United States · North America

Fractional CTO in the United States

Fractional CTO for US 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.

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US ecosystem context

US enterprise buyers are the reason most of our clients need SOC 2 in the first place. The shape of it is always the same: a company wins real interest from a US enterprise, a vendor-security review lands in the middle of the deal, and everything parks until there is a report to hand over. The bar here is set by the buyer, not by a regulator, which is why it shows up as a questionnaire and a procurement gate rather than as a law you can look up.

We are a Canadian firm and we work with US clients cross-border, across US time zones. We do not keep a US office, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we do instead is coordinate around how you actually work, and establish presence for the length of the engagement where the work calls for it. What we bring is specific, repeated experience getting companies through US enterprise security review: what the questionnaire is really asking, which controls the reviewer actually checks, and what has to be true before the deal moves. We prep you to pass. Only an independent CPA firm can sign a SOC 2 report, and we will introduce you to one.

Fractional CTO scope

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.

  • Technical strategy, architecture, and build-vs-buy decisions
  • Engineering hiring plans, interview loops, and leveling
  • Investor-ready technical due diligence and data room prep
  • Vendor and tooling decisions (cloud, SaaS, observability)
  • Weekly founder syncs and engineering team coaching

For the full service detail, see the Fractional CTO page. For fixed-price productized engagements, see pricing.

Services US clients usually bundle

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