Startups
We act as your CTO from idea to MVP and help you make the first technical choices without locking yourself in.
CTO as a Service
Senior technical leadership, without hiring a full-time CTO.
We take on the CTO role in your company for as long as you need it: from the first technical choices of a startup to interim leadership in an established SME. You get strategy, structure and decisions you can explain to your board, your investors and your team.
- Best for
- Founders without a technical co-founder and SMEs between CTOs
- Engagement
- Fractional, interim or on-call advisory
- Starts with
- A free sparring session about your plans
What you get.
Concrete results you can hold us to, not vague advice. Every engagement is shaped around your situation, but these are the building blocks.
Technology strategy
A clear direction for your product and IT that matches your business goals and budget.
Roadmap you can act on
Priorities, milestones and trade-offs written down, so everyone knows what comes next.
Architecture decisions
Build or buy, which stack, which vendor. Decisions backed by arguments, not hype.
Team building and hiring
Job profiles, technical interviews and onboarding for your first developers.
Security and compliance
A sensible baseline for data protection, access and GDPR from day one.
Investor and board support
Technical due diligence, pitch support and reporting your stakeholders understand.
Who it's for.
The same service looks different depending on where your company stands. This is how CTO as a Service helps at each stage.
Scale-ups
We bring structure as the team grows: processes, code quality and an architecture that holds up under growth.
SMEs
Interim CTO while you look for a permanent one, or an advisor when a major IT decision is on the table.
How it works.
A clear route from the first conversation to results, with a decision point at every step. You never commit to more than the next step.
- 1
Sparring session
A free conversation about your plans, your team and the technical questions that keep you up at night.
- 2
Technical audit
We look at what is already there: code, infrastructure, tools, contracts and the people behind them.
- 3
Roadmap and priorities
You get a written plan with priorities, budget estimates and the decisions that need to be made first.
- 4
Hands-on leadership
We lead the technical side, steer developers and partners, and report to you in plain language.
- 5
Handover
When the time is right, we help you hire your own CTO and hand over everything we built and learned.
Their expertise helped us set up a strong, future-proof, and scalable architecture that enabled our growth.
Questions we often get.
Something else on your mind? Ask it during the sparring session, or send us a message.
How much time does a CTO as a Service spend with us?
That depends on your stage. Most companies start with one or two days per week. During a launch or a reorganization it can be more, and in a calmer phase an on-call advisory role is often enough.
Do you also write code?
Yes, when it helps. Our CTOs are hands-on engineers. In most engagements we combine leadership with reviews, prototypes or critical pieces of development.
Can you help us hire a permanent CTO?
Definitely. We write the job profile, take part in technical interviews and make sure the handover is complete, so your new CTO can start with a clean slate.
Is this only for startups?
No. We also work as interim CTO for SMEs, and as a strategic advisor when a company faces a large IT decision such as a new ERP, a platform rebuild or a cloud migration.
Other services.
Most clients combine two or more. They're designed to work together.
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MVPs, platforms, APIs and testing
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Let's see if CTO as a Service fits you.
Book a free sparring session. We look at your plans together and tell you honestly what it takes to realize them on time and within budget.