Senior technical leadership a few days a week, with the engineers to execute.
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.
Free, no commitment. Takes about 30 seconds.
* For common roles like full-stack. Other roles typically take 7 to 10 days.
Your next engineer
Lucas A.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
São Paulo, BR·9 yrs
Sample profiles from our talent network: 3,000+ professionals in 6 countries.
200+ people placed with teams like
200+
People Allocated
5%
Of applicants make our active bench
97%
Client Satisfaction
3 days*
Average Time to First Match
Across fintech, edtech, SaaS, and e-commerce engineering teams in the US
* For common roles like full-stack. Other roles typically take 7 to 10 days.
What is a fractional CTO?
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.
How it works with us
Leadership and execution from the same bench.
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
Fractional CTO, full-time CTO, or technical co-founder.
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. | 2-week trial, then month to month with 30 days notice. 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
Executive judgment without the executive overhead.
A written technical assessment in two weeks
Architecture, infrastructure cost, security posture, code quality and team.
Architecture decisions that stick
Decision records for stack, hosting, data and integrations, written so the next engineer understands why.
Engineers from the same network
When the roadmap needs capacity, vetted full-stack engineers join within days and report to the lead.
A hiring plan you can execute
Which roles to hire first, in what order, what to pay, and how to interview them.
Vendor and security oversight
Someone senior reviews agency proposals, cloud bills, SOC 2 and HIPAA requirements, and the contracts you sign with other technical vendors.
A clean path to a full-time CTO
When the company is ready, the fractional lead helps define the role, interview candidates and hand over.
Want to see profiles before you decide?
Tell us who you need. The first shortlist arrives in 3 days for common roles, with no commitment.
The process
Assessment first, then leadership with a plan.
- 01
Technical assessment
Two weeks reviewing your codebase, architecture, infrastructure costs, security posture, and team.
- 02
Match the technical lead
We shortlist two or three senior engineers from our network with the right stack and leadership experience.
- 03
Agree the operating rhythm
Days per week, standing meetings, decision rights, and how the lead works with your founders and vendors.
- 04
Roadmap and team plan
A 90-day technical roadmap, a hiring or staffing plan, and the engineering practices to introduce first.
- 05
Run, review, and transition
Monthly reviews against the roadmap.
What you are actually signing
Try an engineer for two weeks. Keep them only if they earn it.
Shortlist in 3 days*
Three candidates reviewed against your brief by hand, not a database dump.
2-week trial
If the fit is wrong, you pay for the days worked and nothing else.
30-day replacement
Engineer leaves or does not work out in the first 30 days?
Month-to-month
30 days notice.
Not ready for a call? Just tell us who you need.
No calendar, no sales sequence. Send this and we will reply with profiles that fit.
How we use AI
AI in every step.People sign off on all of it.
Every team we place works with AI tools from day one and keeps training on them as new models and practices appear. It makes the work faster. It does not replace the review.
What stays human
- Peer review on every pull request
- Manual and automated testing
- QA before anything ships
- Architecture and product decisions
Planning
Break down scope, estimate, and spot risks before the sprint starts.
Coding
Scaffold, refactor, and pair with AI inside the editor.
Testing
Generate test cases and edge cases. People decide what passes.
Documentation
Keep docs and PR descriptions current without the Friday scramble.
Research
Compare libraries, read specs, and prototype faster.
Code review
First pass by AI, final call by a person.
Need AI inside your product? The engineers we place build that too.
AI & ML developmentBest fit
Right for companies at these moments.
Funded startups without a technical founder
You have raised money and a product roadmap, and the biggest risk is making architecture and hiring decisions without senior technical judgment.
Growing companies whose technical founder is stretched
The founder who built v1 is now running sales or the whole company.
Companies rescuing a stalled agency build
An outsourced project ran over, the vendor is gone, and nobody in-house can judge the code.
Non-tech businesses building software for the first time
A logistics, healthcare or professional services company that needs technical leadership to buy, build and integrate software wisely.
Before you decide
The doubts everyone has before hiring us.
And what we do about each one.
I've been burned by agencies that just forward resumes.
Only 5% of applicants pass our five-dimension vetting.
Remote engineers disappear or jump to another job.
Your account contact runs a structured check-in every month with you and, separately, with the engineer, so problems surface early.
It will cost more than hiring directly or using a freelancer.
You pay one monthly invoice with no placement fee.
No placement feeI don't want outsiders touching our code and data.
Every engineer signs a full NDA before day one, code belongs to your company from the moment it is written, and access goes only to the people who need it, under your security policies.
FAQ
Questions about fractional CTO engagements
Start with the assessment
Get a senior technical read on your company in two weeks.
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.
What happens next
- 1
You tell us what you need. It takes about 2 minutes.
- 2
A real person replies within 4 business hours.
- 3
First shortlist in 3 days*. You interview and choose.
* For common roles like full-stack. Other roles typically take 7 to 10 days.
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