Early-stage startups can't always afford a full-time AI CTO, but they still need their product to actually work. As your Fractional CTO, I own the architecture, the hard technical calls, and the delivery — so you can build and raise with confidence.
What I own · architecture across the whole stack
The most expensive mistakes in a startup are technical ones made early — the wrong architecture, the wrong hire, an AI feature that never reaches reliability. A Fractional CTO removes that risk affordably.
Founders making high-stakes architecture and AI decisions without anyone who's done it before.
A promising demo that can't become a reliable, affordable production product.
No one senior enough to evaluate, hire, and lead the engineering team you're building.
A roadmap that ties technology and AI directly to your business and fundraising goals.
Scalable, cost-aware system and AI architecture — and the discipline to ship it reliably.
Define roles, evaluate candidates, set engineering standards, and lead your developers.
Make your AI features accurate, fast and affordable with real evaluation and observability.
Be the credible technical voice in diligence, pitches and board conversations.
Right-size your cloud, tooling and model spend so runway lasts longer.
We assess your product, stage, team and the technical risks that matter most.
A prioritised technical & AI roadmap aligned to your runway and goals.
I own architecture, key decisions and delivery cadence alongside your team.
As you grow, I help hire and onboard your full-time technical leadership.
Representative engagements drawn from leading technology and AI delivery. Client names are protected under NDA.
A new B2B appliance marketplace needed end-to-end technical ownership to launch and scale fast.
Owned architecture and delivery of a multi-vendor platform — catalog, RFQ, bulk orders and B2B checkout — and led the team building it.
Reached ₹100 Crore GMV in its first operating year as a category-first marketplace.
A legacy monolith was throttling performance and the team's ability to ship.
Led a re-architecture to a modern MERN + headless-CMS stack with caching and a CDN, coordinating the cutover.
Migrated 200,000+ users with sub-2s catalog loads and far faster delivery velocity.
An early-stage team had a promising AI demo that couldn't reach production reliability or sane cost.
Set the architecture, added evaluation and observability, and led the engineers to a durable, cost-aware system.
Shipped to real users with measurable quality and a roadmap the founders could fundraise on.
Frequent production incidents were eroding trust and burning the team's time.
Introduced code-review protocols, automated PR quality gates and AI observability standards across teams.
Reduced production incidents by ~35% over six months while raising delivery confidence.
A Fractional CTO is an experienced technology leader who works with your startup part-time — owning architecture, technical strategy, hiring and delivery — for a fraction of the cost of a full-time CTO. You get senior judgement without a senior salary.
A great full-time CTO in AI commands a very high salary plus equity, and most early startups can't justify that yet — but they still need their AI product to actually work. A Fractional CTO gives you that senior leadership at 20–40% of the cost and risk, exactly when you need it most.
Technical strategy and roadmap, system and AI architecture, technology choices, engineering hiring and standards, vendor decisions, security and scalability, and being the technical voice for investors and the team.
Yes. Most founders know AI is core to their product but lack a senior architect who has actually shipped agentic AI, RAG and LLM systems in production. That's precisely the gap I fill.
Engagements typically run from a few days a month up to a couple of days a week, scoped to your stage. As you grow, I can also help you hire and onboard your first full-time CTO or VP Engineering.
Book a discovery call and let's pressure-test your tech and AI plan.
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