Fractional CTO

The business works. Now let's scale the tech.

You've got a product in market and a small team. A lot of it was built quickly, often with AI, and without a technical lead. It was enough to get customers, but now the same speed is working against you. Small changes take longer than they used to, systems are going down, and the bugs are piling up faster than you can fix them.

This is starting to cost you. Customers are accepting of the early bugs, but they're getting annoyed. You're not sure whether to hire, rewrite, or keep prompting your way through it. A full-time CTO at $250K+ is a decision you're not ready to make, and a generalist engineer won't set the direction.

That's where I help you. I work with earlier-stage software companies as a fractional CTO, putting technical leadership in place while the product is outgrowing how it was built.

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Core Services

What changes when someone technical owns the direction?

Growth is Reliable

Your team can ship features without breaking things, and they don't bog down due to technical debt. The software grows with the customer base, and your team can predict bottlenecks before they arrive.

Problems are Caught Early

You rely less on testers (or customers) to report problems. Your engineering team either catches bugs before they reach production, or they know about the issues and can fix them quickly.

You are Secure

Security is a rapidly changing field, and it's difficult to keep up with the latest best practices. You get someone who is up to date on the latest threats and how to protect your data.

Hiring is a Success

You're about to make a first senior hire, or pay someone to rebuild what you have. Both are easy to get wrong from the outside. You get an independent read on what the role actually is, what to buy, and someone in your corner while you decide.

Engagement

How an engagement works

It starts with a discovery call. A health check and a retainer are separate decisions after that.

Start here

Discovery call

You walk through where the product is and what's getting expensive, and we figure out whether a health check, a retainer, or both is the right next step.

From the call, either or both

Optional

Health check

If you're not ready to hire yet, this is a one-off, lower-risk look at the technology.

You get a written proposal, a few pages at most. It names the risks, how urgent each one is, what happens to them as you scale, and the tradeoffs already in how things are built. It also suggests where to go, and those suggestions are solutions. We go through the proposal together on a call.

If you later start a retainer, the price of the health check counts toward it.

Ongoing

Retainer

If you want ongoing help, we choose based on how you want to spend your time.

Advisor

$4,000/month

I help you set the direction: what the roadmap should look like, technical concerns that may be missing, and what is reasonable to build in the time you have. You and your team still own the execution. I'm in the room to give advice on important decisions, and I stay close enough to guide the team as they execute.

Best when you want to keep running the tech side, and want a second opinion on key decisions.

Hands-On

$10,000/month

I take responsibility for making the vision happen. That means owning the plan and the execution: driving the technical work, and staying in it until the product operates the way it needs to.

Best when you want to focus on sales, operations, and the rest of the business, and delegate responsibility for technology leadership.

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