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Fractional CTOSaaS ArchitectureBoard Readiness

Your Technical Decisions Are Board-Level Risks. You Need a CTO Voice.

If you're a founder who just raised Series A and your dev team reports to you, you're one architecture mistake away from a down round.

Senior CTO-level guidance, 10–25 hours per week. Architecture, hiring, vendor evaluation, and board-ready technical strategy for venture-backed companies.

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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.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

Non-technical founders making architecture decisions by Googling
Risk: Technical debt piles up quietly until your Series A runway disappears into rewrites.
Outsourced dev team with no one reviewing their work
Risk: You're paying for code that nobody on your side can evaluate or maintain.
Board asks about infrastructure scalability and you go blank
Risk: Investors notice. Follow-on funding gets harder to close.
First engineering hire has nobody senior to report to
Risk: Wrong hires, wrong stack, cultural drift from day one.
Vendor contracts signed without anyone doing technical due diligence
Risk: 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
Risk: Before you've hit product-market fit, that overhead can sink you.

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Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

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How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

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.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

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.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsSupabaseVercelAWSPostgreSQLTerraformGitHub ActionsLinear

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Technical Discovery

Week 1

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.

02

90-Day Plan Delivery

Week 2

A board-ready strategic plan covering architecture, hiring, security posture, and milestone targets -- shared with founders and investors together.

03

Embedded Execution

Weeks 3–12

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.

04

Hiring & Scaling

Ongoing

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.

05

Transition or Retain

Month 4+

Either hand off to a full-time CTO we helped you find, or keep the fractional engagement going as you scale.

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Fractional CTO from $6,000/mo

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Frequently Asked Questions

An advisor gives you opinions on monthly calls. A fractional CTO is actually embedded — joining standups, reviewing code, making architecture decisions, leading hiring. There's real operational accountability here, not just input. Think of it as a working CTO on a part-time schedule.
Especially then. Agencies build what you tell them to build. Without senior technical oversight on your side, you can't evaluate their architecture choices, their code quality, or whether they're padding hours with unnecessary complexity. A fractional CTO acts as your technical advocate and makes sure you're actually getting what you're paying for.
Typically 10 to 25 hours per week, depending on where you are and what you need. Early-stage startups usually start at 10–15 hours for strategy and hiring work. Companies approaching a fundraise or actively scaling their engineering team tend to need 20–25 hours for the heavier operational stuff.
The plan covers your current architecture assessment, recommended stack changes, hiring roadmap with timelines, security and compliance posture, vendor consolidation opportunities, and milestone-based deliverables. It's formatted for board consumption so investors can read your technical strategy right alongside your business plan.
Our focus is technical leadership, not writing code. We review what your engineers produce, set architecture standards, and keep things unblocked. If you need hands-on development, we can scope that separately — or help you hire the right developers through our network.
We write the job description, tap our network for candidates, lead the technical interviews, and run a structured handoff. Every architecture decision gets documented as an ADR along the way. Your new CTO walks into a clean codebase, clear documentation, and an engineering culture that actually functions — not a mess they have to untangle on day one.
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