Advisory
Technical leadership without the $200k hire.
You're making six-figure technical decisions with nobody in your corner. A Fractional CTO gives you a senior engineer for strategy calls, investor questions, architecture decisions, and hiring — without the full-time commitment.
What you get
- A trusted technical voice in every investor meeting and commercial conversation
- Architecture decisions made by someone who's shipped, not someone who's guessing
- Hiring interviews led by an engineer who knows what 'senior' actually means
- A written technical roadmap aligned to your business milestones
- An honest assessment of your current codebase and the risks inside it
- Conflict-of-interest-free advice — we'll tell you to buy off-the-shelf when that's right
Right for you if ...
Not sure this is the right engagement? Book a free 30-min call and we will tell you honestly.
- 01
You're approaching a seed or Series A and investors are asking about your architecture
- 02
You're about to hire your first engineers and need someone to set the bar
- 03
You've inherited a tech team and don't know if what they're building is right
- 04
You need a technical voice in the room for commercial or investor conversations
What we cover
Investor & board support
Technical questions from VCs, due diligence support, architecture diagrams for the data room. We prepare you and join calls when it matters.
Architecture & technology decisions
Monolith or microservices. Build or buy. Which database. What to rewrite. We make the call with you and document the reasoning — so the next engineer understands it.
First engineering hire
Defining the role, writing the job spec, running the technical interview, and setting the bar before the first offer goes out. Your first hire sets the culture.
Technical roadmap ownership
A 6–12 month roadmap written in business outcomes, not tickets. What you can demo, what unlocks your next milestone, and what's a distraction.
Team and vendor review
Is your existing dev team or agency doing good work? We read the PRs, sit in the sprint reviews, and give you an honest answer without the politics.
Conflict-of-interest-free advice
We will sometimes tell you to use an off-the-shelf tool instead of building. We've done it for our own clients. Advice that protects your runway is how we keep clients for years.
Engagement details
Engagement tiers
Formats
How we work
01
Technical baseline
We review your existing codebase, infrastructure, and team setup. We don't advise in a vacuum — the business model shapes the risk profile.
02
Roadmap session
A structured 2-hour session to define your 6-month technical milestones and the decisions that need to be made to get there.
03
Embedded advisory
Weekly or async availability. We join your team standup, attend investor calls, review hiring decisions, and weigh in on architecture choices as they arise.
04
Monthly review
A written monthly summary: decisions made, risks identified, what's changed in the roadmap and why. You have a record, not just memories of a call.
Right-fit packages
Fixed prices. No hidden fees.
Common questions
Ready to ship?
Ready to scope your idea?
30 minutes. We tell you exactly what your MVP needs and what it will cost. No obligation, no pitch deck.
We take 2 new Sprint clients per month. If we're at capacity, we'll tell you on the call and offer a waitlist.