Senior technical leadership for startups and small teams — architecture, vendor calls, hiring, incidents, roadmaps. Scoped and priced per engagement. No retainer, no hourly clock.
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A full-time CTO costs $200k–$350k a year plus equity. Most startups under 30 people don't need that — they need senior judgment at a handful of critical moments. That's the entire model here: you bring the moment, we scope it together, and you pay a fixed price for the outcome — backed by experience across 100+ AWS accounts and $2M+ in optimized cloud spend.
Every engagement is scoped in writing with a fixed price before it starts. The work gets done, you review it, then you pay — no charge before delivery, every time. No monthly retainer quietly billing while nothing happens. When you don't need a CTO, you don't pay for one.
Free 30-minute call to define what you need · Written scope and fixed price before any money moves · Cancel anything with one message
Book a Free Scoping Call →Agencies sell teams and hours; their incentive is to grow the engagement. A fractional CTO with fixed-price scopes has the opposite incentive: finish well, so you come back at the next critical moment.
Here, it depends entirely on the engagement — a focused architecture review costs a fraction of a quarter-long roadmap. The scoping call is free and you'll have a written fixed price before deciding anything.
That's the normal case. I'm not there to replace your team — I'm there to give them senior cover on decisions they shouldn't have to make alone.
Deepest on AWS (100+ accounts audited, $2M+ in cloud costs optimized) and the modern web/backend ecosystem around it. If your problem is outside what I do well, I'll say so on the free call.
Start with the free 30-point AWS security checklist — a concrete taste of how I work: specific, actionable, no fluff.
Describe your AWS setup, your problem, or just the question keeping you up. You'll get a real answer from me — not a sales sequence. Prefer to talk instead? Book a free 30-min call →