Fractional CTO
You need a technical co-founder — someone who makes architecture decisions, evaluates your stack, hires the right people, and ships alongside the team. Not a consultant. Not a contractor. A CTO who builds with AI agents, self-maintaining codebases, and AI-native development workflows — at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Project Examples
AgentOS - AI Agent Fleet Infrastructure
AI AgentsA 4-layer platform for deploying and operating OpenClaw, Hermes, and custom AI agents at scale - agent-agnostic, hosting-agnostic, and designed for fleet management.
→ Agent fleet infrastructure - deploy to production in minutes
AI-Native Algorithm Pipeline
AI AgentsMade a critical algorithm self-maintaining with AI, then stayed to build the full production pipeline. Now embedded inside the engineering team.
→ From scoped AI project to embedded engineering team
AI Knowledge Platform
MVP DevelopmentA full AI knowledge platform with RAG, lead collection, scheduled web crawling, audio transcription, and an embeddable widget - now serving 10+ enterprise clients.
→ 10+ enterprise clients on the platform
Chess Education Platform
Fractional CTOA gamified chess education platform with AI coaching, interactive minigames, achievement systems, and audio-narrated lessons - built over two years for chess grandmasters.
→ Gamified experiential learning platform, launching soon
AI Tarot Reading Game
MVP DevelopmentAn AI tarot reading experience where multiple reader characters draw cards one by one, control the interface in real time through tool calls, and remember users across sessions.
→ AI agent with tool-calling UI control
Multi-Chain Crypto Launchpad
Fractional CTORevived a mothballed crypto launchpad, deployed it across multiple blockchain networks, extended with staking, VIP tiers, and ongoing chain onboarding.
→ IDO platform deployed across multiple blockchain networks
Trading Infrastructure Overhaul
SaaS DevelopmentOverhauled CEX market-making infrastructure to support more markets and strategies. Deployed capital rose by 1000%.
→ 1000% increase in deployed capital
Promptchainer - AI Workflow Automation
SaaS DevelopmentA visual AI workflow builder - drag-and-drop prompt chaining with a custom graph execution engine, async worker pool, and multi-tenant RAG. Reached $2k MRR.
→ $2k MRR - early to AI workflow automation
A CTO, not a consultant
Technical Strategy
Stack decisions, architecture reviews, build-vs-buy analysis. The decisions that cost you months if you get them wrong.
AI at the Core
We don’t bolt AI onto your roadmap. We bring AI-native development practices, agent pipelines, and automation patterns from real production systems we’ve built.
Hands-On Building
We’re not advisory-only. When the hard problem needs solving, we write the code. When the team needs unblocking, we ship the feature.
Team Leadership
Hire the right developers, set engineering standards, run the process. We’ve built and led teams from 1 to 10.
Stakeholder Translation
Talk to your investors, your board, your clients about what’s happening technically — in language they understand, with timelines they can trust.
Vendor & Partner Evaluation
Evaluate agencies, freelancers, tools, and platforms. Stop wasting money on the wrong bets.
How It Works
Sprint — Weeks 1–3
A fixed-price Architecture & Production-Readiness Sprint. We audit your codebase, stack, and team, and deliver a technical assessment, a prioritized roadmap, and a hiring plan. You see exactly how we work before committing to more.
Lead & Build — Ongoing
Weekly syncs, async communication, architecture oversight, code reviews, hiring support, AI integration. We’re in your Slack, your GitHub, your standups — as much or as little as you need.
Crunch — As Needed
Intensive periods around fundraises, launches, and audits. We scale up for the push, then back down — without renegotiating the relationship.
Handoff — When You’re Ready
When it’s time for a full-time CTO, we help you hire them and run a structured 4–8 week handoff: documented architecture, healthy processes, a team that ships. You outgrowing us is the plan.
Typical engagement: 1–2 days per week, $8–15k/month retainer. Starts with the fixed-price Sprint. Scales up or down as your needs change.
Who This Is For
Non-technical founders
You have the vision and the business sense. You need someone who can turn that into technical decisions, hire the right team, and keep the product on track.
Startups between rounds
You’ve raised seed or Series A. You need a CTO-level person to set technical direction before you’re ready for a full-time hire.
Companies without senior technical leadership
Your developers are good, but nobody is setting architecture, evaluating AI opportunities, or making the big calls. You need the layer above.
Outcomes
- Technical strategy aligned with business goals
- AI integrated where it creates real leverage — not as a checkbox
- Engineering team that ships faster and makes fewer costly mistakes
- A technical leader investors and partners take seriously
- No full-time salary, no equity, no long-term commitment
Common Questions
Why not hire a full-time CTO?
At pre-seed through Series A, a full-time CTO costs $300k+ plus meaningful equity — for a company that needs 1–2 days of senior leadership a week. We give you the leadership now and help you hire the full-timer when the team actually needs one.
How is this different from a dev agency?
An agency executes tickets you write. We sit on your side of the table: we own the architecture, hire and manage the developers, and are accountable for outcomes — including the work we don’t do ourselves.
We were looking for a CTO co-founder.
Co-founder searches take 6–12 months and cost 10–30% equity — for someone you barely know. You get co-founder-level ownership from day one, keep your cap table clean, and if it’s not working, there’s no messy breakup.
What happens when we outgrow you?
That’s the plan. When you’re ready for a full-time CTO, we help you hire them and run a structured 4–8 week handoff — documented architecture, healthy processes, a team that ships. We stay available as advisors after.
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