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Growing but not ready to hire a full-time CTO for $200k+ per year?
Fractional CTO is the perfect solution for your budget and stage.
Contract Length:
Advisor CTO
$3,600per month
6 hours per week, 24 hours per month
For early-stage startups with an MVP or an idea that need oversight and support without full-time involvement.
- 2 strategic sessions per month (90 minutes each)
- Technical stack and architecture audit
- Slack support (48-hour response time)
- Hiring support: candidate reviews and recommendations
What's included:
- 6-month technical roadmap
- Architecture guidelines document
Outcome:A clear plan and recommendations for technology and team development without the overhead of a full-time CTO.
Contract term:1 month
Growth CTO
Most popular$6,000per month
10 hours per week, 40 hours per month
Post-Seed to Series A startups actively building product and team (3 to 10 engineers).
- Weekly call with founders (1 hour)
- Bi-weekly sprint reviews with the team
- Active hiring involvement: sourcing, interviews, offers, onboarding
- Product architecture and technical roadmap ownership
- Emergency availability for critical situations
- Slack support (24-hour response time)
What's included:
- Quarterly OKRs for the technical team
- Hiring playbook for first 5-10 engineers
- Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
Outcome:A solid technical foundation and team ready for rapid growth and product scaling without chaos.
Contract term:from 3 months
Scale CTO
$12,000per month
≈3 days per week, 80 hours per month
Series A+ startups with 15-20+ engineers preparing for the next funding round.
- Everything from Growth CTO package
- Participation in executive meetings and investor discussions
- Building engineering management team (leads, engineering managers)
- Due diligence support for fundraising
- Organizational design: team structure, processes, rituals
- Technical debt strategy and refactoring roadmap
- Vendor and partner negotiations (AWS, third-party services, contractors)
What's included:
- Engineering handbook and team culture code
- Leveling and compensation framework
- Engineering metrics dashboards (DORA, velocity, code quality, etc.)
- Incident management and on-call rotation
Outcome:A mature engineering organization with clear processes, metrics, and a culture of product ownership.
Contract term:from 6 months
Executive CTO
Custom pricing
Full engagement, 25-40 hours per week
Companies seeking a full-scale CTO on an outsourced basis.
Scope defined individually. Typical scenarios:
- Acting CTO role during permanent CTO search
- Technical integration for M&A and due diligence
- Application architecture transformation (monolith → microservices, cloud migration, etc.)
- 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 collaboration format.
All packages can be customized for your business needs. Hourly rate for custom projects is $150/hour.