Fractional CTOs

Boards and founders turning AI from pilots into shipped systems (fractional CTO / CAIO).

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Startups needing fractional CTO help on roadmap, velocity, hiring/org design, investor tech narrative, and risk — from MVP toward scale

Early-stage startups needing technical leadership (8x CTO).

Non-technical founders / seed-stage startups needing architecture, hiring, and roadmap.

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Startups and scaleups wanting a 6–18 month fractional CTO with a defined exit.

Non-technical and scaling founders needing architecture + fractional CTO retainer ($3–5k/mo published).fee published

Organizations that need senior technology architecture and CTO/CIO advisory without a full-time executive hire.

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Startups from PMF through scale needing a real CTO/VP Eng, not a rented developer.

Leadership teams needing product/engineering transition leadership — assessment, retainer, handover

Startups and scaleups facing a technical leadership gap, including sudden CTO departures, fractional and interim CTO coverage, engineering audits, and technical due diligence preparation.

Startups needing technical leadership / architecture / team guidance without full-time CTO salary

SaaS startups needing architecture, hiring, and AI decisions without a full-time CTO.

Established companies that need fractional CTO leadership to modernize the stack, replatform legacy systems, or launch a first product version — Chicago-based, working remotely nationwide

Mid-market leadership teams and startups that need a fractional CTO to judge technology and AI decisions before they get expensive — and to diagnose the ones that already have

Healthcare, fintech, and SaaS startups pre-seed through Series B.

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Fractional CTO services for startups and non-technical founders.

Healthcare AI founders needing compliance, architecture, and enterprise scrutiny.

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Owners and operators needing calm senior technical judgment before hire, vendor decision, rebuild, or compliance push

Companies whose engineering has outgrown ad-hoc leadership — part-time CTO for architecture, delivery operating model, incidents, and cloud cost without a full-time exec hire

SaaS startups and Springfield-area businesses hiring fractional CTO / AI engineering.

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$1–50M founders needing product/tech leadership and AI implementation.

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AI-first startups needing part-time CTO ownership of architecture, engineering hires, and security posture without full-time CTO cost

Pre-seed to Series A startups (AI-agent, digital identity, payments/fintech) needing part-time CTO ownership of architecture, hiring, and investor diligence without a full-time CTO hire

Companies where software, data, and automation are mission-critical and bad technical decisions are expensive

Non-technical founders who have raised and need embedded fractional CTO (8–12 hrs/wk published).

Non-technical founders / early-stage teams needing architecture, hiring, vendor oversight

Non-technical founders with a working SaaS product who need fractional technology leadership — audits, hiring/vetting, retainers

Founders and SMBs needing senior AI-focused fractional CTO judgment — what to build with agents/models, then ship to production without a full-time CTO

I help founder-led SaaS and digital ventures build, scale, and fix technology when they need senior technical leadership without hiring a full-time CTO.

VC-backed startups Seed–Series B needing CPO/CTO.

Founders (pre-seed–seed) and scale-ups (A/B) needing part-time CTO judgment on architecture, hiring, delivery

Growing companies needing architecture, PR review, and contractor oversight.

Startups that need part-time CTO ownership of architecture, hiring, vendors, and delivery without a $400K/year full-time CTO

Seed–Series A teams needing senior engineering leadership before a full-time CTO

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Non-technical founders needing strategy plus hands-on build (not a staffing shop).

Startups, established businesses, and accelerators wanting lean AI-augmented engineering leadership

B2B software, ecommerce, and AI-driven companies needing senior engineering authority.

Founders needing architecture, hiring, and AI calls without a full-time CTO salary.

Growth-stage SaaS (under ~250 people; eng teams ~10–60) needing strategy, AI adoption, architecture, hiring, board reporting

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Early- to mid-stage startup CEOs needing a fractional or interim technical counterpart — product strategy alignment, tech roadmap, and execution

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Startups building with AI that need a fractional CTO / Head of AI.

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Founders and technology leaders needing technical review, CTO-partner second opinion, or senior technical ownership without a full-time hire

SaaS startups and PE needing part-time CTO judgment on architecture, infra cost, hiring, diligence

AI startups needing architecture / AI roadmap / diligence judgment (site candid when role is a bad fit)