Part-Time
20 hrs/week
4 of 6 included
- Flexible hours: included
- Direct team integration: included
- Multiple developers: not included
- You manage daily tasks: included
- Dedicated tech lead: not included
- Cost-effective scaling: included
Overview
What is a VirtualCTO Service?
A Virtual CTO (Chief Technology Officer) provides strategic technical leadership without the full-time commitment or cost of a permanent executive. Our experienced CTOs help you define technology strategy, make architectural decisions, build and scale engineering teams, evaluate tech vendors, and align technology initiatives with business goals. Perfect for startups and growing companies that need senior technical guidance.
Service Models
Engagementmodels
Choose the engagement model that best fits your project needs and budget
Full-Time
40 hrs/week
4 of 6 included
- Flexible hours: included
- Direct team integration: included
- Multiple developers: not included
- You manage daily tasks: included
- Dedicated tech lead: not included
- Cost-effective scaling: included
- Most complete
Extended Team
Multiple roles
6 of 6 included
- Flexible hours: included
- Direct team integration: included
- Multiple developers: included
- You manage daily tasks: included
- Dedicated tech lead: included
- Cost-effective scaling: included
Scoped in writing
What we are building, what we are deliberately not building, and how we will know it works — agreed before the first commit rather than discovered in the third month.
Built to be handed over
Code, documentation and the reasoning behind decisions are written for whoever inherits them. Handover is designed in from the start, not assembled at the end.
Production from day one
Tests, CI and observability are part of the first sprint. Nothing ships that cannot be deployed, monitored and rolled back.
You own all of it
Source, infrastructure and accounts are yours throughout. No proprietary layer, no dependency on us to keep it running.
Direct access
You talk to the people writing the code. Questions get answered by whoever made the decision, not relayed through an account layer.
Scope that can change
Priorities move. The engagement is structured so that is a conversation about sequence, not a change order.
Onboarding
How a Virtual CTOEngagement Runs
From a technical assessment to a function a permanent hire can inherit.
Technical assessment
We review the codebase, architecture, infrastructure and team, and write down what we find - including what is working.
Risk and priority
We rank the technical risks by what they would cost and how hard they are to reverse, and agree what gets attention first.
Set direction
We make and record the expensive-to-reverse decisions: architecture, build versus buy, platform, security posture.
Build the team
We define roles and levels, run technical assessment for hires, and set the engineering practices they join.
Operating cadence
We establish planning, review and incident practice, plus the reporting your board and investors need.
Hand over
We document the decisions and transition to your permanent CTO. The engagement is designed to end.
Roles
Who Workson It
The people a project like this usually needs, and what each of them owns.
Virtual CTO
Owns technical direction and the decisions that are expensive to reverse.
Solutions architect
Designs the systems behind the direction that has been set.
Security engineer
Sets the security posture and reviews it against your obligations.
Engineering manager
Builds the hiring plan, levels and engineering practice.
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