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Technical strategy
A written architecture and roadmap tied to your business goals: what to build, buy, or defer.
Fractional CTO
The technical leadership your startup needs, without the full-time hire.
For founders carrying the whole technical org on their back: a senior CTO who sets the architecture, leads the team, owns hiring, and de-risks your stack, at a fraction of the cost and commitment of a full-time exec.
$5,000 to $10,000 per month, month to monthNo lock-in, cancel any monthFractional CTO of a national platform since 2017
When founders call us
You don't need a CTO for the title. You need one for the decisions.
You're the de facto CTO, on top of being the CEO
Technical decisions are stacking up behind you while investors, customers, and hiring all need you too.
The first engineers are shipping without a rudder
No architecture, no code review culture, no roadmap. Velocity now, expensive rewrites later.
A raise or a customer needs answers you can't give yet
Due diligence, a SOC 2 request, or a security questionnaire just landed and there's no one to own it.
You hired a dev shop and lost the plot
Nobody on your side can tell whether the work is good, on-track, or building the right thing.
What you get
A senior technical partner, on the org chart the day we start.
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Engineering leadership
Code review standards, delivery cadence, and sane process for the team you have and the one you're hiring.
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Hiring & vendors
Job specs, interview loops, and candidate/vendor evaluation so your next hire is the right one.
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Security & readiness
Baseline security posture and the groundwork for SOC 2, HIPAA, or investor due diligence.
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Investor confidence
Technical narrative and diligence support that stands up in the data room.
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Hands-on when it counts
Not just advice. We'll get into the codebase and infrastructure when the situation calls for it.
How it works
Diagnose, embed, hand off.
Designed to add senior judgment fast, and to make itself unnecessary as you grow.
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Diagnose
A structured technical audit of your stack, team, and roadmap. You leave the first weeks with a written assessment and a prioritized plan, whether or not we continue.
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Embed
We join as your fractional CTO on a set cadence: leading architecture, unblocking the team, owning hiring, and reporting to you and the board in plain English.
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Hand off
As you grow into a full-time technical leader, we help you hire them and transfer everything cleanly. No lock-in, no dependency.
Proof, since 2017
Eight years as fractional CTO for a New York promotions agency.
In 2017 we led the development of Receipt Rewards, the OCR receipt-validation platform behind national promotions for Unilever, Knorr, Hellmann's, Scotch, Fandango, and Novamex: 100,000 receipts validated to date, across 3 to 6 national promotions a year. We've owned every part of its technology ever since: architecture, launches, and the 2 a.m. emergencies the client never has to think about.
“Always available, endlessly patient in explaining every decision, calm in every emergency, and the quality of the platform has never let us down.”
Michael Eliran, CEO of Gamma Communications, New York
Engagement
Simple, senior, no lock-in.
Retainers run $5,000 to $10,000 a month, month to month, agreed on the first call and firm from there. Start with a short diagnostic; you get a written plan whether or not we continue. Building with AI? The fixed-price AI security audit is the lowest-risk way to start.
Book a Free 30-Min Call →Diagnostic
$4,500-7,500fixed, two weeks
A fixed-scope technical audit and written roadmap. The lowest-risk way to work with us, and you keep the plan either way.
Advisory
From $5,000per month
Lighter-touch monthly access for founders who mostly need a senior sounding board.
Fractional CTO retainer
$5,000-10,000per month
Ongoing senior leadership on a set monthly cadence, scaled to your team and stage.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
Retainers run $5,000 to $10,000 per month, month to month, with no lock-in. Where you land in that range depends on cadence and the size of your team, and we agree the number on the first call before anything starts. If you'd rather begin with something smaller and fixed, the two-week technical audit is $4,500 to $7,500 and you keep the written roadmap either way.
Engagements typically run a set number of days per month on a monthly retainer, scaled to your stage. We'll size it together on the first call.
An agency builds what you ask for. A fractional CTO decides what should be built, keeps the team honest, and protects your equity and timeline, often by managing the agency for you.
Yes, when it moves the needle. We're a senior engineering team, not just advisors, and we get hands-on with architecture, critical features, and infrastructure.
We help you hire them and hand off cleanly. A good fractional engagement is designed to make itself unnecessary.
Book a free 30-minute call. If we're a fit, we'll propose a short diagnostic; if we're not, we'll point you toward someone who is.
Ready when you are
Bring us the technical decision that's been on your desk too long.
Thirty minutes is usually enough to know whether we're the right partner, and to leave you with a clearer path either way.
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