Get a dedicated CTO-level technical leader for your startup — strategy, architecture, hiring, and investor support — at 20% of the cost of a full-time hire.
Define your technical roadmap, prioritize what to build, and align engineering decisions with business goals.
Choose the right stack, design scalable systems, and make technology bets that won't haunt you in 2 years.
Write job descriptions, screen candidates, conduct technical interviews, and help you build your engineering culture.
Prepare technical documentation, answer investor DD questions, and present your architecture to technical evaluators.
Evaluate third-party tools, APIs, and infrastructure vendors. Know what you're getting into before you sign.
Review your team's code, catch technical debt before it accumulates, and establish coding standards.
20 hours/month. Scale up to 40 hours for fundraising or hiring sprints.
Start Fractional CTOA Fractional CTO is a part-time Chief Technology Officer. Instead of paying $150K–$300K/year for a full-time CTO, you get senior technical leadership for a fraction of the cost — typically 20 hours/month at $2,200/month with Aviga. They provide the strategy, oversight, and expertise without the overhead.
Typically: (1) Non-technical founders who need a technical voice in the room when talking to investors or vendors, (2) Early-stage startups that have 1–5 developers but no one to lead strategy, (3) Companies that have raised seed money and need to hire their first engineering team, (4) Founders preparing for Series A due diligence.
Our standard Fractional CTO engagement is 20 hours/month. This is enough for: weekly 1-hour strategic calls, asynchronous reviews of architecture decisions and PRDs, code/architecture reviews, and hiring support. For more intensive periods (fundraising, key hires), we can scale to 40 hours/month.
Fractional CTO is an ongoing relationship where you have a dedicated technical leader involved in your company's decisions. Technical Consulting is typically project-based — a one-time audit, architecture review, or technology selection engagement without the ongoing leadership component.
Aviga's Fractional CTO service is primarily strategic — not execution. If you need hands-on engineering alongside CTO-level strategy, our Engineering Partner retainer (which includes both strategy and code) is a better fit.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your technical needs and how a Fractional CTO can help.
