FRACTIONAL CTO · CTO AS A SERVICE

A fractional CTO who builds. Committed to outcomes

Executive technical leadership without a full-time hire: architecture, hiring calls, investor due diligence — and code in the loop when it matters. From €1,040/month, billed by the hour.

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WHO IS IT FOR?

Who needs a CTO as a Service?

Startups without a CTO

You need technical direction to make architecture, stack and team decisions without hiring a full-time CTO.

Growing scale-ups

Your technical team is growing but lacks senior leadership to define processes, standards and technical roadmap.

Companies in transformation

You need to modernize your stack, migrate to cloud or integrate AI and lack the internal expertise.

A fractional CTO leading a planning session with the team

WHAT IS INCLUDED

What the service includes

Still weighing the format? What CTO as a service is, and when a fractional CTO is enough.

Architecture and technical roadmap

Architecture design, stack selection, technical roadmap definition aligned with business objectives.

Code reviews and mentoring

PR reviews, code standards definition, mentoring of existing technical team.

Technical team management

Hiring, onboarding, development process definition, sprints and delivery metrics.

Product decisions

Active participation in product decisions from the technical perspective. Trade-offs, prioritization and feasibility.

WHAT IT COSTS

What a fractional CTO costs

Billed by the hour at the CTO rate (from €65/h), monthly, with 30-day notice. No retainer lock-in. Three usual formats:

Advisory · 2 days a month

Architecture reviews, hiring calls, board prep. From €1,040/month.

Fractional · 1 day a week

Owns the technical roadmap, runs the engineering rituals, reviews the PRs that matter. From €2,080/month.

Embedded · half-time

Acts as your CTO: team, delivery, vendors, investors — and code in the loop. From €5,200/month.

Five signs you need one now

  • Your roadmap is decided by whoever shouts loudest, not by an architecture.
  • You are about to hire your first engineers and nobody can interview them.
  • Investors ask technical due-diligence questions you cannot answer.
  • An agency built the product and now nobody owns it.
  • You need to put AI in the product and you do not know what is real and what is a demo.

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