# Fractional CTO

URL: https://qualixsolutions.com/services/fractional-cto/

A seasoned CTO embedded in your business part-time making architecture decisions, managing your dev team, and keeping your technology aligned with where your company is going.

Senior technical leadership without the $300K salary and 6 month search.

#### Why this matters

- 23%: of startups fail because they don't have the right team. For non-technical founders, the missing piece is almost always senior technical leadership - someone who can make architecture decisions, vet vendors, and hold dev teams accountable.
- 30%: increase in operational efficiency and 20% reduction in IT costs at organizations with effective technical leadership. The impact of a strong CTO isn't theoretical - it shows up directly in execution speed and cost control.
- 45%: average budget overrun on large software projects. The single highest-leverage intervention is putting experienced technical leadership on the project before it starts - not after it's already over budget.

#### What you get

- Technology Strategy & Roadmap
- Architecture & Tech Stack Decisions
- Team Management & Hiring
- Vendor & Agency Oversight
- Security, Compliance & Risk Management
- Investor & Board-Ready Technical Communication

Service brief: typically 3+ months. Good for Non-technical Founders, Business Owners, CEOs scaling a product, preparing for fundraising

#### How we deliver this

1. Discovery workshop: We sit with you, map your workflows, users, and constraints. You leave with a scoped brief — not a proposal full of assumptions.
2. Architecture & Design: System design and UX decisions made before a line of production code.
3. Build: Sprint-based delivery with demos every cycle and one accountable lead.
4. Ship: Deployment to your infrastructure with docs and a clean handover.
5. Stabilize: 30 days of post-launch stabilization while real usage settles in.

#### FAQs

Q: Who is a Fractional CTO for?

Non-technical founders who need someone to make technology decisions they can trust. CEOs who have a dev team but no senior technical leader overseeing quality and direction. Business owners who are working with an agency or outsourced team and need an independent technical voice on their side. If you're making technology bets without a technical co-founder or CTO - that's exactly who this is for.