Fractional CTO Services — On-Demand Technical Leadership
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Experienced CTO leadership. None of the guesswork.

Every vendor quote lands differently, and none feel honest. Fractional CTO services give you someone who sits on your side of the table — architecture calls, vendor picks, hiring, board updates — run by someone who's shipped the thing they're advising on. Accountable from day one.

What we deliver

Architecture calls that survive your next hire
Vendor picks you can defend in a board meeting
Engineering hires who stay past month three
Technical strategy that matches your business plan
Board and investor updates in the language they read
Process that ships — not process that reports

Our approach

Most technical mistakes compound silently. The wrong stack, the wrong hire, the wrong vendor — each is a six-figure problem your business ships with for a year before anyone notices. Pattern recognition is what closes the gap: someone who's seen the same decisions at many other companies and knows which ones don't undo later.

A full-time CTO is the wrong tool for most stages of a business. You pay C-suite salary for years of work that happens in bursts — hiring sprints, board prep, platform picks, due diligence windows. We're here for those weeks, out of your way the rest, with the experience to tell the difference.

Frequently asked questions

Fixed quote per scope. What we scope is what we quote, and what we quote is what you're invoiced. New work or scope changes are scoped and quoted separately, before we build. Minimum engagement is $5K.
Whatever the scope demands — tuned to your rhythm, not a fixed schedule. Some engagements are weekly touchpoints plus async leadership. Others are deeper, with on-site days during hiring sprints or board prep. We scope it once we understand the priorities.
An advisor gives opinions. A fractional CTO makes decisions. We're embedded with your team — reading the code, talking to the engineers, and owning the technical calls that matter.
When technical strategy becomes a daily, full-time concern — or when your engineering team is large enough to need dedicated leadership in the room. We help you make that transition: running the search, writing the playbook, and staying close through the first months.

Ready for senior technical leadership — this week?

Start with a fixed-quote architecture and roadmap review — a first engagement before any long-term commitment.

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