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The Fractional CTO Hiring Guide
A practical guide for founders and CEOs on how to evaluate, hire, and work with a fractional CTO. Includes interview questions, red flags, and engagement templates.
Get this resourceTechnical Due Diligence Checklist
The checklist we use when evaluating technology teams and platforms for investors and acquirers. Covers architecture, code quality, security, team, and processes.
Get this resourceProduct Roadmap Template
Our preferred product roadmap format that balances strategic vision with execution detail. Includes quarterly planning, OKR alignment, and stakeholder communication.
Get this resourceFractional CTO Scope of Work Template
A real, fillable scope-of-work template for a fractional CTO engagement. Covers responsibilities, deliverables, time commitment, pricing structure, exit criteria, and IP/confidentiality language. Saves 10+ hours of legal back-and-forth on the first engagement.
Get this resourceFractional CTO Interview Question Bank
75+ interview questions across architecture, hiring, vendor evaluation, AI strategy, board communication, and engagement red flags — the questions we'd ask if we were hiring a fractional CTO ourselves. Use these on your evaluation calls with any firm.
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A weighted scorecard for evaluating fractional CTO candidates against your specific stage, vertical, and goals. Forces honest comparison across firms instead of vibes-based decisions.
Get this resourceThe AI Engineering Audit
A 12-point diagnostic for whether your engineering org is getting real leverage from AI — or just typing faster. Covers where AI belongs in the workflow, the decisions you should never automate, and how to catch the confident, wrong PR before it ships. Score each item Yes, Partly, or No and total the result against the scoring guide.
Get this resourceFractional CTO vs Full-Time: The Cost Model
The loaded-cost math founders miss when deciding between a full-time and a fractional CTO. Covers the fully-loaded cost of each, when each one is genuinely the right call, and the most expensive early hire — plus how to avoid it.
Get this resourceThe Pre-Scale Architecture Checklist
What to check before you rebuild for scale you don't have yet, so you fix the two things that actually break instead of everything. Covers the questions that separate a real scaling problem from a focus problem, the cheapest wins that buy the most headroom, and when to extract a service — and when not to.
Get this resourceThe First 30 Days: Engagement Playbook
How a fractional CTO engagement should start so it pays for itself in the first month. Covers what to diagnose in week one, the quick wins that build trust fast, and the decision cadence that keeps working long after the first month.
Get this resourceThe Orchestrator Playbook
The portable operating manual for AI-native product development: a two-page brief on the orchestrator model plus the complete copy-paste prompt library for every phase — stand up the brain, run the phased pipeline, isolate parallel work in capsules, review, triage incidents, and onboard a teammate in three days.
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