The Centaur CTO: Leading with AI to Be More Human
A practical leadership guide for CTOs who want better judgment, stronger teams, and more human impact with AI. Based on real experiences scaling FasterOutcomes, building award-winning systems at Uber, and 25+ years of engineering leadership.
The best CTOs will not be the ones who automate the most work. They will be the ones who combine AI leverage with human judgment. Topics include: using AI as a leadership operating system, coaching and growing people, making hard tradeoffs, building trust, and deciding what should not be automated.
About the author
Frank Goortani has been full-time CTO at FasterOutcomes since June 2025, focused on production LLM systems for legal and healthcare workflows, AI governance, and engineering leadership. Previously, he was a Solution Architect at Uber, where he built ELLE, an AI decision engine that cut manual privacy review time by roughly 70% across millions of decisions.