FRACTIONAL STRATEGY LEADERSHIP

Executive-level technical leadership on your timeline — not a full-time hire.

Strategic oversight, board-ready storytelling, and hard calls made with context. Monthly engagement, flexible commitment.

Monthly
Commitment
$0–30K/mo
Investment
Leadership
Your Team
Operating Plan
You'll Receive

WHAT THIS ENGAGEMENT IS

We embed a senior technical leader into your organization.

We embed a senior technical leader into your organization on a fractional basis. This person joins your leadership team, attends your key meetings, makes architecture and vendor decisions, mentors your engineering team, and translates technical reality into language your board and investors understand.

It's the CTO or VP Eng role — the strategic half, not the hands-on-keyboard half — without the full-time salary, equity, and 6-month search process.

How We Work

How It Works

01

Month 1: Onboarding & Assessment

3–4 days/week

The first month is heavier. We learn your business, your technology, your team, and your priorities. This includes a full technical landscape review, 1:1s with key team members, and evaluation of processes and vendor relationships. By end of Month 1, you have a 90-Day Operating Plan.

Full access to team and systems
Candor about what's working and what isn't
02

Ongoing: Steady-State Leadership

1–2 days/week

Board/investor prep, architecture decisions, team leadership through 1:1s, roadmap stewardship keeping technical execution aligned with business priorities, and stakeholder translation across engineering, product, finance, and leadership.

Weekly sync (30–60 min)
Access to relevant meetings
03

Quarterly: Operating Plan Reset

Every 90 days

Every quarter, we reset the operating plan. What got done, what shifted, what's next. This keeps the engagement accountable and gives you a natural checkpoint to evaluate scope and intensity.

90-minute quarterly review with leadership

What You Walk Away With

01
PLAN

90-Day Operating Plan

A prioritized plan tied to business outcomes with clear checkpoints, owners, and success metrics. Delivered Month 1, refreshed quarterly. You'll use it for leadership meetings, board updates, and engineering sprint planning.

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02
STRATEGY

Strategic Prioritization

A ranked view of your technical initiatives against business value, effort, and risk. Updated continuously as new information comes in. You'll use it for deciding what to build next, what to defer, and what to kill.

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03
NARRATIVE

Investor/Board Narrative

Crisp, metrics-backed updates that translate engineering work into business progress. Written for the audience reading them. You'll use it for board meetings, investor updates, and fundraising materials.

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04
ANALYSIS

Build vs. Buy Analysis

Pragmatic evaluations of whether to build internally, buy a tool, or partner — with cost, timeline, and risk for each option. You'll use it for vendor decisions, budget allocation, and reducing dependency risk.

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WRONG FIT

This might not be for you if...

You need someone writing code daily — this is a strategic role. You have a strong CTO and just need a second opinion on a specific decision. You're pre-product and need to figure out what to build.

Better Starting Points

For a specific decision, a Technical Assessment might be all you need. If you're pre-product, a UI/UX Design Sprint is the better starting point.

RIGHT FIT

This is exactly right if...

You need executive-level technical guidance but a full-time CTO hire isn't the right move yet. Your board is asking technical questions you can't answer with confidence. You're making consequential build/buy/partner decisions.

What Happens Next

We schedule an onboarding kickoff and have your 90-Day Operating Plan within the first 30 days.

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What Our Partners Say

“Having a fractional CTO who understood both the technology and the boardroom dynamics was exactly what we needed during our growth phase. The 90-day operating plan became our north star.”

CEO
Series A Startup
LOGISTICS

Common Questions

01How much time does this take from my existing team?

After the first month, this integrates into your existing rhythms. Weekly leadership sync and periodic 1:1s.

The engagement is designed to reduce burden on your team, not add to it. After the intensive first month, expect a weekly sync (30–60 min) and periodic 1:1s with senior engineers.

02What's the minimum commitment?

We recommend 3 months initially. After that, it's month-to-month. Most engagements last 6–12 months.

Three months gets you through onboarding and delivers meaningful results. After that, it's month-to-month with no long-term obligation. Most engagements naturally last 6–12 months as the value compounds.

03Can this person attend our board meetings?

Yes. That's often the highest-leverage use of this engagement.

We come prepared with the narrative and data your board needs. Many clients find that board prep and attendance is one of the most valuable aspects of the engagement — translating technical progress into metrics investors care about.

04What happens when we're ready to hire a full-time CTO?

We help you define the role, evaluate candidates, and ensure a clean handoff.

A successful transition is part of the engagement — not the end of a contract. We help define what you actually need in a full-time leader, participate in candidate evaluation, and ensure institutional knowledge transfers cleanly.

WHAT'S NEXT

Where This Leads

Need to build the roadmap?

Technical Roadmap Strategy

Fractional leadership paired with a Technical Roadmap Strategy in the first 60 days.

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Ready to start building?

Development + Delivery

Fractional leadership provides ongoing oversight while our Development + Delivery team executes.

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The strategic half of a CTO — without the six-month search.

We'll schedule an onboarding kickoff and have your 90-Day Operating Plan within the first 30 days.

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