CTO
Co-founder & CTO of SyndiFi, commercial real-estate crowdfunding
18reports
Public smart-contract audit reports published by xAudits
11years
Previously at NXP (Freescale): embedded Linux and security
The moments when a technology decision becomes a business decision.
- 01You are about to commit to a platform, a vendor or a rebuild, and nobody in the room can tell you what it will really cost.
- 02Critical information lives in spreadsheets, inboxes and five tools that do not talk to each other.
- 03Your platform works, but you are not sure it would survive an audit, an incident or a demanding customer.
- 04You want AI in a real process, not in a demo, and need to know what it costs and who answers for it.
- 05You are investing in or acquiring a software business and need an independent technical view.
- 06You need a CTO's judgment, but not yet a full-time CTO.
Four ways to work together.
Each one starts from the business, not from the technology, and ends with something you can hold: a decision, a plan, a working system.
Technology strategy & fractional CTO
Architecture decisions, roadmap, vendor selection and technical oversight, with an agreed scope and clear responsibility.
You receive
- Decision memo
- Target architecture
- Prioritised roadmap
- Leadership cadence
Architecture, security & technical assessment
An independent review of a platform, its infrastructure, its technical debt and its risks, for owners, boards, investors and acquirers.
You receive
- Risk assessment
- Prioritised remediation plan
- Cost and effort drivers
- Executive summary
AI adoption & operational automation
AI and automation in real processes, where the economics and the reliability support it, with permissions, evaluation and human review designed in.
You receive
- Opportunity map with economics
- Working pilot in a real process
- Controls and review design
- Run-cost model
Selected product engineering
The applications, portals, integrations and internal systems that implement an agreed strategy, from architecture to deployment and handover.
You receive
- Working system in production
- Acceptance criteria met
- Documentation
- Handover or ongoing operation
Built, shipped and operated.
Not slideware. Systems in production, with the responsibility that comes after launch.
SyndiFi investment platform
The technology behind a commercial real-estate crowdfunding business.
Founder & operatorAn ecosystem of eleven applications
Investment platforms, team tools and status pages, run from one hub.
Founder & operatorMulti-party digital signing
Many partners sign the same contract in parallel, with a verifiable trail.
Specialist firm, founded by MariusxAudits smart-contract security
Independent audits of Solidity and Rust smart contracts, with public reports.
Start small. Commit when it is clear.
- 01
Diagnostic
A paid, bounded review of your situation: the systems, the processes, the risks and the opportunities. You get a prioritised action plan with scope, trade-offs and cost drivers. It is useful on its own, whoever implements it.
- 02
Defined implementation
A clearly scoped project with agreed outcomes, acceptance criteria, documentation and ownership. No open-ended retainers disguised as projects.
- 03
Ongoing advisory & operation
Where it makes sense: a scoped advisory relationship, fractional CTO role, maintenance or infrastructure operation.
In selected long-term engagements, part of the fee can be structured as equity. When the company grows, so does our stake. That is the point.
Decisions are only as good as the systems that carry them.
Deployment, operations and security reviews for the platforms your business depends on. Cloud or self-hosted, chosen for your needs and your costs, documented so you are never locked in.
- Deployment architecture and Linux operations
- Monitoring, backups and tested recovery
- Access control and security reviews
- Smart-contract audits through xAudits
We hold stakes, too.
MGSTAKING invests its own capital, long term, in businesses and real assets it understands. It is why the advice comes from an owner's point of view.
Direct access. No handoff to a junior team.
I am Marius Grigoraș. I spent eleven years in embedded systems and security at NXP, then built and ran technology businesses of my own, which is where I learned that the technology is rarely the hard part. Today I am co-founder and CTO of SyndiFi, where I am responsible for product, architecture, delivery and infrastructure. Through MGSTAKING I take on a small number of advisory and engineering engagements.
Tell me what you are deciding.
A first conversation is about fit: your situation, what a good outcome looks like, and whether I am the right person to help.