Technical leadership that scales with your startup
Senior CTO expertise without full-time overhead. Hands-on engineering leadership - architecture, code reviews, hiring, team building - from day one.
Advisor CTO
$3,600per month
~6 hours per week of dedicated time
For early-stage startups with an MVP or an idea that need oversight and support without full-time involvement.
How we work:
- Bi-weekly strategy session with founders (90 min)
- Technical stack and architecture review - are you building on the right foundation?
- Code review of critical decisions and risky PRs
- Candidate screening: resume review, interview structure, hire/no-hire recommendations
- Infrastructure and tooling spend review - are you overpaying for cloud and third-party services?
- Async access via Slack (48-hour response time)
What you walk away with:
- Technical assessment report - honest evaluation of your codebase, infrastructure, and risks
- Technology roadmap - prioritized recommendations for the next 6 months
- Hiring scorecard - what to look for in your first 3-5 engineers
Outcome
Confidence that your technical decisions are sound and a clear plan to build on - without costly mistakes.
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Growth CTO
Most popular$5,800per month
~10 hours per week of dedicated time
For Post-Seed to Series A startups actively building product and scaling their team from 3 to 10 engineers.
How we work:
- Weekly sync with founders - priorities, blockers, technical strategy
- Code review and architecture ownership - I'm in your codebase, not just on calls
- Hands-on hiring: job descriptions, sourcing strategy, technical interviews, offer calibration
- Technical debt triage - identifying what slows the team down and what can wait
- CI/CD and developer productivity review - testing strategy, deployment pipeline, dev environment
- Engineering delivery oversight - sprint reviews, velocity tracking, quality gates
- Production incident support - emergency availability during critical outages
- Async access via Slack (24-hour response time)
What you walk away with:
- 90-day technical roadmap, updated quarterly
- Architecture Decision Records - documented rationale for every major technical choice
- Hiring playbook - leveling criteria, interview process, scorecards, onboarding checklist
- Monthly strategic memo - progress, risks, recommendations
- Technical debt register - prioritized list with estimated impact and effort
- Team OKRs - quarterly goals tied to business outcomes
Outcome
A solid technical foundation and team ready for rapid product growth without chaos.
3-month minimum commitment
Scale CTO
$11,000per month
~20 hours per week of dedicated time
For Series A+ startups with 15-20+ engineers preparing for the next funding round.
How we work:
- Everything from Growth CTO package
- Daily involvement in engineering operations - standups, planning, escalations
- Executive team participation - board prep, investor meetings, due diligence support
- Engineering management development - coaching team leads into engineering managers
- Organizational design - team topology, processes, rituals, communication structures
- Vendor strategy - cloud cost optimization, service negotiations, contractor management
- Technical debt strategy - refactoring roadmap balanced against product delivery
What you walk away with:
- Engineering handbook - culture, standards, processes, expectations
- Leveling and compensation framework - career ladders and salary bands
- Engineering metrics dashboard - DORA metrics, velocity trends, code quality
- Incident management playbook - on-call rotation, severity definitions, postmortem process
- Technical due diligence package - investor-ready architecture and security documentation
- Security and compliance assessment - SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA readiness evaluation
- Engineering headcount plan and infrastructure budget forecast
Outcome
A mature engineering organization ready for due diligence and the next funding round.
3-month minimum commitment
Executive CTO
Custom pricing
Full executive commitment, 3-5 days per week
For companies that need a fully embedded CTO - same strategic ownership as a full-time hire, without the permanent headcount.
Typical scenarios:
- Acting CTO during permanent CTO search
- Technical integration for M&A and due diligence
- Application architecture transformation (monolith → microservices, cloud migration)
- Multi-region compliance (GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA)
- Scaling engineering team from 20 to 100+ people
- Crisis management (failed projects, team conflicts, critical technical debt)
Not sure which package is right?
Start with a free 30-minute consultation. We'll discuss your goals, challenges, and determine the optimal engagement format.
All packages can be customized. Ad-hoc consulting and overflow hours available at $185/hour.