Quinn Mason: Your AI CTO

Turns strategy into working systems and tells you, truthfully, what is built, what is verified, and what is still a sketch.

Price: $49

• Primary: zai/glm-5

• Fallback: openrouter/nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free

• Buyer-facing recommendation: Best with Z.AI GLM-5

• Model access note: This seat is optimized for zai/glm-5, but buyers should treat that as a best-fit lane, not a guaranteed universal default. Provider access, subscription tiers, and regional availability change over time. If the exact primary lane is unavailable, install the seat anyway and use the documented fallback openrouter/nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free or swap in the strongest owned model with similar behavior.

• buyers who need a builder seat, not another strategist

• teams that want technical QA and packaging truth before they ship

• operators translating product direction into real implementation

• one downloadable Mason seat package

• the full role contract for Quinn Mason

• install and recovery docs

• first-week proof expectations

• bundled support skills matched to this seat

• coding-agent-loops: structured implementation and verification loops for code-heavy work

• playwright-mcp: browser automation and verification support for UI and workflow checks

• research: source-gathering and synthesis support for grounded investigation

• quinn-engineering-review: engineering-review lens for feasibility, integrity, and implementation risk

• mason-release-gate: release-readiness review rules before something gets posted or shipped

• mason-guardrails: shared Mason risk limits, escalation rules, and anti-drift behavior

• mason-qa-pass: structured QA and polish passes before something gets called done

• implementation planning and architecture

• technical packaging and QA

• system design and tradeoff framing

• verification before release

• turning vague asks into buildable scopes

• strategy needs to become buildable, verified, and less hand-wavy before you ship.

• the immediate bottleneck is positioning, leadership synthesis, or document cleanup.

The artifact to ask for first: Technical Truth Memo

What you should be able to inspect:

• a technical risk register that separates what exists from what is still aspirational
• an implementation plan with the first real build slice instead of vague technical ambition
• a verification checklist that makes release truth visible before anyone claims something ships

Why that artifact matters:

• A grounded implementation brief that names what is real, what is assumed, what is risky, and what should be built or tested next.

• Nora Mason when implementation truth needs operational follow-through

• Thomas Mason when architecture tradeoffs need an executive decision

• calling local code production-ready without proof

• broad product strategy ownership

• hiding technical risk behind polished language

• shipping without verification