Technical leadership for founders who need an engineering executive but are not ready for a full-time hire.
Get startedYour fractional CTO makes the technical decisions that shape your product and your engineering culture.
Stack selection, system design, scalability planning, and build-vs-buy decisions. We make the calls that prevent costly rewrites 18 months from now.
Hiring plans, interview processes, leveling frameworks, and onboarding playbooks. We help you attract and retain senior engineers in a competitive market.
Preparing for a funding round or acquisition? We produce investor-ready technical assessments covering architecture, code quality, scalability, and team maturity.
Cloud provider selection, SaaS evaluations, open source vs. commercial trade-offs. Every technical purchase decision gets the same rigor as a build decision.
Technical leadership that fits your stage.
We learn your product, market, team, and technical landscape. We identify the biggest technical risks and the decisions that need to be made first.
Architecture documentation, technology roadmap, and engineering process design. We create the foundation that your engineering team builds on.
Weekly syncs with founders, code review participation, hiring involvement, and on-call escalation. We stay as hands-on or strategic as your stage requires.
Tell us where you are technically and we will match you with the right leader.
Book a CallA fractional CTO provides part-time technical leadership: architecture decisions, technology strategy, hiring and team structure, vendor selection, and roadmap planning. It fits founders who need senior technical judgment but are not ready for a full-time CTO salary.
When you need senior technical direction but the role does not yet justify a full-time hire, or when you want experienced guidance while you build the team. A fractional CTO is also useful for diligence, a rebuild decision, or steering a small team through a critical phase.
The role is leadership-focused: architecture, strategy, hiring, and process. Hands-on engineering and infrastructure work is available through our DevOps and custom software services when an engagement needs delivery as well as direction.
Yes. Our founder is a published CVE researcher who has run a product through SOC 2 Type II, so security and compliance are built into the technical decisions rather than bolted on later. That is a meaningful edge if you sell to enterprises.
Engagements are scoped to your stage and needs rather than sold as fixed packages. We agree on focus areas and cadence up front and adjust as priorities shift. There is no long lock-in for the sake of it.