Fractional CTO

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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What you get ?

01

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

02

Architecture & Tech Stack Decisions

03

Team Management & Hiring

04

Vendor & Agency Oversight

05

Security, Compliance & Risk Management

06

Investor & Board-Ready Technical Communication

How we deliver this

Discovery workshop
[01]Discovery workshop

We sit with you, map your workflows, users, and constraints. You leave with a scoped brief — not a proposal full of assumptions.

[02]Architecture & Design

System design and UX decisions made before a line of production code.

[03]Build

Sprint-based delivery with demos every cycle and one accountable lead.

[04]Ship

Deployment to your infrastructure with docs and a clean handover.

[05]Stabilize

30 days of post-launch stabilization while real usage settles in.

Service Brief

Durationtypically 3+ months
Good For

Non-technical Founders, Business Owners, CEOs scaling a product, preparing for fundraising

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What we build with

FRONTEND
JavaScript
React
TypeScript
Next.js
MOBILE
React Native
BACKEND
.NET
Node.js
NestJS
Python
DATABASES
MS SQL
PostgreSQL
MariaDB
MySQL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
LangChain
LangGraph
OpenAI API
Anthropic Claude API
INTEGRATIONS
Stripe
Forte
Square
Authorize.Net
AUTHENTICATION & SECURITY
OAuth 2.0
JWT
SSO
Azure Entra ID
DEVOPS & CI/CD
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Terraform
CLOUD
Microsoft Azure
Amazon AWS
Cloudflare
Vercel

Don't see your stack? We've shipped on 15+. Tell us what you use

Work that proves it.

AI SaaS
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We are the eyes and ears of the operating room

Docucoder captures the procedure in real time and delivers a ready to review, CPT coded surgical report by the end of the case. No paperwork relay, no lost detail.

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Internal ERP / SaaS
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They handed us a spreadsheet. We built the system their material runs on.

A role based ERP that put procurement, inventory, budgets and approvals for a multi site construction firm into one platform, from the C suite to the job site.

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Operations Platform
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From spreadsheet commission chaos to one auditable source of truth

A telecom and IT services brokerage was running catalog, orders, and multi party commissions across a generic CRM and a sprawl of Excel. We rebuilt it as a single operational platform with the commission engine at its core.

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Two Sided Platform
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Built for a business where discretion is the product

A high end household and estate staffing agency was running its pipeline across spreadsheets, email, and WhatsApp. We replaced it with a two sided, stage gated platform where each side sees only the view it needs.

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Internal Platform
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One platform to run the whole brokerage

Westrow brokers perishable food into every major Canadian retailer. We rebuilt the system that connects their client, their retail customers, and every product spec in between, retiring a legacy database and a wall of spreadsheets for a single source of truth.

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FAQs about Fractional CTO

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.

Ready to get started with Our Fractional CTO Service

Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll give you honest direction, not a sales deck.

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