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Technical Leadership
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CTO Fraccionario para Startups y SaaS

Liderazgo Técnico Integrado Sin Costo de Tiempo Completo

90-Day
Strategic Plan
Delivered in week 2
10–25
Hours Per Week
Flexible engagement
$0
Recruiting Fees
We handle hiring
48hr
Response Time
On all technical decisions
What Is a Fractional CTO?

A fractional CTO is a senior technical leader who works with your company part-time — typically 10 to 25 hours per week — and delivers the same strategic guidance you'd get from a full-time CTO, without the full-time price tag. They own architecture decisions, run engineering hiring, evaluate vendors, and tell your technology story to investors and board members.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Non-technical founders making architecture decisions by Googling Technical debt piles up quietly until your Series A runway disappears into rewrites.
Outsourced dev team with no one reviewing their work You're paying for code that nobody on your side can evaluate or maintain.
Board asks about infrastructure scalability and you go blank Investors notice. Follow-on funding gets harder to close.
First engineering hire has nobody senior to report to Wrong hires, wrong stack, cultural drift from day one.
Vendor contracts signed without anyone doing technical due diligence Now you're locked into expensive platforms that don't fit what you actually need.
Full-time CTOs run $250K–$400K+ once you factor in equity and benefits Before you've hit product-market fit, that overhead can sink you.

Cumplimiento

Architecture Review & Roadmap

Full audit of your current stack, infrastructure, and codebase. You get a documented architecture and a migration path if one's needed.

90-Day Technical Strategy

A board-ready document covering priorities, milestones, and resource allocation — built around your fundraising timeline and product goals.

Engineering Hiring & Team Building

We write job specs, screen candidates, run technical interviews, and structure your engineering org. No recruiting agency required.

Vendor & Tool Evaluation

Honest assessment of SaaS tools, cloud providers, and third-party APIs. We negotiate contracts and keep you out of lock-in situations.

Investor & Board Communication

We translate technical complexity into language investors actually understand. That means joining board meetings and prepping tech diligence materials before fundraising kicks off.

Security & Compliance Posture

We put baseline security practices in place, get you on the path to SOC 2 readiness, and establish data handling policies — before investors or enterprise customers come asking.

Qué construimos

Weekly Architecture Office Hours

Your team gets dedicated time each week to get real-time technical decisions from someone who's done this before.

Async Decision Documentation

Every architecture call gets logged as an ADR. When you hire a full-time CTO, they inherit context instead of confusion.

Code Review Oversight

We review pull requests and hold your dev team or agency to real quality standards.

Fundraise Tech Diligence Prep

Investor-facing technical documentation ready before due diligence starts — not scrambled together at the last minute.

Build vs. Buy Analysis

Honest, data-driven takes on when to build in-house versus buying something off the shelf.

Transition Planning

When you're ready for a full-time CTO, we write the job spec, source candidates, and make sure the handoff is clean.

Nuestro proceso

01

Technical Discovery

We go deep on your product, codebase, team, runway, and business goals. You walk away knowing your three biggest risks and your three biggest opportunities.
Week 1
02

90-Day Plan Delivery

A board-ready strategic plan covering architecture, hiring, security posture, and milestone targets — shared with founders and investors together.
Week 2
03

Embedded Execution

We join your Slack, show up to standups, review PRs, and make real-time technical calls. That's 10–25 hours a week of actual hands-on leadership.
Weeks 3–12
04

Hiring & Scaling

We source, screen, and help onboard your first — or next — engineering hires. We build out interview loops and rubrics that keep working long after we're gone.
Ongoing
05

Transition or Retain

Either hand off to a full-time CTO we helped you find, or keep the fractional engagement going as you scale.
Month 4+
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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cómo se diferencia un CTO fraccionario de un asesor técnico?

Un asesor te da opiniones en llamadas mensuales. Un CTO fraccionario está realmente integrado — asistiendo a standups, revisando código, tomando decisiones de arquitectura, liderando contrataciones. Hay verdadera responsabilidad operacional aquí, no solo aporte. Piénsalo como un CTO en funcionamiento a tiempo parcial.

¿Todavía necesito un CTO fraccionario si tengo una agencia de desarrollo?

Especialmente entonces. Las agencias construyen lo que les dices que construyan. Sin supervisión técnica senior de tu lado, no puedes evaluar sus decisiones de arquitectura, la calidad de su código, o si están inflando horas con complejidad innecesaria. Un CTO fraccionario actúa como tu defensor técnico y se asegura de que realmente estés obteniendo lo que estás pagando.

¿Cuántas horas por semana trabaja realmente un CTO fraccionario?

Típicamente 10 a 25 horas por semana, dependiendo de dónde estés y qué necesites. Las startups en etapa inicial generalmente comienzan con 10–15 horas para trabajo estratégico y contratación. Las empresas que se acercan a una ronda de financiamiento o que están escalando activamente su equipo de ingeniería tienden a necesitar 20–25 horas para el trabajo operativo más pesado.

¿Qué incluye el plan de 90 días?

El plan cubre tu evaluación de arquitectura actual, cambios de stack recomendados, hoja de ruta de contratación con cronogramas, postura de seguridad y cumplimiento, oportunidades de consolidación de proveedores, e hitos entregables basados en resultados. Está formateado para presentación ante la junta para que los inversores puedan leer tu estrategia técnica junto con tu plan de negocio.

¿Escribirá código el CTO fraccionario?

Nuestro enfoque es liderazgo técnico, no escribir código. Revisamos lo que producen tus ingenieros, establecemos estándares de arquitectura y mantenemos todo funcionando sin obstáculos. Si necesitas desarrollo práctico, podemos definir el alcance por separado — o ayudarte a contratar a los desarrolladores correctos a través de nuestra red.

¿Cómo manejas la transición a un CTO a tiempo completo?

Escribimos la descripción del puesto, aprovechamos nuestra red para candidatos, lideramos las entrevistas técnicas y ejecutamos una transición estructurada. Cada decisión de arquitectura se documenta como un ADR en el camino. Tu nuevo CTO entra a una base de código limpia, documentación clara y una cultura de ingeniería que realmente funciona — no un desorden que tengan que desenredar en el primer día.

Fractional CTO from $6,000/mo
Fixed monthly fee. No equity required. 90-day plan included.
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