fractional cto &
technology consulting
Executive-level technology leadership by the hour or on a monthly retainer — roadmaps, architecture audits, cost optimization, SOC 2 readiness, and hiring your first engineers.
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what you get
Technology roadmaps
A sequenced technical plan tied to business goals — what to build, buy, and defer, with costs attached.
Architecture & code audits
A senior review of your systems and codebase with a prioritized, plain-English findings report your team can act on.
Expense & cost optimization
Cloud, SaaS, vendor, and agency spend audited line by line — a measured savings plan, and the renegotiations to land it. I've run this as CTO across offshore partnerships, infrastructure, and tooling.
SOC 2 & compliance readiness
I led a SOC 2 Type II certification end-to-end — policies, controls, evidence, and audit — and can walk your team through the same path.
Hiring & team building
Role definitions, technical interviews, and onboarding plans for your first engineers — or a plan to level up the team you have.
from assessment to handoff
current-state review
Interviews and system review in the first two weeks. You get a written assessment of where the risk and leverage actually are.
roadmap & priorities
A sequenced roadmap with costs and hiring implications — decisions you can defend to a board or investors.
hands-on leadership
A weekly leadership cadence: vendor calls, architecture reviews, hiring loops. I sit on your side of the table.
make myself unnecessary
The goal is a team and process that don't need me — documentation, rituals, and a full-time hire plan when you're ready.
scoped to the job
Every engagement is priced custom for the job — scoped in writing after a free consult, before any work begins.
advisory
- Ad-hoc calls & reviews
- Architecture second opinions
- No minimum commitment
fractional cto
most common- Weekly leadership cadence
- Roadmap ownership
- Hiring & vendor management
engagement
- SOC 2 readiness program
- Expense & cloud-spend audit
- Due-diligence support
- Team transformation
general notes
Everything a full-time CTO does — roadmap, architecture decisions, hiring, vendor management — at the hours a smaller company actually needs. Engagements are priced custom and scoped in writing, at a fraction of what a full-time executive hire costs.
It's a different shape of engagement. An agency is the right call when you need a full build delivered end-to-end; this is advice, leadership, and accountability — by the hour or on retainer, scoped in writing, and designed to hand off cleanly once you have a team that doesn't need me.
Yes. I led a SOC 2 Type II certification end-to-end as CTO — policies, controls, evidence collection, and the audit itself — and can run the same program for your team, sized to your stack and timeline.
Usually, yes. As CTO I've reduced spend through vendor renegotiation, offshore partnerships, and infrastructure consolidation. A cost audit reviews your cloud, SaaS, and agency contracts line by line and delivers a savings plan with numbers attached — these engagements often pay for themselves within a few months.
Advisory calls are one-off, with no minimum commitment. Fractional CTO engagements typically run three to twelve months, reviewed monthly — and every engagement is designed to hand off cleanly, not to renew forever.
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