Fractional CTO, without the theatre.
What embedded technical leadership actually looks like week to week — the audits, the uncomfortable conversations, and the 90-day arc that turns chaos into a shipping team.
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How to Choose a Fractional CTO (From Someone Who Is One)
What to look for in a fractional CTO, when you need one, and how to structure the engagement. Written by a fractional CTO who works with startups and web3 projects.
What a Fractional CTO Does, Week by Week
A first-person account of fractional CTO work in practice: decisions, context-switching, code, hiring, stakeholder calls, and the moments when the model stops working.
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The Founder's First-90-Days Tech Audit
What a Fractional CTO looks at first.
6 pages · PDF Inside:
- The first three months of an embedded engagement: what gets audited
- what gets decided
- what gets shipped
- and which uncomfortable conversations usually surface
Quick breakdown of the workflows, stack choices, and where the hours come back first.
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