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.
项目失败的原因
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.
合规
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.
我们构建的内容
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.
我们的流程
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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常见问题
Fractional CTO 与技术顾问有什么区别？
顾问写报告然后离开。Fractional CTO 与你的团队融为一体——参加站会、做招聘决策、参加董事会会议，并在几个月或几年内对技术成果负责。我们对结果负责，而不仅仅是可交付物。
Fractional CTO 每周工作多少小时？
通常根据合作层级，每周 15 到 25 小时。包括与创始人的策略会议、Slack 异步支持、与工程团队的互动、架构工作和董事会准备。大多数 Series A 创业公司发现 20 小时是最佳平衡点。
你是否接受股权作为报酬？
不接受。我们采用现金月度固定费用制。股权会产生利益冲突——我们希望在自建或购买、团队变更和技术方向等问题上给你诚实的建议，而不受任何股权的影响。
你之后能帮我们招聘全职 CTO 吗？
可以。大多数合作都包含计划性过渡。我们编写职位描述、通过我们的人脉招募候选人、进行技术面试，并管理为期 30 天的交接。我们的许多成功招聘都来自我们自己人脉网络的直接推荐。
你支持哪些 SaaS 技术栈？
我们可以处理现代 SaaS 栈——Next.js、React、Node.js、Python、Go、PostgreSQL、AWS、GCP、Vercel 和 Supabase 都很常见。我们在建议方面与技术栈无关。如果最佳方案是 Rails 或 Elixir，我们会告诉你并帮你招聘相关人才。
你能多快开始？
大多数合作在签署后一周内开始。我们在前五个工作日内进行付费技术评估，并提交一份优先级排序的建议报告。之后，我们直接开始执行你的最高影响力项目。
Fractional CTO from $10,000/mo
Month-to-month. No equity. 30-day termination clause.
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