Fractional CTO & R&D Strategic Advisory
Startups often fail because they build the wrong thing, or they build it too expensively. We act as your strategic technical partner, ensuring that every line of code written moves the business forward.
We provide the "Adult Supervision" required to scale an R&D organization, leveraging years of experience in high-level management meetings and strategic planning.
Core Capabilities
1. Roadmap & Vision Alignment
Bridging the gap between the CEO's vision and the engineers' backlog.
- Roadmap Definition: Translating abstract business goals into actionable, phased technology roadmaps.
- Product Strategy: Participating in high-level management meetings to ensure technical feasibility aligns with market timing.
- POC Execution: Directing Proof of Concept (POC) initiatives (such as AI features) to test market assumptions before full investment.
2. Budget & Cost Governance
We treat engineering resources as an investment portfolio.
- Budget Management: Extensive experience managing R&D budgets and achieving significant cost efficiencies.
- Vendor & Cloud Optimization: Strategies that have proven to reduce AWS infrastructure costs by ~40%.
- Recruiting Strategy: Assisting in defining roles, interviewing, and scaling teams (e.g., growing departments from 8 to 15 members).
3. Technical Due Diligence
- Code Audits: Assessing the health, scalability, and security of a codebase before you invest or scale.
- Legacy Assessment: Determining whether to refactor, rewrite, or rescue existing legacy systems.
