Rough Diamond Studio

Turning Complex Technology Into Business Advantage.

Strategic technology leadership, custom software engineering, and practical AI automation for businesses ready to move forward.

  • Fractional CTO
  • Software consulting
  • AI automation

Services

Three ways to put technology to work.

Leadership, engineering, and automation — scoped to the decision in front of you, not a packaged stack of services you do not need.

01

Fractional CTO

Technology leadership when you need it most.

Experienced technical direction for startups and growing businesses, without a full-time executive hire.

  • Technology strategy and roadmaps
  • Architecture oversight
  • Engineering leadership
  • Technical due diligence
  • Product development planning
  • Team building and mentoring
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02

Software Consulting

Better architecture. Better software. Better outcomes.

Design, build, modernize, and scale software around the way the business actually works.

  • Custom software development
  • System architecture
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Application modernization
  • Technical assessments
  • Engineering process improvement
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03

AI Automation

Make AI useful for your business.

Find the work worth automating, then implement it with oversight, security, and a result you can observe.

  • AI agents
  • Workflow automation
  • Business system integrations
  • AI strategy
  • Custom AI-powered applications
  • Human-in-the-loop processes
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Why Rough Diamond Studio

Judgment, then the work to back it up.

01

Strategy Meets Execution

Technology advice is backed by practical engineering experience. Recommendations are meant to be built, not filed.

02

Business First

Tools are chosen for the problem in front of the company. Novelty is not a reason to adopt something.

03

Experienced Leadership

The work combines executive technology leadership with hands-on software development.

04

Built to Last

The aim is a system the team can maintain: secure, scalable, and free of shortcuts that become next year’s crisis.

How we work

A clear path from the problem to a system you can keep.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the business, the constraints, and what a good outcome actually is.

  2. 02

    Strategize

    Identify the real opportunities and choose an approach the organization can carry.

  3. 03

    Execute

    Design and deliver the solution, close enough to the work to be responsible for it.

  4. 04

    Evolve

    Improve what shipped. Adapt it as the business changes, and scale only what earns it.

Portrait of Pedro Almache, founder of Rough Diamond Studio

Founder

Pedro Almache

An engineering leader and software architect, and the co-founder and CTO of two startups. Rough Diamond Studio is his independent practice for companies that need senior technical judgment and someone close enough to build.

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