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Technical Leadership
Fractional CTOSaaS ArchitectureBoard Readiness

初创公司与 SaaS 的兼职 CTO

无需全职成本的嵌入式技术领导力

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.

项目失败的原因

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.

合规

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.

我们构建的内容

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.

我们的流程

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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常见问题

兼职 CTO 与技术顾问有什么区别?

顾问在月度电话中给您意见。兼职 CTO 真正地嵌入其中——参加站会、审查代码、做出架构决策、领导招聘。这里有真正的运营责任,而不仅仅是建议。可以把它看作是一个兼职日程的在职 CTO。

如果我已经有开发机构,我还需要兼职 CTO 吗?

特别需要。机构会构建你告诉他们构建的东西。没有您这边的高级技术监督,您无法评估他们的架构选择、代码质量或他们是否用不必要的复杂性来填充工时。兼职 CTO 充当您的技术倡导者,确保您真正得到您付费的东西。

兼职 CTO 每周实际工作多少小时?

通常每周 10 到 25 小时,具体取决于您所处的阶段和您的需求。早期初创公司通常从 10–15 小时开始,用于战略和招聘工作。接近融资或积极扩展工程团队的公司往往需要 20–25 小时来处理更重的运营工作。

90 天计划包括什么?

该计划涵盖您当前的架构评估、推荐的堆栈更改、带有时间表的招聘路线图、安全和合规态势、供应商整合机会和基于里程碑的可交付成果。它的格式适合董事会使用,以便投资者可以将您的技术战略与您的业务计划并排阅读。

兼职 CTO 会写代码吗?

我们的重点是技术领导力,不是写代码。我们审查您的工程师的成果、制定架构标准并保持事务畅通。如果您需要实际动手的开发,我们可以单独确定范围——或帮助您通过我们的网络聘请合适的开发人员。

您如何处理向全职 CTO 的过渡?

我们编写职位描述、利用我们的网络寻找候选人、领导技术面试并运行结构化交接。每个架构决策都沿途记录为 ADR。您的新 CTO 进入一个干净的代码库、清晰的文档和一个实际正常运作的工程文化——而不是他们必须从第一天开始解开的混乱。

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