Your Engineering Team is Building. Your Investors Want a CTO on Deck.
If you're a Series A founder juggling architecture decisions and board slides, you've hit the inflection point where 'senior engineer' isn't enough anymore.
Technical strategy, architecture review, team hiring, and board reporting for Series A–B SaaS founders. Part-time CTO, full-time impact.
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.
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Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.
What Your Website Could Look Like
Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.
How We Build This Right
Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.
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.
What We Build
Purpose-built features for your industry.
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.
Built on a Modern, Secure Stack
Our Development Process
From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.
Technical Assessment
Week 1We 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.
Strategy & Roadmap
Week 2–3We 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.
Execution & Hiring
Month 1–3Then we start executing: architecture changes, hiring pipelines, vendor evaluations, process improvements. Your team sees measurable velocity improvements, not just slide decks.
Board Integration
Month 2–4We 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.
Transition or Retain
Month 6+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.
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