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Fractional CTO Services

Technical StrategyTeam HiringBoard Reporting

Servicios de CTO Fraccionado para Startups SaaS

Liderazgo Técnico Senior Sin la Contratación a Tiempo Completo

40+

SaaS Engagements

Series A through Series B

$10K

Starting Monthly

Predictable fixed fee

3.2×

Avg Engineering ROI

Within 6 months

Equity Required

Cash-only engagement

What Is a Fractional CTO?

A fractional CTO is a senior technical leader who works part-time with your company — usually 15 to 25 hours a week — giving you the same strategic oversight as a full-time CTO without the full-time price tag. For Series A through B SaaS startups, that means architecture decisions, engineering hiring, vendor evaluation, and investor-facing technical reporting. No $350K+ salary. No equity dilution.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Your investors want a technical roadmap and your board deck has a blank slide That blank slide erodes board confidence fast — and once confidence drops, follow-on fundraising gets harder and oversight gets tighter.

You're hiring engineers but nobody's actually evaluating their system design skills Bad hires compound. One wrong senior engineer can set your architecture back 12 months.

Your AWS bill tripled last quarter and nobody can explain why Uncontrolled infrastructure costs burn runway — and they signal operational immaturity to every investor who sees them.

Three vendors are pitching you and you can't tell which one is lying Wrong vendor lock-in costs $100K+ to unwind and can delay product delivery by quarters.

Technical debt is piling up but nobody's weighing it against feature work Velocity drops quarter over quarter until shipping anything takes 3× longer than it should.

Your engineering team has no career ladder, no sprint process, and no incident playbook Top engineers leave within 12 months. Replacing them runs $30K–$50K per head.

Cumplimiento

Technical Strategy & Roadmapping

We build a 6–18 month technical roadmap tied to your business milestones and fundraising timeline. Every architecture decision maps to a revenue outcome or a specific risk you're trying to eliminate.

Engineering Team Hiring

We write job specs, screen candidates, run technical interviews, and design your engineering ladder. You get the right people in seats without burning 40 hours on screening calls.

Architecture Review & Remediation

We audit your codebase, infrastructure, and data layer for scalability bottlenecks and security gaps. You get a prioritized remediation plan — not a 60-page PDF that collects dust on a shared drive.

Vendor & Tool Evaluation

We evaluate SaaS tools, cloud providers, and third-party integrations against your actual requirements and budget. Objective analysis — no affiliate links, no kickbacks.

Board & Investor Reporting

We build the technical slides for your board deck and join board meetings when it matters. Investors get straight answers about uptime, velocity, and technical risk.

SOC 2 & Security Readiness

We put access controls, audit logging, and security policies in place that enterprise customers and investors expect to see. SOC 2 Type II readiness without hiring a full compliance team.

Qué construimos

Weekly Strategy Sessions

Recurring 90-minute sessions with founders to keep technical priorities aligned with business goals and your next fundraising milestone.

Async Slack Access

Direct Slack access to your fractional CTO for real-time decisions. No waiting for the next scheduled call when something's on fire.

Sprint Process Design

We put lightweight agile processes in place that actually ship software instead of just generating Jira tickets.

Due Diligence Support

Technical due diligence prep for your next funding round — code quality reports, architecture diagrams, and risk assessments that investors actually expect to see.

Incident Response Playbooks

We write and drill incident response procedures so your team handles outages without panic at 2 AM.

Build vs. Buy Analysis

Data-driven analysis for every major technical decision so you stop building commodity features that already exist as off-the-shelf services.

Nuestro proceso

Technical Assessment

We audit your codebase, infrastructure, team structure, and technical debt. Within the first week, you get a written assessment with severity ratings and a prioritized action plan.

Week 1

Strategy & Roadmap

We align your technical roadmap with your business milestones — next fundraise, enterprise launch, or compliance deadline. Every workstream gets an owner, a timeline, and a clear definition of done.

Week 2–3

Execution & Hiring

Then we start executing: architecture changes, hiring pipelines, vendor evaluations, process improvements. Your team sees measurable velocity improvements, not just slide decks.

Month 1–3

Board Integration

We build your first technical board report and establish the KPIs that matter — deployment frequency, incident response time, infrastructure cost per customer. Investors stop asking uncomfortable questions.

Month 2–4

Transition or Retain

When you're ready for a full-time CTO, we write the job spec, screen candidates, and run a structured handoff. Many clients keep us on through Series B. Honestly, both paths work fine.

Month 6+

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿En qué se diferencia un CTO fraccionado de un consultor técnico?

Un consultor escribe un informe y se va. Un CTO fraccionado se integra con tu equipo — asiste a standups, participa en llamadas de contratación, se une a juntas directivas y es responsable de los resultados técnicos durante meses o años. Somos responsables de resultados, no de entregas.

¿Cuántas horas por semana trabaja un CTO fraccionado?

Típicamente 15 a 25 horas por semana dependiendo del nivel de compromiso. Esto cubre sesiones de estrategia con fundadores, disponibilidad asincrónica en Slack, interacciones con el equipo de ingeniería, trabajo de arquitectura y preparación de juntas. La mayoría de startups Series A encuentran que 20 horas es el punto óptimo.

¿Aceptan capital como compensación?

No. Trabajamos con retainers mensuales solo en efectivo. El capital crea incentivos desalineados — queremos darte asesoramiento honesto sobre construir-vs-comprar, cambios de equipo y dirección técnica sin que ningún interés en tu tabla de capitalización nuble ese juicio.

¿Pueden ayudarnos a contratar un CTO a tiempo completo más adelante?

Sí. La mayoría de compromisos incluyen una transición planificada. Escribimos la descripción del puesto, buscamos candidatos a través de nuestra red, dirigimos las entrevistas técnicas y gestionamos una transición estructurada de 30 días. Varios de nuestros placements han venido a través de referrals directas de nuestra propia red profesional.

¿Con qué stacks de tecnología SaaS trabajan?

Trabajamos en stacks SaaS modernos — Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Vercel y Supabase son todos comunes. Somos agnósticos de stack en nuestras recomendaciones. Si tu mejor opción es Rails o Elixir, te lo diremos y te ayudaremos a contratar para ello.

¿Qué tan rápido pueden comenzar?

La mayoría de compromisos comienzan dentro de una semana de la firma. Realizamos una evaluación técnica pagada en los primeros cinco días hábiles y entregamos un informe escrito con recomendaciones priorizadas. De allí, pasamos directamente a la ejecución en tus elementos de mayor impacto.

Fractional CTO from $10,000/mo

Month-to-month. No equity. 30-day termination clause.

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