Fractional CTO and engineering team
A fractional technical lead from our LATAM network sets your architecture, hiring plan and engineering practices. When you need hands, full-stack engineers from the same bench join within days. One partner, one invoice.
A fractional CTO is a senior engineering leader who works with your company part time, typically one to three days a week, and owns technical strategy, architecture, vendor decisions and the engineering hiring plan. It gives startups and growing companies executive-level technical judgment without a full-time executive salary or equity package.
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First engineer shortlist for common roles
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* For common roles like full-stack. Other roles typically take 7 to 10 days.
How it works with us
Most fractional CTO offers stop at advice. You get a smart person for two days a week and a list of things your team should do, then nothing happens because nobody has time. We pair the technical lead with delivery capacity. The lead runs the assessment, sets the roadmap and makes the architecture calls. When the plan needs engineers, full-stack developers from the same vetted network join the team, often within the same month, and the lead manages them. To be clear about what this is: the fractional CTO is a senior engineer from our network with leadership experience, contracted through EnzRossi, not an EnzRossi executive. They work as part of your team and report to your founders.
Compare your options
Each fits a different stage. The table is deliberately even-handed: a fractional lead is the wrong choice for some companies, and we will say so on the first call.
| Model | Best for | How you pay | Typical timeline | Team shape |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fractional CTO plus engineers (EnzRossi) | Pre-seed to Series A companies, or SMBs whose product team has outgrown its founder-led technical decisions. | Typically $4,000 to $9,000 per month for 1 to 3 days a week. Engineers billed monthly on top. | 3-month minimum, then month to month. Most engagements run 6 to 18 months. | One senior lead, plus 1 to 5 engineers from the same network as needed. |
| Independent fractional CTO | Companies that only need advice and already have an engineering team to execute. | Typically $8,000 to $20,000 per month in the US for 1 to 2 days a week. | Open-ended retainers. | One person. Execution capacity is your problem. |
| Full-time CTO | Companies with a large engineering organization, a deep technical moat, or a board that expects a named technical executive. | $220,000 to $350,000 base plus equity in the US. Six months and a recruiter fee to hire. | Permanent. | Executive who builds and runs the whole engineering function. |
| Technical co-founder | Very early ideas where the technology is the company and someone must own it for years. | Significant equity, often 20 to 50 percent, plus a salary once funded. | Permanent, and very hard to unwind. | A partner, not a vendor. |
US compensation figures are typical market ranges in 2026 and vary by city and stage. Our pricing depends on days per week and seniority.
What you get
Architecture, infrastructure cost, security posture, code quality and team. Prioritized findings you can act on, whether or not you continue with us.
Decision records for stack, hosting, data and integrations, written so the next engineer understands why. No rewrites because the last contractor liked a different framework.
When the roadmap needs capacity, vetted full-stack engineers join within days and report to the lead. Leadership and execution stay aligned because they come from the same place.
Which roles to hire first, in what order, what to pay, and how to interview them. The lead can sit in on your interviews and technical assessments.
Someone senior reviews agency proposals, cloud bills, SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements, and the contracts you sign with other technical vendors.
When the company is ready, the fractional lead helps define the role, interview candidates and hand over. Leaving well is part of the job.
The process
Step 01
Two weeks reviewing your codebase, architecture, infrastructure costs, security posture, and team. You get a written findings report with priorities.
Step 02
We shortlist two or three senior engineers from our network with the right stack and leadership experience. You interview them and pick one.
Step 03
Days per week, standing meetings, decision rights, and how the lead works with your founders and vendors. Written down before the first week.
Step 04
A 90-day technical roadmap, a hiring or staffing plan, and the engineering practices to introduce first. Engineers from our bench can join the same month if you need capacity.
Step 05
Monthly reviews against the roadmap. When you are ready for a full-time CTO, the fractional lead helps you hire one and hands over cleanly.
Best fit
You have raised money and a product roadmap, and the biggest risk is making architecture and hiring decisions without senior technical judgment.
The founder who built v1 is now running sales or the whole company. Engineering needs a lead so the founder can step back without losing control.
An outsourced project ran over, the vendor is gone, and nobody in-house can judge the code. Assessment first, then a plan to finish or rebuild.
A logistics, healthcare or professional services company that needs technical leadership to buy, build and integrate software wisely.
FAQ
Start with the assessment
Book a call, tell us where engineering stands, and we will propose a lead, a cadence and a price. The assessment is useful even if you never continue with us.
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Cost, commitment, and fit by company stage. A comparison table and the questions to ask each candidate.
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