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Technical Leadership

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Servicios de CTO Outsourced

Liderazgo Técnico Integrado Sin el Costo de Tiempo Completo

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.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

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.

Cumplimiento

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.

Qué construimos

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.

Nuestro proceso

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

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

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

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

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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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un CTO fraccionario y un asesor técnico?

Un asesor técnico da opiniones. Un CTO fraccionario es dueño de los resultados. Estamos en tus standups, revisando pull requests, entrevistando candidatos, escribiendo documentos de arquitectura. Estamos integrados en tus operaciones con entregables mensuales de responsabilidad — no sentados en una junta asesora trimestral ofreciendo orientación de alto nivel desde una distancia segura.

¿Cuántas horas por semana trabaja realmente un CTO fraccionario?

Los compromisos típicos van de 10 a 25 horas por semana dependiendo del alcance. Pero cotizamos por entregables, no por horas. Estás pagando por decisiones de arquitectura, resultados de contratación y mejoras en velocidad de ingeniería — no por que alguien ocupe un asiento en tu standup.

¿Puedes ayudarnos a contratar un CTO de tiempo completo para reemplazarte?

Sí, y en realidad lo fomentamos cuando el momento es el adecuado. Escribimos la descripción del trabajo, diseñamos el ciclo de entrevistas técnicas, evaluamos candidatos finales, y ejecutamos una transferencia de conocimiento estructurada de 30 días. La mayoría de clientes hacen la transición a un CTO de tiempo completo entre 6 y 12 meses en el compromiso.

¿Trabajas con equipos que ya tienen un VP de Ingeniería?

Esto surge frecuentemente. Un VP de Ingeniería gestiona personas y ejecución de procesos. Un CTO es dueño de la estrategia técnica, arquitectura y decisiones de proveedores externos. Los dos roles se complementan bien — pero no son el mismo trabajo. Definimos límites claros en el día uno para que no haya superposición o confusión.

¿Qué stacks tecnológicos tienes experiencia?

Nuestra experiencia más profunda es en ecosistemas modernos de JavaScript y TypeScript — Next.js, React, Node.js, Supabase, AWS, y Vercel. También evaluamos y asesoramos sobre Python, Ruby, Go, y stacks mobile. Para dominios especializados, traemos especialistas verificados de nuestra red en lugar de pretender saberlo todo.

¿Qué tan rápido puedes empezar después de firmar?

La mayoría de compromisos comienzan dentro de una semana después de firmar el contrato. El primer entregable — una evaluación técnica escrita de tu stack, equipo y procesos — llega antes de fin de semana uno. Los fundadores necesitan respuestas ahora, no el próximo trimestre, y así es como estructuramos todo.

Fractional CTO from $5,000/mo

Fixed monthly retainer. No hourly billing. Cancel anytime after 90 days.

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