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Fractional CTO

Engineering leadership and delivery for teams without a full-time technical exec — roadmap, architecture, and a team that ships.

When engineering is the bottleneck, everything stalls

The roadmap keeps slipping and no one can say why with authority.

Architecture decisions are made by whoever is loudest — technical debt is compounding.

A non-technical founder can't evaluate their own engineers, vendors, or estimates.

The team has no one to escalate to, no standards, and no plan they believe in.

Investors or the board want a credible technical story the founder can't yet tell.

What you get

Not hours on a timesheet — decisions made, systems shipped, and a program that works.

Strategy in writing

A 12-month technical strategy tied to business milestones — durable, reviewable, shareable with the board.

Architecture calls made

Build-vs-buy, platform choices, and scalability decisions made by someone who has made them before.

A team that ships

Engineering standards, review cadence, hiring bar, and a roadmap the team actually believes in.

Board-ready narrative

The technical slides and talking points so investors understand the plan — not just the features.

Three shapes, one operator

Start where the pain is acute. Scale as trust is established.

CTO Advisory

~2 days/mo equivalent, async

$6,000 – $9,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Architecture reviews and decision memos
  • Roadmap oversight and prioritization guidance
  • Hiring support and interview loop design
  • Board-deck technical narrative
  • 1 live leadership sync per week (max)
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CTO Embedded

~1 day/week

$9,000 – $14,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Advisory
  • Ownership of 1–2 named initiatives
  • Active re-platform or scalability engagement
  • CI/CD and engineering ops standup
  • First senior hire support

Fractional CTO

~2 days/week

$14,000 – $18,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Embedded
  • Owns the engineering function
  • Roadmap, standards, and team management
  • Vendor and agency management
  • Board reporting
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Technical Assessment

$3,500 fixed fee

A 2-week deep-dive into your codebase, architecture, team, and roadmap. You leave with the top risks and a sequenced plan — whether we work together or not. Credits toward the first month of a retainer.

Your first 90 days

A predictable ramp with clear deliverables at each phase.

1

Weeks 1–2 — Assess

Codebase, architecture, team, roadmap, and tooling review. Deliver the Technical Assessment: top risks + sequenced plan.

2

Weeks 3–4 — Stabilize

Fix the highest-severity delivery blocker and install the review/release cadence.

3

Weeks 5–8 — Direction

Publish the 12-month technical strategy and target architecture. Align the board narrative.

4

Weeks 9–12 — Build the machine

Hiring plan in motion, standards adopted, roadmap shipping on cadence. Decide: continue Embedded or step up to Fractional-in-a-box.

Not the right fit?

We are selective about engagements. This may not be right if:

Pre-product with no engineers yet — you need a builder, not a leader.

Wants 40 hours/week of hands-on coding (that's a senior contractor; we'll refer you).

Needs someone available on-demand by phone all day — our model is async by design.

Ready to move?

The discovery call is free. We scope the engagement together, and you leave with a clear picture whether or not we work together.

Fractional CTO, CIO, CISO and AI Agent Engineering. Executive-level technology leadership for companies that need a senior technical partner without a full-time hire.

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