Your guide to startup
technical leadership

Tell us what's going wrong. Not what role you think you need — just the problem. Is your app slow? Are you about to hire engineers and don't know what to look for? Did investors ask a technical question you couldn't answer? We'll figure out the right type of expert and the right scope from there. The intake form takes 3 minutes.

Yes — and you're not alone. Most founders who come to us have already been through an agency or a bad hire. We're not an agency. You work directly with a single vetted expert: no project manager in the middle, no handoffs to junior developers, no disappearing after the invoice. The first conversation is free and there's no obligation to proceed.

Every expert goes through a multi-step review: we check their track record (what they actually shipped, not just where they worked), interview them on technical depth and startup judgment, run reference checks with past clients, and assess how they communicate with non-technical founders. Roughly 1 in 20 applicants make it in. We'd rather turn someone away than send you a match we're not confident in.

No catch. When we place an expert with your startup, they pay us a one-time 10% fee on their first month. You never pay anything: not now, not later. We built it this way because founders shouldn't have to pay to find help.

We'll rematch you. No extra cost, no awkward conversations — we handle it. It happens occasionally and we'd rather fix it than lose you. Our goal is a long-term fit, not a quick placement.

Pre-revenue is often the best time. A fractional CTO costs a fraction of a full-time hire, helps you avoid expensive technical mistakes, and can work as few as 5 hours a week. Most of our founders are pre-seed or seed stage.

Marketplaces give you profiles and leave you to evaluate. We give you 2–3 hand-picked matches based on your specific needs, stage, and industry. Every expert has been personally vetted for technical depth and startup experience, not just a skills test.

We send you 2–3 matched experts within 24 hours. Most founders have their first call within 48 hours and an expert working with them within a week.

The founders we work with get back 15–20 hours a week they were spending on tech decisions. Their teams ship faster because someone experienced is setting direction. A few hours of senior leadership goes further than 40 hours of guessing.