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.
專案失敗的原因
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.
合規
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.
我們構建的內容
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.
我們的流程
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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常見問題
Fractional CTO 與技術顧問有什麼差異？
顧問寫報告後就離開。Fractional CTO 會與你的團隊緊密合作——參加日立會議、主導招聘決策、參與董事會會議，並在數月或數年間對技術成果負責。我們對結果負責，而不是交付物。
Fractional CTO 每週工作多少小時？
通常每週 15 至 25 小時，取決於合作層級。涵蓋與創辦人的策略會議、Slack 非同步支援、工程團隊互動、架構工作和董事會準備。大多數 Series A 新創公司發現 20 小時是最佳平衡點。
你們接受股權作為報酬嗎？
不接受。我們採用現金月度留任制。股權會造成利益衝突——我們想在 build-vs-buy 決策、團隊調整和技術方向上給你誠實的建議，而不受資本表中任何持股的影響。
稍後你們可以幫助我們招聘全職 CTO 嗎？
可以。大多數合作都包含計畫好的過渡。我們撰寫職位描述、通過我們的網絡尋找候選人、進行技術面試，並管理為期 30 天的交接。我們的許多安置來自我們專業網絡的直接推薦。
你們使用哪些 SaaS 技術棧？
我們涵蓋現代 SaaS 棧——Next.js、React、Node.js、Python、Go、PostgreSQL、AWS、GCP、Vercel 和 Supabase 都很常見。我們在建議上不受技術棧限制。如果你的最佳選擇是 Rails 或 Elixir，我們會告訴你並幫助你招聘相關人才。
你們多快可以開始？
大多數合作在簽署後一週內開始。我們在前五個工作天進行付費技術評估，並交付一份包含優先建議的書面報告。之後，我們立即開始執行你最高影響力的項目。
Fractional CTO from $10,000/mo
Month-to-month. No equity. 30-day termination clause.
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