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Fractional CTO Services
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Fractional CTO Services for SaaS Startups

Senior Technical Leadership Without the Full-Time Hire

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.

프로젝트가 실패하는 이유

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.

컴플라이언스

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.

우리가 만드는 것

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.

우리의 프로세스

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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자주 묻는 질문

Fractional CTO와 기술 컨설턴트의 차이점은 무엇인가요?

컨설턴트는 보고서를 작성하고 떠납니다. Fractional CTO는 팀에 임베드되어 스탠드업에 참석하고, 채용 결정을 내리고, 이사회 회의에 참석하며, 수개월 또는 수년에 걸쳐 기술적 결과를 소유합니다. 우리는 결과물이 아닌 성과에 책임을 집니다.

Fractional CTO는 주당 몇 시간을 근무하나요?

일반적으로 인게이지먼트 등급에 따라 주당 15~25시간입니다. 여기에는 설립자와의 전략 세션, 비동기 Slack 가용성, 엔지니어링 팀 상호작용, 아키텍처 작업, 이사회 준비가 포함됩니다. 대부분의 Series A 스타트업은 20시간이 최적의 포인트라고 생각합니다.

보상으로 지분을 받나요?

아니요. 우리는 현금 기반 월간 리테이너로 일합니다. 지분은 이해 상충을 만듭니다. 우리는 빌드 대 바이, 팀 변화, 기술 방향에 대해 자본 구조에 이해관계가 없는 정직한 조언을 제공하길 원합니다.

나중에 풀타임 CTO 채용을 도와줄 수 있나요?

네. 대부분의 인게이지먼트는 계획된 전환을 포함합니다. 우리는 직무 설명을 작성하고, 네트워크를 통해 후보자를 발굴하고, 기술 면접을 진행하고, 체계적인 30일 인수인계를 관리합니다. 우리의 여러 배치는 우리 자신의 전문 네트워크의 직접 추천을 통해 이루어졌습니다.

어떤 SaaS 기술 스택을 지원하나요?

Next.js, React, Node.js, Python, Go, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP, Vercel, Supabase 등 현대적인 SaaS 스택 전반에 걸쳐 일합니다. 우리의 권장 사항은 스택에 구애받지 않습니다. Rails 또는 Elixir가 최선이라면, 그렇게 말씀드리고 이를 위한 채용을 지원합니다.

얼마나 빨리 시작할 수 있나요?

대부분의 인게이지먼트는 서명 후 일주일 이내에 시작됩니다. 처음 5업무일 내에 유료 기술 평가를 실시하고 우선순위가 지정된 권장 사항이 포함된 서면 보고서를 제공합니다. 그 이후, 우리는 가장 영향력 있는 항목의 실행으로 바로 이동합니다.

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