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Fractional CTO voor Startups & SaaS

Embedded technisch leiderschap zonder full-time kosten

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.

Waar projecten falen

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.

Compliance

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.

Wat we bouwen

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.

Ons proces

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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Veelgestelde vragen

Hoe verschilt een fractional CTO van een technische advisor?

Een advisor geeft je maandelijks advies op gesprekken. Een fractional CTO is echt ingebed — neemt deel aan standups, review code, maakt architectuurbeslissingen, leidt hiring. Er is hier echte operationele verantwoordelijkheid, niet alleen input. Denk eraan als een part-time CTO met volledige betrokkenheid.

Heb ik nog steeds een fractional CTO nodig als ik een dev agency heb?

Zeker dan. Agencies bouwen wat je hun vertelt te bouwen. Zonder senior technisch toezicht aan jouw kant kun je hun architectuurkeuzes, codequaliteit, of uren-padding niet evalueren. Een fractional CTO fungeert als jouw technische advocate en zorgt ervoor dat je echt wat je betaalt ook krijgt.

Hoeveel uur per week werkt een fractional CTO?

Typisch 10 tot 25 uur per week, afhankelijk van waar je bent en wat je nodig hebt. Early-stage startups beginnen meestal op 10–15 uur voor strategie en hiring. Bedrijven die een fundraise benaderen of hun engineeringteam actief schalen, hebben doorgaans 20–25 uur nodig voor zwaardere operationele werk.

Wat zit er in het 90-dagenplan?

Het plan dekt je huidige architectuurbeoordeling, aanbevolen stack-wijzigingen, hiring roadmap met tijdlijnen, security en compliance posture, vendor consolidatiemogelijkheden, en milestone-gebaseerde deliverables. Het is opgesteld voor boardconsumptie zodat investeerders je technische strategie naast je businessplan kunnen lezen.

Zal de fractional CTO code schrijven?

Ons focus ligt op technisch leiderschap, niet op code schrijven. We review wat je engineers produceren, stellen architectuurstandaarden in, en houden dingen ontblokkerd. Als je hands-on development nodig hebt, kunnen we dat apart scopen — of je helpen de juiste developers via ons netwerk in te huren.

Hoe verloopt de overgang naar een full-time CTO?

We schrijven de functieomschrijving, tap ons netwerk voor kandidaten, leiden de technische interviews, en voeren een gestructureerde handoff uit. Elke architectuurbeslissing wordt onderweg gedocumenteerd als ADR. Je nieuwe CTO stapt in een schone codebase, duidelijke documentatie, en een engineeringcultuur die echt functioneert — niet een chaos die ze eerst moeten ontwarren.

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