Fractional CTO Services
Benefits
Engaging a fractional CTO offers numerous advantages, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses without the budget or demand for a full-time CTO.
By partnering with a fractional CTO, you gain access to extensive technical expertise and industry insight without bearing the costs of a full-time executive. This approach enables your business to remain nimble and competitive, while also benefiting from an external viewpoint to pinpoint new opportunities and optimize processes.
Flexible engagements
We specialize in supporting startups and growing SMEs by providing tailored technical guidance. With our flexible “CTO as a Service” models, we adapt to your unique needs. Whether you’re looking for unbiased advice on your solution, filling a technological leadership gap, or in need of continuous support from a trusted virtual CTO, we are committed to adapting and delivering exactly what you need, when you need it.
CTO Consulting
Short term engagements to help you make critical decisions for your business such as helping you select your technology stack, building your team, providing an unbiased outside opinion on a complex problem, refactoring existing systems and resolving burning issues around security or other critical issues.
Interim CTO
These engagements are usually for a few months while we help your organization bridge the gap until a new CTO is in place, or you engage us to help set in motion your plans before exiting to let others follow through with the execution.
Long-term CTO
For small to medium businesses, who cannot afford nor justify the cost of a full time CTO, we offer long-term CTO services to help fill all of your most critical needs in your company without needing to pay for a permanent full time CTO position.
Our Company’s Expertise
We help our clients think through important topics including:
- Identifying key business objectives
- Aligning technology to meet and achieve your business goals
- Identify key technical and process considerations that need to be in place to help support your business
- Asking important questions related to your company’s adaptation to future technological developments (for example, identifying and applying an appropriate AI strategy)
- Building or extending your internal technical teams with the right culture, processes and tools to succeed
- Improving your internal processes for handling an efficient and effective working environment
Businesses we serve
- Subscription based software systems
- E-Commerce platforms
- Learning management systems [LMS]
- Professional services with technological complexity
Together we focus on
- Identifying business objectives
- Aligning technology with goals
- Roadmap creation
- Research and development
- Digital transformation initiatives
Specialization areas
- Software development and integration
- AI and ML (machine learning)
- Intelligent data analysis and capture technologies
- Custom software solutions
- Application integration and optimization
- Quality assurance processes and test methodologies
- Technology strategy development
- Cloud infrastructure management
- Server network and security optimization
- Cloud services and data storage
- Software procurement
- Custom API integration solutions
Typical CTO Costs
In the United States, CTOs are paid well, making it challenging for small to medium-sized businesses to hire and maintain such an individual.
Nonetheless, the importance of a technology leader for a growing business, cannot be overstated.
For those unable to afford a full-time CTO, the ideal alternative is to engage a part-time or “fractional” CTO. At less than half the base annual cost, a fractional CTO is an efficient and cost-effective solution for addressing your business’s technology needs.
Save Precious Time in Your CTO Search
Download our PDF guide which offers you a comprehensive guide on the pivotal qualities essential for a CTO. It delves into areas like technical knowledge, strategic planning, leadership, problem-solving, and communication.
Additionally, this PDF provides a detailed CTO interview guide and resources for further understanding, making it an invaluable resource for businesses aiming to hire a CTO.
Comprehensive CTO Support
Our comprehensive fractional CTO and accompanying tech implementation support services start at 40 hours a month. This package includes:
| Strategy meeting | Monthly |
| Reporting | Monthly |
| Sprint updates | Weekly |
| Sprint reviews | Bi-weekly |
| Leadership and execution | Up to 40 hours monthly |
This tailored package is perfect for clients seeking consistent strategic guidance to propel their business objectives forward.
It encompasses the essential time required for making continuous improvements to your business while providing a versatile team that can swiftly address the ever-evolving priorities of your roadmap.
Our Team
We have decades of experience across a wide array of business types and industries. Here are some of our CTOs you may have the pleasure of working with. Please contact us to schedule a conversation.
Thomas Lowry
CTO, Software & Solution Architect
Daniel Valencia
CTO, AI & Machine Learning Specialist
Carlos Kampff
CTO & Marketing Tech Specialist
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Augment our CTO with an entire team
When you hire us as a CTO for your organization,
you can also add a full supporting team to the engagement.
Standalone CTO
Working closely with your upper management, interfacing with your team and helping to ensure the vision of you and your company is achieved by addressing its technological needs.
Team-backed CTO
Our CTO works with you to develop key initiatives and then our team helps handle the planning and execution of those activities.
Standalone CTO
Working closely with your upper management, interfacing with your team and helping to ensure the vision of you and your company is achieved by addressing its technological needs.
Team-backed CTO
Our CTO works with you to develop key initiatives and then our team helps handle the planning and execution of those activities.
Our process
Here is what you can expect when you bring us onboard as your fractional CTO:
- Initial consultation and assessment: We meet to make sure we get the full picture of your goals in relation to this position. What are you looking to accomplish? How will we measure success? Are you looking for a temporary or permanent solution?
- Customized service proposal: We review your needs and develop a customized package to fit your objectives and achieve your technology goals.
- Onboarding and service delivery: Your assigned CTO will get to know your team, systems, and objectives intimately.
- Ongoing support and collaboration: Together we review current initiatives and roadmap planning. We will also regularly celebrate successes, report risks, and check status for all parallel and upcoming roadmap endeavors.
- Sprint planning and reporting: In addition to our monthly meeting, we plan out sprints and demos. These are the meetings where we show the completed work we planned in our roadmap sessions. In these meetings we will show what was accomplished and review what should be done next. We usually recommend these meetings happen every two weeks.
- Performance Reviews: We check in at least once every three months to ensure we are meeting expectations, make adjustments to the support team, and review other areas of your business that could benefit from insights, improvements, or positive changes.
- Initial consultation and assessment: We meet to make sure we get the full picture of your goals in relation to this position. What are you looking to accomplish? How will we measure success? Are you looking for a temporary or permanent solution?
- Customized service proposal: We review your needs and develop a customized package to fit your objectives and achieve your technology goals.
- Onboarding and service delivery: Your assigned CTO will get to know your team, systems, and objectives intimately.
- Ongoing support and collaboration: Together we review current initiatives and roadmap planning. We will also regularly celebrate successes, report risks, and check status for all parallel and upcoming roadmap endeavors.
- Sprint planning and reporting: In addition to our monthly meeting, we plan out sprints and demos. These are the meetings where we show the completed work we planned in our roadmap sessions. In these meetings we will show what was accomplished and review what should be done next. We usually recommend these meetings happen every two weeks.
- Performance Reviews: We check in at least once every three months to ensure we are meeting expectations, make adjustments to the support team, and review other areas of your business that could benefit from insights, improvements, or positive changes.
Get The Tech Leadership You Need
Take the next step.each out to us. Tell us about what tech leadership you need and see if we are the right fit for your organization. If we are not the best choice for you, we will let you know and refer you to someone who is.
