Fractional CTO & Technical Leadership
Technical decisions that survive the next 12 months.
Early architecture choices compound. We review what you have built, identify what will break under growth, and give you a sequenced plan — with the cost implications made explicit.
Signs you need this
Does this sound like your team?
- Infrastructure spend is climbing faster than usage
- Nobody can say confidently whether the stack will scale
- Technical debt is slowing every new feature
- You are hiring engineers without a technical strategy
Each of these is a symptom of a missing delivery function rather than a people problem. The fix is process and ownership, not working harder — which is exactly what this engagement installs.
Two to three days per week, month-to-month after an initial three-month period.
What you get
Concretely, here is what lands.
Architecture review
A written assessment of what scales, what breaks, and when.
Cost optimisation
Infrastructure spend analysed line by line against actual usage.
Debt reduction plan
Debt ranked by business impact, not engineering preference.
Hiring guidance
Which roles to hire, in what order, and how to assess them.
Common questions
When does a startup need a fractional CTO?
Usually when technical decisions have started outrunning the founding team's expertise but the company cannot yet justify a full-time CTO salary. Common triggers are a scaling event, a funding round, or rising infrastructure costs.
Do you write code?
No. This is a leadership and advisory engagement — architecture, cost, risk, hiring and technical strategy. If you need hands-on engineering, you need engineers, and we will help you hire them.
Can you support technical due diligence?
Yes. We prepare companies for investor technical due diligence, and also review target companies on the buy side.
Find out if this is the right engagement.
A free 30-minute audit. We will tell you which service actually solves your problem — including if the answer is none of them.
30 min · no pitch deck · one fix you can apply immediately