Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO MCP Server

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Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. It exposes 12 tools. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Ask a UK fractional CTO's practice directly: services, prices, articles, and whether he fits.

Uptime history 26 days of history

26 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

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119 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 15 Oct 2026

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Today is the operative word: we check Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 1 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add ashley-payne --transport http https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ashley-payne]
url = "https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ashley-payne": {
      "url": "https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "ashley-payne": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

assess

assess_fit

Compares a description of a project, business or problem against a fixed published rule and returns a verdict: good_fit, mixed, poor_fit or insufficient_information. Wording alone never produces poor_fit. Where the text touches one of the things Ashley turns down, the result lists questions in ask_these_then_call_again, and the three named fields take the person's own answers on a later call. poor_fit needs an explicit yes in one of those fields; good_fit needs an explicit no in all three. Having a development team is not the same as wanting Ashley to supply one.

capability

get_ai_capability

Which AI techniques he has built in production (prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, MCP servers, local inference) and when each one is the right choice. Use this for questions about AI, automation or data privacy.

case

get_case_study

Full detail for one engagement: the situation, what was built, the engineering decisions and why they were made, the stack, and where there is one, the commercial outcome in indexed figures.

contact

get_contact

How to reach Ashley: email, the contact page, and a booking link when one is live. Use when the person wants to make contact.

evidence

get_evidence

Where the numbers on the site come from, for when someone asks whether they can be trusted. Returns one statement of provenance: the figures are counts from live systems, self-reported with a stated method and not independently audited, and Ashley will run any of them in front of someone who asks. Per-figure detail (the collections, queries and returned values) is not published.

faqs

get_faqs

The questions buyers ask, with his answers. Pass a query to get the relevant ones; omit it to list every question without the answers.

insight

get_insight

The complete text of one article, by slug. Use after search_insights, and only when the summary is not enough to answer the question.

insights

search_insights

Search his articles on technical leadership, fractional CTO work, AI and building SaaS. Returns titles, summaries and the matching passage. Call get_insight with a slug for the full text of one.

overview

get_overview

Positioning, background and what makes him different from other fractional CTOs. Start here.

privacy

get_privacy

What this connector and the website do with data, and what they do not. Use this if the person asks about privacy, tracking, cookies, GDPR, or what Ashley can see of this conversation.

services

get_services

The three ways an engagement runs (Build, Partner, Consult), the fixed-price diagnostic most engagements start with, how the process works, and which client surfaces he builds: desktop applications, browser extensions, chat-platform integrations and web. Use this for any question about platforms, apps, pricing or how an engagement is structured.

work

list_work

Summaries of the selected work, with the slug needed for get_case_study.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://www.ashleypayne.co.uk/mcp	streamable-http	answering	137 ms	1 min ago

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Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: assess_fit, get_ai_capability, get_case_study, get_contact, get_evidence, get_faqs and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 119 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO need an API key?

No. Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO?

It answers our handshake in 119 ms on average, which is faster than 89% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Ashley Payne, technical co-founder and fractional CTO open source?

We cannot say either way: 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.