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Technical Leadership
Fractional CTOArchitecture ReviewEngineering Process Design

خدمات CTO المستعانة بها

قيادة تقنية مدمجة بدون تكلفة الموظف بدوام كامل

72+
Engagements
Across SaaS, agencies, and startups
3.2x
Avg Dev Velocity Gain
Within 90 days
$380K
Avg Saved vs Full-Time CTO
Annual cost difference
100%
Monthly Accountability
Deliverables, not hours
What Are Outsourced CTO Services?

A fractional CTO gets you senior technical leadership without carrying a full-time executive salary. They work directly inside your organization — owning architecture decisions, evaluating and hiring engineers, selecting vendors and tools, running security audits, and building the engineering processes your team actually needs. Engagements are structured around monthly deliverables and accountability milestones. No billable hours, no padding.

أين تفشل المشاريع

You're a non-technical founder making technical decisions based on whatever your contractors tell you That's a problem. Misaligned architecture choices quietly compound until you're staring down a six-figure rewrite 18 months later.
Your dev team ships features, but nobody actually owns system architecture or technical debt Performance starts slipping. Onboarding new engineers takes forever. Your best senior developers get frustrated and leave.
You've hired three agencies and you still can't tell who's doing good work Vendor spend keeps climbing with no quality benchmark in sight. You're essentially buying confidence, not outcomes.
Security and compliance get handed off to the same developers writing features One breach or failed audit can cost more than years of CTO compensation — and it usually comes out of nowhere.
Engineering hiring feels like a black box when you can't evaluate technical candidates yourself Bad hires cost $50K–$150K each once you factor in recruiting, onboarding, and eventual replacement.
Nobody's accountable for engineering KPIs — deploy frequency, incident response, uptime Without measurement, engineering stops being a competitive advantage and turns into a cost center.

الامتثال

Architecture Review & Roadmap

We audit your stack, infrastructure, and codebase. What you get back is a prioritized technical roadmap with cost estimates and risk assessments attached to every decision.

Engineering Hiring Oversight

We design technical interview processes, evaluate candidates, and sit in on final rounds. You'll stop guessing whether someone is actually senior-level.

Vendor & Tool Selection

We evaluate agencies, contractors, SaaS tools, and infrastructure providers against what you actually need — not what sounds good. Every recommendation includes a switching-cost analysis so you know what you're committing to.

Security & Compliance Audit

We run penetration testing reviews, dependency audits, and access control assessments. Deliverables map directly to SOC 2, HIPAA, or GDPR requirements depending on what you need.

Engineering Process Design

We implement CI/CD pipelines, code review standards, sprint ceremonies, and incident response workflows. Your team ships faster and hits production with fewer fires.

Monthly Accountability Reports

Every month you get a written report — progress against OKRs, engineering health metrics, and the upcoming decisions that actually need your attention as a founder.

ما نبنيه

Embedded Weekly Cadence

Dedicated hours each week with your team: standups, architecture sessions, and 1:1s with your lead developers.

Board & Investor Readiness

Technical due diligence documentation and architecture narratives ready for fundraising or acquisition conversations.

Tech Debt Quantification

We score and prioritize technical debt so you can budget remediation against feature development instead of just hoping it resolves itself.

On-Call Escalation Access

Critical production incidents or time-sensitive vendor decisions get a same-day response, outside the regular cadence.

Team Topology Design

We define roles, reporting lines, and team boundaries so your engineering org can actually scale without turning into a communication bottleneck.

Build vs. Buy Analysis

For every major feature or system decision, we deliver a written analysis comparing custom development against existing solutions. No opinions without evidence.

عمليتنا

01

Discovery & Audit

We review your codebase, infrastructure, team structure, vendor contracts, and business goals. You get a written technical assessment within the first week — not the first month.
Week 1
02

Roadmap & Prioritization

We build a 90-day technical roadmap tied to business outcomes. Every item has a cost estimate, an owner, and a risk score.
Week 2
03

Embed & Execute

We join your weekly cadence — standups, planning, retros. Hiring, architecture, and process improvements start moving immediately, not after a lengthy onboarding period.
Weeks 3–4
04

Monthly Review Cycle

Each month closes with a written accountability report. We review engineering KPIs, adjust the roadmap, and flag the decisions that need your input before they become problems.
Monthly
05

Transition or Retain

When you're ready to hire a full-time CTO, we write the job description, vet the candidates, and run a structured handoff. Or we stay on retainer. Your call.
Ongoing
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الأسئلة الشائعة

ما الفرق بين CTO جزئي ومستشار تقني؟

المستشار التقني يقدم آراء. CTO جزئي يمتلك النتائج. نحن في اجتماعاتك اليومية، ننقد طلبات السحب، نقابل المرشحين، نكتب وثائق العمارة. نحن مدمجون في عملياتك مع تسليمات مساءلة شهرية — وليس جالسين على مجلس استشاري ربع سنوي يقدمون إرشادات عالية المستوى من مسافة آمنة.

كم عدد الساعات في الأسبوع التي يعملها CTO جزئي فعلاً؟

عادة ما تتراوح الارتباطات من 10 إلى 25 ساعة في الأسبوع حسب النطاق. لكننا نحدد الأسعار بناءً على النتائج القابلة للتسليم، وليس الساعات. أنت تدفع مقابل قرارات العمارة ونتائج التوظيف وتحسينات سرعة الهندسة — لا لشخص يحتل مقعداً في اجتماعك اليومي.

هل يمكنك مساعدتنا في توظيف CTO بدوام كامل ليحل محلك؟

نعم، وفي الواقع نشجع ذلك عندما يكون التوقيت مناسباً. نكتب وصف الوظيفة، نصمم حلقة المقابلة التقنية، نقيّم المرشحين النهائيين، ونجري نقل معرفة منظماً لمدة 30 يوماً. ينتقل معظم العملاء إلى CTO بدوام كامل في مكان ما بين 6 و12 شهراً من بدء الارتباط.

هل تعمل مع فريق لديه بالفعل نائب رئيس الهندسة؟

تظهر هذه النقطة كثيراً. نائب رئيس الهندسة يدير الناس وتنفيذ العمليات. CTO يمتلك الإستراتيجية التقنية والعمارة وقرارات البائعين الخارجيين. الدوران الاثنان يكملان بعضهما جيداً — لكنهما ليسا نفس الوظيفة. نحدد حدوداً واضحة في اليوم الأول حتى لا يكون هناك تداخل أو التباس.

ما أعمق خبرتك التقنية؟

أعمق خبرتنا في أنظمة JavaScript و TypeScript الحديثة — Next.js و React و Node.js و Supabase و AWS و Vercel. نقيّم وننصح أيضاً على Python و Ruby و Go وأكوام الأجهزة المحمولة. للمجالات المتخصصة، نسحب متخصصين موثوقين من شبكتنا بدلاً من التظاهر بمعرفة كل شيء.

كم سرعة البدء بعد التوقيع على العقد؟

تبدأ معظم الارتباطات خلال أسبوع واحد من توقيع العقد. يصل التسليم الأول — تقييم تقني مكتوب لمكدسك والفريق والعمليات — بنهاية الأسبوع الأول. المؤسسون يحتاجون إلى إجابات الآن، وليس في الربع القادم، وهذه هي طريقة تنظيم كل شيء.

Fractional CTO from $5,000/mo
Fixed monthly retainer. No hourly billing. Cancel anytime after 90 days.
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