68% of startups collapse because founders do struggle with product-market fit, financial issues or wrong teams. You must focus on simple, stage-relevant, quick-to-deliver technical solutions
Corporate experience significantly differs from something startups need. CTOs repeat well-known patterns which start wasting your time and money building scalable architectures prior to market-fit
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Employment cost is the most expensive part of early-stage innovation. Stop wasting money on software engineering while you validate idea, stop hiring top-tier engineers who will overcomplicate solutions
Founders say that more than 47% of ideas are not implemented because lack of required technical knowledge and business tools.
Can I adopt this new AI? How much effort would that require? You just want to ask someone with technical background but nobody cares
During the first call we:
- discuss your idea
- clarify technical challenges and opportunities to launch quicker
After the call:
- you get a complimentary checklist what could be your next steps
Explore a curated knowledge base any time. Receive updates every week. Cancel anytime.
Included:
- Access to a curated technologies knowledge base
- Access to a curated use-case knowledge base
- Access to a curated guide knowledge base
- Private email newsletter on updates of the knowledge base
per month
+ VAT
Deep dive and tech review of your idea. Our purpose here is to guide you through all technical challenges to make the validation process smooth and quick meanwhile minimizing your costs and maximizing tech confidence. The measurable objective here is to reach the first payment from your first customer what makes your concept proven.
Included:
- 90 min call to make a deep dive
- Detailed review of your idea
- Actionable Advice
per session
+ VAT
All required assistance on idea validation stage. Our purpose here is to guide you through all technical challenges to make the validation process smooth and quick meanwhile minimizing your costs and maximizing tech confidence. The measurable objective here is to reach the first payment from your first customer what makes your concept proven. Cancel anytime.
Included:
- Everything included in Solo
- 30 min call to discuss your idea
- An assigned technical expert
- Weekly 1-hour sessions (4 per month)
- Tech guidance how to build Proof of Concept (PoC) with minimal required efforts
- Tech guidance how to measure traction of your PoC
per month
+ VAT
Fractional CTO for efficient management and timely delivery.
Our purpose here to deliver your product to market as a minimal viable solution.
Included:
- Assigned part-time CTO
- Audit of traction
- Skin in the game
- Introduction to our network (incl. investors, software engineers with startup-mindset, etc.)
- Quick time-to-market
- Assistance in pitch deck
- Assistance in building the foundation team
- Launching initial processes
- Technologies tailored to your problems, not to CTO's portfolio
- Saving tens and hundreds of thousands on product development
- Clear Intellectual Property
Fractional CTO for efficient management and timely delivery.
Our purpose here is not just to prepare your product to scale in general but rather find the right cost-effective solution after analysis of your market fit.
Included:
- Assigned part-time CTO
- Audit of traction
- Skin in the game
- Introduction to our network (incl. investors, software engineers with startup-mindset, etc.)
- Quick time-to-market
- Assistance in pitch deck
- Building the foundation team
- Launching initial processes
- Technologies tailored to your problems, not to CTO's portfolio
- Saving tens and hundreds of thousands on product development
- Clear Intellectual Property
Alighnment of your vision with technology strategy made by your CTO.
Our purpose here is identify risk points which might put your business at risk.
Included:
- An assigned tech auditor
- Bi-annual tech evaluations
- Requirements review
- Workforce relevance review
- Tech relevance review
- Processes relevance review
- Report with all results and actionable advice
Testimonials
Discover how our expertise has empowered startups to achieve their goals.
We dissected my idea in detail, broke down the budget, and pinpointed what to tackle first and what to skip. That clarity opened up new opportunities, showed me how to test the concept, and saved me $30,000 of redundant software development.
As I explored launching a community for my immigrant-focused social impact startup, I realised that tackling the technical hurdles was vital to the user experience I envisioned. Thanks to timely expert guidance, I pivoted early and avoided getting bogged down in the endless maintenance overhead.
As a CPO I know speed is everything - time is the one resource you never get back. I needed a lean way to launch and test my AI startup idea fast. After a brief chat I got exactly that: clear, actionable technical guidance on how to build at zero development cost and move immediately.
Transparency is our core value, so we belive that those fair questions below must be answered even before our first call
You don't need to have anything except your idea to start. No legal entities, no employees, no revenue. Literally, just you and your idea. Book a complimentary 30-minute consultation to discuss your vision. If you already on the next stage, you still find valuable to get a free tech perspective on something you create. If you already hired a someone technical - get the second opinion.
Likely, you don't. That's a common misconception that you as a non-technical founder need someone technical committed to your idea for full-time. It makes bariers and slows down your innovation. We provide the practically required level of technical assistance aligned with your idea's current stage. This is time and money efficient approach which increases your chances to succeed as a business not as a technology in vacuum.
We provide end-to-end technical partnership for early-stage innovations. Not outsourcing, not outstaffing. We are your tech partner. We don't have any incentive to sell you more workforce, that's why we focus on your actual requirements of the business behind any of your idea with flat payment structure. We help you to build the right culture and healthy thinking about tech instead of selling development where you don't need it.
That's a big challenge to find the right CTO on early-stage. Seasoned technical experts from large technical companies are the worst ever employees for startups on average. Solutions for starups and solutions in big tech differ significantly. Sometimes monthly Amazon Web Services bill is enough to maintain your startup's runway for a year or more. The difference is clear, big tech requires a lot of custom solutions and scalable deployments which are non-sense for a startup with less than 10 000 of active users and less than $1 500 000 ARR.
Of course. Vendor-locking is out of our values. If you decide to stop using our services and hire a full-time Chief Technical Officer, we can help you to find the best fit for your business and gently handover all the available knowledge to keep your business working as before. Long-term customer happiness is greater than short term sales. If you still want to keep as a partner we provide semiannual tech audits of your tech landscape in a form of a report which highlights the risks we identify in your CTO's tech strategy
Yes. All our monthly-based packages require to have only one week notice. For example, if we had our first session on the first days of September and after two weeks you found your idea not performing on the level you've expected and you need a break, you have reasonable amount of time to send the notice to us and take a pause from October.
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