Stop Making Senior Decisions
On Your Own.
Architecture, hiring, vendor choices, code review, security posture — the decisions that compound for years if you get them right. Or wrong.
Founders Are Lonely In The Decisions That Matter Most.
Senior engineer interview. You don't know what to ask.
Vendor pitches three databases. You don't know which one fits.
Co-founder pushes a PR with a security smell. You can't articulate the concern.
Board asks 'what's our technical roadmap?' You make it up live.
You burn 4 hours googling 'should we use Kafka.'
Fractional CTO is in your Slack, on your calls, in your decisions.
The senior second opinion you should have had from day one.
Fractional CTO is an embedded technical leadership engagement — Slack-first, weekly cadence, monthly retainer. We're in the room when architecture, hiring, vendor, and security decisions get made.
Not a 1-hour-per-week 'advisor.' Not a full-time hire. Right-sized senior leadership for the stage you're in.
What we own when we're your technical leader.
Architecture Decisions
Stack choices, database design, service boundaries, vendor selection — the calls that compound for years.
Hiring & Interviewing
Job specs, interview loops, technical panel, offer calibration. We sit on panels and we'll tell you when not to hire.
Code Review & Quality
Async reviews on PRs that matter. Architectural feedback, security smells, scalability concerns.
Roadmap & Planning
Quarterly tech roadmap, capacity planning, build vs. buy decisions, sequencing for fundraising milestones.
Board & Investor Prep
Tech sections of investor decks, due-diligence prep, board updates — translated from engineering to investor English.
Engineering Process
Sprint cadence, on-call rotation, incident response, perf review structure — process that scales as the team grows.
You need a Fractional CTO if…
You don't need a full-time CTO. You need senior judgment in the room.
Most early-stage products don't need a full-time CTO — they need senior judgment available on the specific weeks it matters: hiring loops, architecture forks, vendor decisions, security posture, board prep.
Hiring a full-time CTO before product-market fit usually goes one of two ways: you under-utilize a senior leader, or you under-hire and end up with someone who can't actually make those calls.
Fractional CTO is the middle path. We embed at the cadence you actually need — weekly standing time, async Slack, on-call for the big decisions. We're senior enough to defend the calls and seasoned enough to know which ones matter.
When you outgrow us, we help you hire the full-time CTO who replaces us. That's the goal.
Pick the rescue that fits your mission.
Fixed-price, no surprises. Pick the closest tier and we'll confirm scope on the first call.
// What's included
- Cadence: Weekly call + async
- Slack response: Same day
- Architecture decisions: Advise
- Vendor / build-vs-buy: Advise
- Board / investor prep: 1× / quarter
- Hiring your replacement
- Minimum commitment: 3 months
// What's included
- Cadence: Weekly + 2× standups
- Slack response: <4 hours
- Architecture decisions: Co-decide
- Hiring panel participation: Senior roles
- Code review on PRs: Critical PRs
- Vendor / build-vs-buy: Co-decide + RFP
- Board / investor prep: Monthly
- On-call for incidents: Business hours
- Hiring your replacement
- Minimum commitment: 3 months
// What's included
- Cadence: Daily Slack + 3× weekly
- Slack response: <2 hours
- Architecture decisions: Own
- Hiring panel participation: All eng roles
- Code review on PRs: Daily queue
- Vendor / build-vs-buy: Owns + negotiates
- Board / investor prep: On-call
- On-call for incidents: Extended hours
- Hiring your replacement
- Minimum commitment: 3 months
// What's included
- Cadence: Sprint-paced
- Slack response: <2 hours
- Architecture decisions: Own + document
- Hiring panel participation: All eng roles
- Code review on PRs: Daily queue
- Vendor / build-vs-buy: Owns
- Board / investor prep: Diligence package
- On-call for incidents: Sprint-pace
- Hiring your replacement: If applicable
- Minimum commitment: 4-week sprint
Questions before we deploy?
Everything founders ask before kicking off a rescue mission.
Senior judgment, on-demand.
Stop making the biggest decisions of your company alone. Get a peer in the room.