For founders building real software but not yet ready for a $200K + equity full-time CTO. We give you 1–2 days/week of senior engineering leadership: architecture, hiring, code reviews, MVP shipping, technical-due-diligence prep for the next round. Currently CTO of HIRO MINDS healthcare SaaS — your engagement gets the same engineering judgment.
One-page architecture diagram of what you're building, what you're skipping, and where the technical debt is going to bite you. Updated every quarter. Shared with your seed/Series A investors when they ask.
We sit on every engineering interview. We write the role spec, screen the resume pile, take the technical interview, and give you a hire/no-hire write-up. We've prevented two bad senior hires for HIRO MINDS at $180K each — that's the entire annual cost of this engagement, recovered in week 1.
Every PR over 500 lines goes through us. Every architecture-changing PR goes through us. Every PR your most junior engineer sends, we review with feedback. Quality stays high without slowing down velocity.
If you're pre-product, we'll ship the MVP with you. We've taken HIRO MINDS from concept to live therapy platform serving real patients. Same playbook for your product, scoped to your timeline and capital.
Six weeks before your next raise, we walk you through a fund's typical technical-due-diligence checklist (security, GDPR/HIPAA, scalability, hiring plan, IP) and ship the binder so it's ready when the term sheet lands.
Two scheduled half-days a week — Tuesday + Thursday by default — plus async Slack as needed. Monthly written status report. Quarterly written re-scoping of the engagement.
Not a fit if: you need a full-time founding CTO equity package, you're pre-team and need someone to write all the code, or you're scaling past 12 engineers (you should hire full-time at that point — happy to refer).