CTO as a Service

Who it’s for

• Non-technical founders who are about to hire their first developer and don’t want to get it wrong.
• Companies with a small technical team that are growing and need someone to bring order to architecture, processes and vendors.
• Investors who need technical due diligence before closing a round.
• Stuck projects that have been going nowhere for months and nobody quite knows why.

What we cover

• Strategy and technical architecture — what to build, in what order, with what stack.
• Technical hiring — interviews, evaluations, senior/junior calls, freelance vs. employee.
• Vendor selection — when to insource, when to outsource, how not to end up locked into an agency.
• Code review and technical debt — what’s under the hood and how much it costs to fix.
• Technical due diligence — for investors or acquirers.
• Operational support — weekly meetings, day-to-day decisions, sparring partner for the founder.

How to engage

Three formats, no rates on the website (the first call is free and the proposal comes from there):

1. Point-in-time advisory — a review, a decision, a report. Days, not months.
2. Ongoing engagement — one or two days a week, for as long as it’s useful.
3. Closed-scope project — a specific objective (launch, migration, building a team) in 3–6 months.