Lots of awful ideas here. Startups that hire consultants generally do so at their peril. Consultants write code fast, but rarely well. Their incentive is to do

Lots of awful ideas here. Startups that hire consultants generally do so at their peril. Consultants write code fast, but rarely well. Their incentive is to do what they're told to do quickly, not to build reliable, scalable architecture. You really don't want to leave core architectural decisions (which every technical hire will be making, at this early a stage) to mercenaries.