Senior technical leadership, on the calendar you actually have.
Fractional CTO and architecture review for founders, ops leaders, and engineering managers who need senior judgment without a full-time hire.
There's a stage in every company where the technical decisions outpace the technical leadership: a founder who needs a strategy review, a COO who inherited engineering, a head of engineering who needs a peer.
Our advisory practice fills that gap. A senior principal works directly with you on a weekly cadence: roadmaps, hiring loops, vendor selection, architecture reviews, and the awkward conversations.
We don't replace your team. We give you the senior, calm voice you need to decide well — and the documentation trail to support those decisions later.
The work, in plain language
No buzzwords. Each item below is something we'll do for you, in the order we'll do it.
- 01
Set the technical narrative
We help you write down what you're building, why, and how — in language your board, your team, and your customers can read.
- 02
Build a 12-month roadmap
Quarterly themes with named owners, defined exit criteria, and explicit risks. Revisited monthly, rewritten quarterly.
- 03
Run hiring loops you trust
Job descriptions, interview rubrics, debriefs, and offer calibration. We can sit on your loop until your team is ready.
- 04
Review architecture and tech debt
Quarterly architecture reviews with written ADRs and a debt register prioritized by impact and effort.
- 05
Pick vendors and stacks
RFP design, vendor scoring, and contract review. We sit on your side of the table, not the vendor's.
- 06
Coach your senior engineers
1:1s with your tech leads to share patterns, raise their game, and prevent them from solving for us.
What lands in your repo
- Written 12-month technical roadmap
- Quarterly architecture review document
- Hiring rubrics & interview loops
- Vendor evaluation reports
- Engineering ladder & calibration notes
- Risk register and tech debt backlog
- Board-ready technical narrative
- Weekly written status
Who this fits
- Founders without a CTO
- COOs who inherited engineering
- VPs of Engineering with a new mandate
- Companies preparing for a fundraise
- Boards needing technical due diligence
- Engineering managers who need a peer
Things people ask before signing
If your question isn't here, send it our way and we'll answer plainly.
We don't write production code in the advisory engagement. We focus on judgment, decisions, and leverage — the work that scales your team rather than replacing it.
Ready when you are
Let's build something durable.
Tell us about your goals. We'll respond within one business day with next steps.