Engagement 03
Tech lead and fractional CTO
Some teams already have engineers and need someone to run them: we place a tech lead inside your team. Others need someone to own the decisions: a fractional CTO. Both come part-time or full-time, on a monthly retainer or by the hour.
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Tech lead, in your team
Joins your team and leads your firmware or software engineers week to week, inside the direction you or your CTO set. Your repo, your tools, your sprint cadence.
- Code review and merge standards
- Sprint planning and the weekly update
- Architecture calls within the agreed direction
- The interview loop for your next hires
For: Founders with a technical cofounder, or engineers with no one steering them. Need more hands too? Engineers can join alongside.
Sets the direction
Fractional CTO
Owns your technical direction and answers for it in front of your board.
- Architecture and build-or-buy decisions
- A technical roadmap with risks named upfront
- Hiring plan and your first technical hires
- Technical due diligence for your next raise
- Oversight of every vendor, including us
For: Non-technical founders, from pre-seed to Series A.
Other engagements
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Discovery Sprint
A clickable prototype within 48 hours, then the architecture, the stack decision and a build estimate you can take to your board.
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Build
Your tech lead plus the engineers your stack needs, in two-week sprints with a weekly update.
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Support after launch
Monitoring, security and dependency updates, bug triage and fast response when something breaks.
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