Fractional CTO for BC founders and operators. Hiring a permanent CTO at the wrong stage burns 12 to 18 months and a chunk of equity. A fractional engagement gives you architecture decisions, hiring plans, and investor-ready technical strategy at the cadence the business actually needs.
British Columbia is Vancouver-led and US-facing: SaaS, payments, gaming, and a durable crypto and digital-asset scene, with Victoria adding govtech and cleantech. The province shares a time zone with Seattle and the Bay Area, and most BC companies sell south rather than east. That means US enterprise buyers, and US enterprise buyers ask for SOC 2 by default, usually earlier in the cycle than a Canadian buyer would.
We work remotely, and Pacific hours are a normal working day here, not a favour we do at the end of a Toronto calendar. The BC sequence is consistent enough to plan around: the first serious US customer sends a security questionnaire, the deal stalls, and the answer turns out to be SOC 2 plus a recent third-party penetration test. We scope that as one piece of work instead of two.
Hiring a permanent CTO at the wrong stage burns 12 to 18 months and a chunk of equity. A fractional engagement gives you architecture decisions, hiring plans, and investor-ready technical strategy at the cadence the business actually needs.
For the full service detail, see the Fractional CTO page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.
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