Fractional and interim CTO
You are raising, scaling, or losing your CTO, and every technical decision now carries investor weight. We give you executive technology judgement at 1 to 3 days a week: embedded, accountable, and hands-on when it moves the work forward.
What fractional means here
The market uses these words loosely, so we won’t. An advisor gives you an hour of opinion a month and executes nothing. An interim works full time for a fixed term and carries the function. A fractional CTO sits between the two: part-time by design, but owning real deliverables. We work all three modes and will tell you plainly which one your situation needs. Often the honest answer is smaller than the one being sold to you.
What we own
- Technology strategy and the build-versus-buy calls behind it
- Architecture decisions and their documentation
- Hiring: process design, interviews, and closing your founding engineers
- Vendor selection and management
- Board and investor engagement, including due diligence preparation
- Engineering culture: code review, delivery practice, and the 1-1 discipline
- Hands-on engineering when it unblocks the team
When to engage us
You are raising or scaling and need a credible technical voice in the room
Your CTO is leaving and you need continuity while you search
You run a venture studio and want shared technology leadership across the portfolio
You need to qualify technical feasibility before committing capital
How the engagement runs
We start with a paid discovery that converts “we need technical leadership” into specific goals with numbers and dates attached. Then a working cadence: written async updates as the default, a weekly 30 minutes with leadership, and quarterly goal reviews. Part-time executive arrangements fail on communication, trust, or vague goals. We have structured the engagement so all three are handled before they cost you anything.
What comes next
Engagements grow into one another. Most clients arrive at one step and stay for the next.
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Engagement shape
1 to 3 days per week, 3 to 12+ months. Engagements often begin as a prototype or discovery project and grow from the evidence.