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Hire a Fractional CTO — matched in 48 hours

Senior technical leadership for your roadmap, architecture, and engineering hires — without a full-time CTO salary. Tell us your stage and stack; we shortlist 2–3 matched CTOs.

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No placement fees. You pay the executive directly, only if you hire.

When founders bring in a Fractional CTO

If one of these sounds like your company, a fractional CTO is built for exactly this moment.

No technical co-founder

You're a non-technical founder making technology bets in the dark — stack choices, agency vendors, and hiring decisions you have no way to sanity-check.

Too early for a full-time CTO

You need senior technical judgement now, but a $250K+ full-time CTO is months — and a fundraise — away. A fractional CTO gives you that judgement at a fraction of the cost.

Post-fundraise tech debt

You raised on a prototype and now the codebase is buckling under real users. You need someone to triage the debt, set the architecture, and build the team to scale it.

What your CTO delivers in 90 days

Senior judgement applied to your actual situation — not a generic playbook.

  • A technology roadmap tied to your next 2–3 business milestones
  • Architecture review and a prioritised technical-debt plan
  • An engineering org and hiring plan — roles, levels, and where to find them
  • Build-vs-buy and vendor decisions on your biggest infrastructure questions
  • Security and reliability assessment with concrete fixes ranked by risk

Typical Fractional CTO rate

Part-time engagement, 10–25 hrs/week

$8,000–$15,000/mo

A full-time CTO typically costs $250,000–$400,000/year plus equity. A fractional CTO delivers the same seniority at roughly 30–50% of that.

Get matched

Request a Fractional CTO match

Tell us about your company. We review your brief the same day and shortlist 2–3 matched CTOs within 48 hours.

Fractional CTO — common questions

How fast can a fractional CTO start?
Most of our matched CTOs can begin within 1–2 weeks. After you submit a brief, we shortlist 2–3 candidates within 48 hours, you interview them, and engagements typically start the following week.
How many hours a week does a fractional CTO work?
Engagements usually run 10–25 hours per week depending on your stage. Early companies often start with a lighter advisory load and scale up around a fundraise, a migration, or a hiring push.
Will a fractional CTO write code, or just advise?
Both happen, depending on the brief. Some fractional CTOs are hands-on in the codebase for early teams; others focus on architecture, hiring, and leading your existing engineers. Tell us which you need and we match accordingly.
What does a fractional CTO cost vs a full-time hire?
A full-time CTO typically costs $250,000–$400,000 per year plus equity. A fractional CTO delivers senior leadership at roughly 30–50% of that, with no long-term commitment.
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