How many hours per week?

Typically 8-12 hours/week. Some weeks more (during hiring or architecture decisions), some weeks less. Flexible based on needs.

Do you manage the engineering team?

Not day-to-day. We provide strategic guidance, architecture reviews, and mentorship - but your engineering lead handles daily management. We complement, not replace.

What's the engagement model?

Monthly retainer with defined weekly commitment. Minimum 3-month engagement to see meaningful impact. Most clients stay 6-12 months through critical growth phases.

Fractional CTO

CTO-level thinking. Startup-level cost.

Senior technical leadership and strategic guidance without the ₹50L/year salary.

You need a CTO but can't justify ₹50L+ salary for a full-time hire. Your engineering decisions are being made by developers who are great at code but haven't built at scale. Architecture choices, hiring decisions, vendor evaluations, and technical strategy - these need experienced leadership. You don't need it 40 hours a week. You need it at the right moments.

Sound familiar?

The problems you're facing.

No senior technical voice

Engineers make architecture decisions without business context. Business makes technology choices without engineering input.

Can't evaluate technical hires

You're hiring developers but can't assess their actual capability. Bad hires cost 6 months of wasted time.

Architecture decisions without experience

You're choosing between AWS and GCP, monolith and microservices, build and buy - without someone who's seen what happens at 100x.

Technical debt growing silently

Nobody's making the case for refactoring. Velocity is declining but nobody can articulate why or how to fix it.

Our Approach

How we deliver this.

We provide fractional CTO engagement: strategic technical leadership on the decisions that matter most. Architecture reviews, hiring guidance, technology strategy, vendor evaluation, and engineering process design. You get the thinking without the full-time overhead.

Assessment

Review current technical state - architecture, team, processes, and roadmap. Identify gaps and risks.

Strategy

Technology roadmap aligned with business goals. Clear priorities for the next 6-12 months.

Governance

Architecture review process, decision frameworks, and engineering standards.

Advisory

Regular sessions for hiring reviews, technical decisions, and strategic guidance as needs arise.

What You Get

Deliverables.

Technical assessment & health check

Technology strategy & roadmap

Architecture review process

Engineering hiring framework

Vendor evaluation criteria

Ongoing advisory sessions

Expected Results

Outcomes.

Architecture decisions that hold at 10-100x scale

Better engineering hires from structured evaluation

Technical debt addressed before it cripples velocity

Business-technology alignment from senior leadership

Proof

We've delivered this before.

EdTech & Social

ShareSquare

ShareSquare envisioned a new paradigm in education - a platform where learning is social, gamified, and peer-monetized. Students teach each other, earn rewards, build libraries of knowledge, and transact through a student wallet. The technical challenge was immense: real-time social feeds, gamification engines, content libraries, peer-to-peer payments, and a mobile-first experience that feels as engaging as Instagram but delivers educational outcomes.

Platforms: Web + Mobile

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Music & Entertainment Tech

Audiouly

Audiouly needed to build a B2B music streaming platform that operates at scale - delivering curated, licensed music streams to 1000+ businesses at 5000+ locations simultaneously, across multiple countries. Unlike consumer streaming, B2B music requires different licensing, scheduling, zone management, and real-time control. The platform needed to handle concurrent streams at scale while giving business owners granular control over what plays in their establishments.

Active Businesses: 1,000+

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Event Tech

NIMNTRN

NIMNTRN aims to be the single platform where personal, professional, and corporate events are managed end-to-end. From planning a wedding to organizing a corporate conference - one app. The product needed AI-powered planning assistance, vendor recommendation engine, digital invitations with guest management, real-time notifications, a social feed for live guest engagement during events, and a memory vault for event media sharing. The scope was massive, but the vision was clear: replace 10 event planning tools with one intelligent platform.

Event Types: 3 categories

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Book a free strategy call. We'll assess your situation and recommend the right approach. No pitch deck, no pressure.

CTO-level thinking. Startup-level cost.