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Fractional CTO Services
Technical StrategyTeam HiringBoard Reporting

Services de CTO Fractionnaire pour SaaS Startups

Leadership Technique Senior Sans Embauche à Temps Plein

40+
SaaS Engagements
Series A through Series B
$10K
Starting Monthly
Predictable fixed fee
3.2×
Avg Engineering ROI
Within 6 months
0
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.

Où les projets échouent

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.

Conformité

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.

Ce que nous construisons

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.

Notre processus

01

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
02

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
03

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
04

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
05

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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Questions fréquentes

En quoi un CTO fractionnaire diffère-t-il d'un consultant technique ?

Un consultant rédige un rapport et s'en va. Un CTO fractionnaire s'intègre à votre équipe — en participant aux standups, en prenant des appels d'embauche, en assistant aux réunions du conseil d'administration et en prenant en charge les résultats techniques sur plusieurs mois ou années. Nous sommes responsables des résultats, pas des livrables.

Combien d'heures par semaine un CTO fractionnaire travaille-t-il ?

Typiquement 15 à 25 heures par semaine selon le niveau d'engagement. Cela couvre les séances de stratégie avec les fondateurs, la disponibilité asynchrone sur Slack, les interactions avec l'équipe d'ingénierie, le travail d'architecture et la préparation des rapports au conseil. La plupart des startups Series A trouvent que 20 heures est le point d'équilibre optimal.

Prenez-vous de l'equity en compensation ?

Non. Nous travaillons sur des retenues mensuelles en espèces uniquement. L'equity crée des incitations mal alignées — nous voulons vous donner des conseils honnêtes sur le build-vs-buy, les changements d'équipe et la direction technique sans aucun intérêt dans votre cap table qui trouble ce jugement.

Pouvez-vous nous aider à recruter un CTO à temps plein plus tard ?

Oui. La plupart des engagements incluent une transition planifiée. Nous rédigeons la spécification du poste, sourçons les candidats via notre réseau, menons les entretiens techniques et gérons une passation structurée de 30 jours. Plusieurs de nos placements sont venus de références directes de notre propre réseau professionnel.

Quels stacks technologiques SaaS utilisez-vous ?

Nous travaillons sur les stacks SaaS modernes — Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Vercel et Supabase sont tous courants. Nous sommes agnostiques face aux stacks dans nos recommandations. Si votre meilleur choix est Rails ou Elixir, nous vous le dirons et vous aiderons à recruter pour cela.

Avec quelle rapidité pouvez-vous commencer ?

La plupart des engagements commencent dans une semaine suivant la signature. Nous exécutons une évaluation technique payante dans les cinq premiers jours ouvrables et livrons un rapport écrit avec des recommandations priorisées. De là, nous passons directement à l'exécution sur vos éléments à plus fort impact.

Fractional CTO from $10,000/mo
Month-to-month. No equity. 30-day termination clause.
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