Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire
A fractional CTO at Labs is not a Slack oracle and not a staff-aug developer. It is a weekly seat with your founder or leadership: roadmap, hiring, vendor and architecture decisions, and the operating cadence that keeps a small team shipping. The background is twenty years of enterprise SDLC — seventeen at Microsoft — applied to companies that cannot wait for a 90-day executive search.
Typical clients: a startup after a messy contractor build, a profitable small business whose site and ops are held together by one overloaded person, a team that just shipped v1 with us and wants the same pair to stay.
What the retainer includes
- A recurring working session with leadership — decisions, not status theater.
- Written calls on stack, hiring, and sequence.
- Review of the work your team or vendors produce.
- Optional hands-on spikes when a decision needs proof, not a memo.
Read what a fractional CTO actually does. If you need a scoped build first, start with a project and convert.