Fractional CTO for founders who need senior technical leadership
Senior technical leadership, on a fractional engagement. For founders and operators who need a CTO-level partner, but aren't ready (or don't need) to make a full-time C-level hire.
What a Fractional CTO actually does
Most early-stage companies don't need a full-time CTO. They need someone senior enough to make the right architectural calls, set up a team for delivery, and protect the business from the kind of technical decisions that quietly compound into expensive rewrites two years later.
I work as a fractional partner — embedded enough to own outcomes, light enough to keep your cap table and burn rate intact. Typical engagements are 1–3 days a week, with clear deliverables tied to your business stage.
When to bring in a Fractional CTO
- You're a non-technical founder and your current developer / agency reports into nobody senior
- You raised a pre-seed or seed round and need credible technical leadership in front of investors and customers
- Your platform works but is brittle, and you keep firefighting instead of shipping
- You're scaling a team and don't yet have someone to own architecture, hiring, and standards
- You inherited code from a previous team or agency and need an honest assessment before deciding what to fix
What you get
- Technical strategy aligned with revenue and product priorities — not architecture astronautics
- Direct involvement in architecture, code review, and the hardest engineering decisions
- Hiring support: technical interviews, levelling, and onboarding for your first engineers
- Vendor and stack decisions, including honest pushback when the choice doesn't fit the stage
- A direct line into product and business conversations, so technical roadmap and company roadmap stay aligned
How it differs from advisory or agencies
An advisor gives you opinions once a month. An agency builds what you ask for. A Fractional CTO owns outcomes: the platform, the team, and the technical bets that determine whether the business can scale.
I've spent 10+ years building and evolving products across e-commerce, logistics, and renewable energy. Most recently I rebuilt the AchieveCE platform — a project that took monthly revenue from $30K to $150K during my involvement.
FAQ
How many hours per week is a fractional engagement?
Typically 1–3 days per week, scaled up or down based on the stage. Early phases often need more hands-on involvement; later phases settle into a steady advisory cadence.
Do you replace our existing developers?
No. I work with your existing team (or help you build one). The goal is to make your engineering function effective, not to insert myself as a bottleneck.
Can you also write code?
Yes — I still ship code when it's the highest-leverage thing to do, especially in early MVP phases or when unblocking the team on critical paths.
A 30-minute call to talk through your current setup and what a fractional engagement could look like.