Leadership
Fractional CTO
Hands-on technical leadership for founders scaling their first engineering org.
A senior technical partner in the room with you — for architecture calls, hiring, investor conversations and the difficult trade-offs founders have to make weekly.
What's included
Deliverables
Every engagement is scoped to a concrete set of outputs — no vague retainers.
Results
Outcomes we've delivered.
0 → 12
Engineers hired
Fieldnote's founder handed off hiring, architecture and reporting to focus on customers.
2×
Deploy frequency
Rewired CI/CD and code review to ship safely, twice as often.
1
Board technical partner
Investor-ready updates and diligence responses handled end-to-end.
Process
How this engagement runs.
Audit
Team, code, infra, roadmap. Honest read on strengths and risks.
Stabilize
Fix the highest-leverage issues — usually hiring loop, on-call, and review cadence.
Scale
Level up engineers, introduce rituals, evolve architecture as you grow.
Hand off
Recruit and coach your full-time head of engineering, then step back.
Gallery
A look at the work.
Leadership review
Weekly 1:1 cadence
Hiring loop
Structured interviews
Architecture map
Systems review
Board update
Technical narrative
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