Fractional CTO
A part-time CTO for startups that cannot afford the wrong technical choices.
When the product gets more complex, the team grows or investors ask harder technical questions, you need someone experienced to lead the technical side.
When you need one
The problem is rarely the code itself. The need appears when technical choices start to affect speed, risk and credibility.
- No senior person owns the technical roadmap and postponed decisions keep piling up.
- Product, engineering and sales talk too little or too late.
- You are about to hire developers without clear processes, standards or order.
- Investors, enterprise customers or partners are starting to ask deeper technical questions.
Teams it works best for
- Startups with a young technical team that needs direction, not just more hands.
- Non-technical founders who want to judge roadmap, hiring and architecture with more confidence.
- Startups entering a stage where compliance, reliability and security really matter. A part-time CISO can help here too.
What we take care of
A part-time CTO brings experience, priorities and standards where technical uncertainty could hurt the business.
- A technical and product roadmap with dependencies, trade-offs and a sustainable order.
- Choices on architecture, stack, build-vs-buy, technical debt and readiness for customers or investors.
- Technical team setup: who to hire first, vendor roles, onboarding and ownership.
- Explaining the technical side clearly to founders, the board, investors and due diligence.
How we work
We start where the risk is highest today: roadmap, architecture, development, hiring or preparation for investors and customers.
Technical review
We look at the backlog, architecture, team and friction points between product and technology.
→ Risks and priorities
Decisions and standards
We set decisions, standards and a working rhythm on the areas slowing you down most.
→ Roadmap and ownership
Preparation
We make the technical side clear for hiring, due diligence, enterprise customers and fundraising.
→ A credible technical story
FAQ
Isn't an external dev team enough?
A vendor can build. But if priorities, ownership and decision criteria are missing, the problem is not development capacity. It is technical direction.
Is this only for very complex products?
No. It matters as soon as technical choices start to affect hiring, delivery speed, pricing, fundraising or demanding customers.
Can it help with investors or enterprise customers?
Yes. Part of the value is making the technical side clear when due diligence, security questionnaires or reliability requirements arrive.
Is technology steering the company without a clear lead? Let's talk.
In a first conversation we work out whether you need a part-time CTO or CISO, broader advisory or technical preparation for your next round.
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