We step in as your interim CTO within days — taking ownership of technical decisions, steadying the team, and briefing your board — while you run the search for a permanent hire at your own pace.
A CTO search averages 5 to 6 months. Meanwhile: deadlines drift, your best engineers interview elsewhere, architectural decisions get avoided, and your board asks questions you can’t fully answer. Every month of leadership vacuum costs more than a year of our engagement.
We assess the codebase, the pipeline, and the people. You get the honest picture, in plain language.
We take over technical decision-making, become the escalation point for engineering, and re-sequence the roadmap around what the business actually needs.
You walk into your next board meeting with a credible technical story and a 30/60/90-day plan. We’ll be in the room if you want us there.
This isn’t a land-and-expand consultancy. Our job ends with a successful handoff — we help you scope the permanent role, interview your finalists, and transition them into a stabilized team. We’ve done this handoff 20+ times.
Flexible retainer, 10–40 hours per week. No equity. No long-term lock-in. No $300K+ salary while you’re still deciding your next step. If you need us tomorrow, emergency availability exists at a premium rate.
“Working with them felt like having a senior product team embedded with us. The attention to detail in every component was remarkable.”
Product lead at SaaS co.
Days. First call this week, on the ground next week.
That’s the first-week job, and it’s why we lead with listening and an audit, not mandates. Teams accept leaders who make their work make sense again.
Perfect. We keep the company moving and make the eventual hire’s first 90 days dramatically easier.
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