We embed as your CTO for one or two days a week. Strategy, architecture, hiring, AI roadmap, vendor decisions — the judgment a full-time hire would bring, without the headcount.
Founders shipping their first product. Series A teams scaling past their first ten engineers. Operators inheriting tech debt. Boards needing technical due diligence they can trust.
A two-week diagnostic. We map the system, the team, the risks, and the roadmap. You get a written assessment whether or not we keep working together.
A great CTO is part architect, part recruiter, part diplomat, and part skeptic. They translate between engineers and the board. They know what to build and — more importantly — what not to.
Most growing companies don't need a full-time CTO. They need someone who has done it before, knows the patterns, and can make the right call in the room — about the AI vendor, the cloud bill, the senior hire, the security audit.
We work with three to five clients at a time. Each one gets the same standard of judgment we'd bring as a full-time executive: hands-on enough to read the code, strategic enough to talk to investors, opinionated enough to be useful.
This is not advisory. This is operating partnership.
Frontier model selection, prompt engineering, fine-tuning vs. RAG trade-offs, agentic workflows, and rigorous evaluation. Knowing where the technology is real and where it's still marketing.
Embeddings, vector databases, hybrid search, and chunking strategy applied to SharePoint, OneDrive, and internal corpora. Permissions-aware retrieval that actually respects ACLs.
Lakehouse architectures, transformation pipelines, semantic layers, and the difference between a dashboard and a decision-making system.
Multi-cloud reality, serverless where it earns its keep, edge compute for latency-sensitive workloads, and a ruthless eye on the monthly bill.
Internal developer platforms, golden paths, and the unsexy infrastructure that makes a 50-engineer team ship like a 5-engineer team.
OpenTelemetry-native instrumentation, SLOs that match the business, and incident response that actually learns from itself.
Zero-trust networking, secrets management, SBOMs, supply-chain security, and a posture that survives the first enterprise security questionnaire.
Server components, edge rendering, design systems, and the boring discipline of accessibility and performance budgets.
Trunk-based development, continuous deployment, experimentation infrastructure, and a sane approach to feature flags and progressive delivery.
If you're hiring fractional or full-time, these are the qualities that separate a useful CTO from a glorified senior engineer. Read it as our self-assessment, too.
Knows what a 5-person team needs versus a 50-person one. Won't over-engineer day one or under-architect day one hundred.
Can tell you when an LLM is the right tool — and when a regex, a search index, or a phone call would do.
Not on commission. Will recommend Snowflake or Postgres, AWS or Cloudflare, build or buy — based on your situation, not their last gig.
Hands-on enough to review a PR and spot the architectural mistake. Strategic enough to walk a Series B investor through your moat.
Treats SOC 2 and zero-trust as table stakes, not a panic-driven Q4 sprint. Knows what to delegate, what to automate, and what to refuse.
Cloud and inference bills can quietly eat your margin. A modern CTO measures cost-per-request, not just latency.
Decisions in a doc, not in someone's head. ADRs, runbooks, post-mortems. The tax that compounds into clarity.
A 30-minute call. Tell us what you're trying to ship, what's in the way, and where the pressure is coming from. We'll tell you whether we can help — and if not, who can.