Discovery call — 30 minutes
Tell us about your product, your team and the technical decisions that are blocking you right now. We'll be direct: if a fractional CTO isn't the right fit, we'll say so and point you somewhere useful instead.
Fractional CTO Services — Senior Tech Leadership On Demand
A fractional CTO gives you senior technology leadership — architecture decisions, team building, product roadmap, investor due diligence — without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive hire. You get the outcomes, not the overhead. Available in days. No equity. No six-month notice period.
- Available in 3–5 days
- 60–80% less than a full-time CTO
- Strategy + execution under one roof
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You don't need a fractional CTO for everything. You do need one when technology decisions are blocking progress and nobody on the team has the seniority to own them.
Signs you need a fractional CTO
No technical co-founder
Your team is business-side heavy. Architecture decisions are being made by the cheapest contractor available. A fractional CTO owns the technical vision so you're not building the wrong product on the wrong stack.
Engineers without direction
You have developers shipping code but no one setting standards, resolving technical disagreements, or translating product goals into a coherent roadmap. Velocity drops as the team gets bigger.
Fundraising or due diligence
Investors are asking technical questions you can't answer. Your CTO as a service handles the data room, manages due diligence conversations and gives investors confidence in your technical foundation.
Scaling pains and technical debt
Performance is degrading, deploys are getting riskier and the team is afraid to touch core systems. An outsourced CTO diagnoses the real problem and sets a remediation plan before the next incident.
CTO departure or gap
Your CTO left — or is about to. An interim CTO bridges the gap: keeps the team stable, the roadmap moving, and runs a proper handover while you search for a permanent replacement.
Making first engineering hires
Ready to build the team but unsure what senior looks like or how to interview engineers? A fractional CTO defines the hiring bar, selects the stack and sets up processes before the first junior joins.
What our fractional CTO does for you
Tech Strategy & Architecture
Hiring & Team Building
Roadmap & Vendor Management
Investor & Due-Diligence Support
Book a call with a CTO
From first call to your CTO embedded in the team — in under a week.
How to hire a fractional CTO
Tech audit — week one
Your CTO reviews codebase, architecture, infrastructure and team. Output is a written audit report and a prioritised technical roadmap — specific enough to act on, honest enough to share with investors.
Embedded and running — week two
Sprint cadence, communication channels, engineering standards and reporting are all live. Where the Binerals engineering team is involved, handoffs are clean from day one. No onboarding lag.
Ongoing — scale up or down as needed
More hours during a fundraise or product launch, fewer when the team runs independently. Monthly strategic reviews keep the roadmap aligned with business reality. Most engagements run 12–18 months.
Strategy and execution under one roof
Most fractional CTOs are solo consultants — they advise, then leave you to execute alone. Binerals is different: your fractional CTO defines the architecture, and the Binerals engineering team builds it. One engagement, no gap between vision and delivery. Not sure where to start? Try our Discovery Phase first.
When to hire a fractional CTO
Your founding team is business-side heavy and you need a credible technical leader to own architecture decisions, evaluate build-vs-buy tradeoffs, and speak to engineering talent and investors.
Why choose Binerals for fractional CTO services
Strategy doesn't stop at advice
Most fractional CTOs hand you a roadmap and leave. Ours work directly alongside the Binerals engineering team — architecture decisions translate into actual code, without a second vendor or a handoff that loses context.
Senior experience, verified
Every CTO in our network is screened on delivery track record, leadership history and domain fit — not just years on a CV. We check real exits, real fundraises and real team-building decisions.
Plain-language for non-technical founders
Our CTOs translate technical reality into business terms — and business goals into engineering decisions. You don't need to understand the stack to get useful answers from weekly calls.
Fractional CTO, interim CTO, or CTO as a service — choose the model that matches your stage and budget, not the most expensive one available.
Fractional vs interim vs full-time CTO
Advisory — 4–8 hrs/week
Weekly strategy calls and async input on key decisions. For companies with a technical lead who needs a senior sounding board, or founders who want a CTO perspective without full-team involvement. Month-to-month. Lowest commitment.
Part-Time Embedded — 16–24 hrs/week
Full CTO function at part-time commitment. Sprint planning, code standards, stakeholder calls, hiring, technical roadmap ownership. The most common model for seed and Series A companies. Works directly with the Binerals engineering team where execution is needed.
Interim CTO — Full-Time, 1–6 months
Full engineering org ownership for a defined period. Covers CTO departure, fundraising sprint, M&A or pre-IPO technical preparation. Same scope as a permanent CTO hire — without the equity, the search timeline, or the six-month notice period if things change.
How we vet our fractional CTOs
We don't list every available CTO. We only work with those who've passed our leadership and delivery bar.
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Track record review
We verify the companies they've led, the products they've shipped and the teams they've scaled. We look for exits, fundraising wins and engineering transformations — not just years on a CV.
Leadership interview
A senior Binerals partner interviews every candidate on communication style, decision-making under pressure, stakeholder management and how they handle failure.
Technical depth assessment
We assess architecture thinking, security awareness, scaling decisions and build-vs-buy reasoning. Strong fractional CTOs can go deep on any layer of the stack — and explain it to a non-technical CEO.
Reference checks with founders
We speak directly with CEOs and founders they've worked with. We ask about reliability, transparency, delivery quality and what they'd do differently.
Domain match
Not every CTO fits every company. We verify that the candidate's domain experience — SaaS, fintech, healthtech, marketplace, consumer — aligns with your product and market before making an introduction.
Ongoing monitoring
We stay close to every engagement. Monthly check-ins with the founder flag misalignment early and allow us to adjust scope or swap quickly if needed. You're never stuck.
We don't list every available CTO. We only work with those who've passed our leadership and delivery bar.
1Track record review
We verify the companies they've led, the products they've shipped and the teams they've scaled. We look for exits, fundraising wins and engineering transformations — not just years on a CV.
2Leadership interview
A senior Binerals partner interviews every candidate on communication style, decision-making under pressure, stakeholder management and how they handle failure.
3Technical depth assessment
We assess architecture thinking, security awareness, scaling decisions and build-vs-buy reasoning. Strong fractional CTOs can go deep on any layer of the stack — and explain it to a non-technical CEO.
4Reference checks with founders
We speak directly with CEOs and founders they've worked with. We ask about reliability, transparency, delivery quality and what they'd do differently.
5Domain match
Not every CTO fits every company. We verify that the candidate's domain experience — SaaS, fintech, healthtech, marketplace, consumer — aligns with your product and market before making an introduction.
6Ongoing monitoring
We stay close to every engagement. Monthly check-ins with the founder flag misalignment early and allow us to adjust scope or swap quickly if needed. You're never stuck.