What is a Fractional CTO engagement?

A part-time executive engagement where an experienced technology leader helps define strategy, hires senior engineers, improves engineering operations, and guides scalable architecture without the cost of a full-time CTO.

How do you work with existing teams and executives?

We embed with product and engineering leaders to align technology decisions to business outcomes, mentor engineering managers, and create clear handoffs and roadmaps for the executive team.

Fractional CTO

Part-time executive guidance for technology strategy, scaling, and leadership

Gain experienced CTO leadership on a flexible basis. We help founders and executives make confident technical decisions, hire senior engineers, and build durable operating models that scale.

Overview

Startups and growth-stage companies often need senior technical leadership but cannot yet justify a full-time executive. Fractional CTO engagements provide practical, hands-on guidance to accelerate product delivery, improve engineering effectiveness, and reduce technical risk.

We partner with founders, investors, and product teams to align technology decisions with business outcomes — from roadmap prioritization and architecture to hiring and operational readiness.

When to consider a Fractional CTO

Preparing for rapid growth or an enterprise sales motion
Needing credible technical leadership for investors or partners
Replatforming or making architecture trade-offs before scaling
Recovering from outages, security incidents, or operational debt

Core Services

Strategy & Roadmaps

Align technology investments to measurable business outcomes and create a pragmatic roadmap with clear milestones and risk mitigations.

Architecture & Scalability

Design maintainable architectures, cost models, and scaling plans that prevent surprise operational costs as you grow.

Hiring & Org Design

Recruiting strategy, interview design, org structure, and manager coaching to build a high-performing engineering organization.

Operational Excellence

CI/CD, SRE practices, incident response, runbooks, and observability to operate reliably at scale.

Security & Compliance

Threat modeling, secure design, vendor risk, and compliance planning to reduce exposure and meet regulatory needs.

Crisis & Recovery

Guidance and hands-on support for outage recovery, security incidents, and high-pressure technical decision-making.

Our approach

We begin with a focused assessment to identify the highest-leverage interventions. Engagements are tailored — from weekly advisory time to an embedded, hands-on leader who drives execution. We emphasize measurable outcomes, knowledge transfer, and building internal capability so leadership can transition confidently when the time comes.

Deliverables

Executive technology roadmap and cost model
Hiring plan, interview kits, and candidate evaluation
Architecture review and migration plans
Operational playbooks, runbooks, and incident plans
Knowledge-transfer and leadership handoff documentation

Why partner with us

We combine hands-on engineering experience with executive-level strategy. Our fractional CTOs have run engineering teams, led large-scale migrations, and advised boards — we bring that experience into every engagement so you can move faster with less risk.

Engagement process

Engage

Align on goals, scope, and outcomes.

Assess

Technical due diligence, org health, and risk analysis.

Plan

Roadmap, hiring, architecture and cost trade-offs.

Execute

Deliver hands‑on engineering leadership and vendor coordination.

Handoff

Operationalize practices and transfer knowledge.