Fractional CTO
Senior decisions without the hire
Senior technical leadership inside your team. Strategy, architecture, hiring — and someone who still writes code.
- From
- €2,500/mo
- Commitment
- Monthly
- Start
- Next week
01 — What this is
You have a product, a team and no one senior enough to say which of the three arguments in the room is right. That is the job, and it does not need a full-time salary.
In the room.
On the tools.
On your side.
Eleven years building and shipping, most of it as the person accountable for the call. You get the judgement, the architecture and the hiring bar — without a hundred-and-forty-thousand-pound commitment and a three-month search.
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02 — What the job is
The decisions nobody else
in the room can make
ArchitectureWhat to build on, what to buy, and what you will regret in eighteen months.
The roadmapWhat ships next, what gets cut, and how to tell your board why.
HiringWriting the spec, sitting the interviews, setting the bar and holding it.
Code reviewStill in the pull requests. A CTO who has stopped reading code stops being useful.
Vendors and costWhat you are paying for, what you are not using, and what the bill will be at ten times the traffic.
The awkward conversationThe rewrite that is not worth it. The hire that is not working. The date that will not hold.
Not all of it every week. The point of the arrangement is that you get the right hours on the right problem, not a seat filled five days a week.
03 — Who it's for
Three rooms we end up in
If none of these is you, say so and we'll tell you straight.
04 — How it goes
From a first call
to being in the room.
Month to month. Cancel with thirty days, no exit fee, no lock-in.
- 1
A call, not a pitch
Half an hour on what you're building and what's stuck. Free, and often the answer is that you don't need this yet.
- 2
Two weeks reading
The codebase, the infrastructure bill, the backlog and the team. You get the findings in writing whether or not we carry on.
- 3
A plan with dates on it
What to fix now, what to leave, what to hire for and in what order. Costed, so your board can read it too.
- 4
Then we're in the room
Standups, reviews, interviews and the awkward calls. One or two days a week, on your calendar, not on a retainer nobody uses.
- 5
We work ourselves out of it
The point is a team that no longer needs us. When that happens we say so rather than quietly staying on the invoice.
05 — The receipts
Who this has been done for
Three of them are public and running right now. Open any of the sites and use the product — that is the proof, not a logo wall.
Fractional CTO · ongoing
World Medical Card
Medical ID and emergency access for travellers. Midnyte leads
the technical side: architecture, the native iOS and Android apps, the web platform
behind them, and the infrastructure underneath.
worldmedicalcard.co.uk ↗
Development · live
Wavo
An AI builder that turns a plain-language description into a
working site in about thirty seconds — HTML, CSS and JavaScript you own, ready
to publish in one click.
usewavo.com ↗
Venture · on the cap table
TrueDebt
Verified debt settlement for Nordic lenders, replacing
collection calls with a structured process. Built for a stake in the company rather
than an invoice — which is the strongest thing we can say about believing in it.
truedebt.com ↗
Trusted by
Eleven years and more than three hundred projects behind these. See the case studies.
05 — The arithmetic
What the hire actually costs
Salary is about two thirds of it. Move the sliders to your own numbers — nothing here is sent anywhere.
Full-time CTO — annual salary
€110,000
Fractional CTO — what we own
Advisory
Fractional CTO — monthly retainer
€2,500/mo
Full-time CTO, annual
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Fractional CTO, annual
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You save
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Illustrative estimate based on your own numbers — not a binding offer. Advisory is €2,500 a month, Embedded €5,000, and the bespoke tier is quoted on the scope — shown here at €10,000. A flat fee whichever it is: no overage, no timesheets, thirty days’ notice.
06 — The rate
Priced to the engagement
Priced on what we are accountable for rather than on days in a diary — counting days turns a technical lead into a contractor with a timesheet, and that is the opposite of what this is. Two of these are fixed, the third is quoted on its scope. Some weeks you will use every hour, some weeks none. The invoice is the same.
- Architecture, and what you’ll regret in eighteen months
- A standing call each week, and reachable in between
- Code review on whatever you send us
- Hands on the code for the parts that need us
- Everything in Advisory, and it is ours to be wrong about
- The roadmap, costed, and accountable for the dates on it
- Hiring — the spec, the panel, the bar, and running it
- The board and investor questions, answered properly
- In the standups, the pull requests and the incidents
- Everything in Embedded, across more of the week
- The engineers, managed — not just hired
- In the room for the board, the raise and the diligence
- Vendors, budgets and the infrastructure bill
- Quoted on the scope; typically from €10,000 a month
07 — Get started
Tell us what you need
Two sentences is plenty. Two more questions and you’re done — without leaving this page. We come back within one business day, and if this isn’t the right arrangement for you we’ll say so.
Free consultation · no commitment · answer within one business day.