Pre-seed / seed founders needing CTO thinking without the equity ask of a full hire.
Enterprise-level technical leadership. Without the enterprise hire.
A fractional CTO who’s shipped products from 0 to 1M users. Available to your company at a fraction of a full-time hire.
When a fractional CTO makes sense.
Post-Series-A companies where the founding CTO has moved to CEO and nobody owns technical strategy.
Non-technical founders building a technical product — where architecture decisions are being made by whoever yelled loudest.
Companies between CTOs — interim leadership for 6-12 months.
What a fractional CTO actually does.
What we own, week to week.
Architecture decisions
The one-way doors.
Hiring panels
Senior engineers, senior-level interviews.
Vendor evaluation
Build vs buy, tool choice, contract review.
Board tech reporting
Investor updates, pre-diligence prep.
<em>From "our tech is blocking growth"</em> to 4x shipping velocity in 4 months.
10-hour/week engagement. Re-architected auth, set up proper CI/CD, hired 3 senior engineers, shipped a major product milestone on time.
We had 3 engineers arguing about architecture for 6 months. Our CTO-for-hire settled it in week one.
The tools. Chosen for your reasons.
How we actually work.
- 01
Brief
Week 1Current state, desired state, constraints.
- 02
Deep dive
Weeks 2-4Architecture, team, processes, data.
- 03
Findings
Week 5Written report, walkthrough, priorities.
- 04
Roadmap
Week 690-day plan, 12-month plan.
- 05
Execution
Week 7+We stay to help, or hand off.
Answers, without the fluff.
Still have questions? Talk to us — we answer within a business day.
01How long does a typical engagement take?
02Do you sign an NDA?
03Who owns the code and IP?
04What does your pricing model look like?
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CTO as a Service done right.
A 30-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
