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CTO Advisory Retainer

$3K–$5K/moMonthly

Ongoing fractional CTO partnership — strategy, architecture, team leadership, and technical decision-making. I act as your technical co-founder without the equity ask. Weekly alignment, async execution, fixed-price retainer. Ideal for funded startups that need senior technical leadership but aren't ready for a full-time CTO.

🎯 Who this is for

Funded startups ($500K–$5M raised) who need senior technical leadership but can't justify a full-time CTO hire. Also fits established businesses undergoing digital transformation who need architectural guidance.

💡 Example use cases

  • You have a dev team of 3–8 engineers and need someone to set technical direction, review architecture, and maintain code quality without becoming a blocker
  • You're raising your Series A and need a CTO-level technical roadmap, infrastructure budget, and team scaling plan for the next 12 months
  • Your current tech debt is slowing down feature delivery — you need an experienced architect to triage what to fix now versus what can wait

What's included

  • Weekly 60-minute strategy call
  • Architecture review and technical decisions
  • Team structure and hiring guidance
  • Infrastructure cost optimization
  • Code review and quality standards
  • Security and compliance oversight
  • Emergency triage for production incidents
  • Monthly technical roadmap update

Tech Stack

Any stackArchitectureStrategyTeam leadershipCost optimization