Engagements
designed for the stage
you're in.
Whether you need direct leadership from a fractional CTO at the table, strategic advisory support on a monthly cadence, or a fixed deliverable on a deadline - we structure the engagement around where you're at right now.
Three paths. All of them lead to building your sustainable business.
Overview
Fractional CTO
We step into the CTO role on a part-time basis and stay there. That means owning the technology bet, working directly with founders on commercial decisions, and being accountable for what engineering ships and how it's built.
This works best for seed to Series B teams that have product-market signal, an engineering team growing faster than its leadership, and a board or investors expecting a credible technical story.
What's included
- Technology strategy and roadmap
- Architecture, security, and platform decisions
- Hiring, org design, and engineering leadership
What you walk away with
- A clear technical direction the whole team can name
- An engineering org that ships on a predictable cadence
- Founders who stop being the bottleneck on technical decisions
Overview
Advisory Retainer
A monthly engagement built around regular touchpoints. That includes a recurring leadership sync, design and code reviews on demand, and async access when something urgent surfaces.
It fits teams that already have a head of engineering or strong tech lead, but want senior backup for the decisions that are tricky to get wrong and hard to walk back.
What's included
- Architecture and code audits
- Coaching and 1:1s for product and engineering teams
- Roadmap sanity-checks and delivery support
What you walk away with
- Higher engineering bar without slowing the team down
- Senior judgment available the week you need it
- Fewer expensive rewrites six months from now
Overview
Scoped Projects
A defined piece of work with a written scope, a delivery date, and a deliverable you can hand to a board, an acquirer, or your own engineering team. No open-ended retainers dressed up as projects.
Common asks: pre-investment or pre-acquisition technical diligence, an honest read on an existing architecture, a security and reliability audit, or a concrete migration plan from where you are to where you need to be.
What's included
- Technical due diligence
- Architecture and security audits
- Migration and modernization roadmaps
What you walk away with
- A written deliverable with findings and recommendations
- Clear next steps your team can actually execute on
- Confidence for you, your board, or your buyer
How We Work
Startups Need Structure.
Velocity without structure is just debt with momentum. Here's the loop we run, whether the engagement lasts six weeks or two years.
Get Honest
We start with a candid look at where the business is going and what your technology actually does, and doesn't, support today.
Find the Load-Bearing Walls
We identify the few decisions and systems that everything else depends on, and the ones quietly holding you back.
Try Before You Buy
Start with a focused 4 week product and technology audit. A deep dive into your vision, codebase, stack, team, and process, with no long term commitment required up front.
Go Deep
We sit alongside your team, dig into the real work, talk to engineers and stakeholders, and pressure test the assumptions your business is currently built on.
Walk Away With a Plan
You receive a detailed runbook with our findings and a 120 day action plan you can run with on your own, or together with us in a longer engagement.
Your technology is at your core, but it's not your identity.
Let's talk about the company you're actually trying to build.