About — Ballistarius

The Problem

Most companies facing delivery problems try the same things: new process, new tools, better people. Sometimes all three at once. The system stays broken.

Ballistarius exists for a specific problem — the gap between what gets decided and what actually ships. Between what product said and what engineering built. Between what sales committed to and what delivery can reliably produce.

That gap doesn't close with a better sprint cadence or a new project manager. It closes when you fix how the execution system is actually wired.

We operate as a fractional CTO layer — embedded, opinionated, and focused on one thing: making your execution system work.

That means diagnosing where value is being distorted. Where prioritization breaks down between product and revenue. Where CI/CD has become a throughput engine for the wrong work. Where organizational structure is hiding constraints instead of exposing them. Then we fix it at the system level. Not process tweaks. Not people changes. The system.

What That Gets You

"When the execution system is right, everything downstream stabilizes."

Forecasting

Cleaner. When delivery is predictable, the numbers stop being a guess. Commitments made to the board actually hold.

Sales Confidence

Sales stops discounting to compensate for delivery risk. They can sell what you actually built, on a timeline they actually believe.

Visibility

Leadership can see what's happening in the business — not just what people are reporting. Surprises stop coming from engineering.

The Operator

Doug Dockery

Founder, Ballistarius

Doug Dockery has held roles most people pick one of: CTO and CRO.

That's not a typo. He's operated at the top of both the technology and revenue functions — which means he sees the execution system the way it actually works, not the way it looks from one side of the org chart.

He's worked with Fortune 500s, high-growth startups, and companies backed by some of the most demanding investors in private equity — Vista Equity Partners, Bain Capital, Roper Technologies, and K1 Investment Management. PE-backed environments don't tolerate delivery systems that don't connect to outcomes. That's where the discipline came from.

The common thread of his approach: if nobody buys what you're building, it doesn't matter how quickly you deliver. Technology without revenue is an expensive hobby and only creates value when it ships reliably, sells confidently, and delivers what was promised.

That's the lens Ballistarius is built on.

LinkedIn ↗

doug.dockery@ballistarius.com

Roles Held

Chief Technology Officer
Chief Revenue Officer

Environments

Fortune 500
High-Growth Startups
PE-Backed Software

PE Sponsors

Vista Equity Partners
Bain Capital
Roper Technologies
K1 Investment Management

Next Step

If you've ever heard someone say "that's not what we meant" after a release — we should talk.

A single conversation is usually enough to identify where the system is breaking down. No deck. No sales process. Just a direct conversation about what's actually happening.

Schedule a conversation →

We Fix the System.