Executive strategy backed by a full engineering bench.
How It Works
We assess your tech, team, and goals in one week. You keep it regardless.
You get a tailored tech strategy for your stage and industry. Yours to keep.
Your fractional CTO joins standups, reviews, leadership meetings, and stays available for urgent calls.
Monthly strategy reviews, quarterly roadmap updates, plus direct access to our engineering team.
What Your Engagement Covers
A 12–18 month board-ready roadmap, updated quarterly and built to pass investor scrutiny.
Clear product plans that balance what's possible with what drives revenue. CPO coverage included.
We run your dev team: hiring, process, performance, and the tough calls leaders avoid.
Cut cloud waste, speed up releases, and add observability that stops silent production issues.
We handle the tech questions from your board and investors so you don't have to.
Find real AI value. Decide build vs buy, design compliant architecture, and ship it.
Engagement Models
40%
Average reduction in development costs across our engineering engagements, driven by tighter architecture decisions and process uplift inside the first quarter.
60%
Faster time-to-market after introducing structured sprint processes, roadmap discipline, and the cross-functional alignment that most early stage teams lack.
85%
Of fractional CTO engagements extend beyond the initial scope, because the value compounds once the first strategic decisions are made. Source: market benchmarks.
Testimonials
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FAQ
A fractional CTO is a senior technology leader embedded in your business part-time, responsible for the same decisions a full-time CTO would make, scaled to the time your stage requires. Not an advisor on a monthly call. Not a mentor. A fractional CTO has decision authority, attends your standups, runs your sprint reviews, and represents your technology to your board and investors. The role covers five domains: Technology strategy and 12–18 month roadmap Engineering team direction: hiring, structure, mentoring, and performance Investor communication: Technology narrative and due diligence responses Architecture and platform decisions, including AI and cloud Ongoing operational judgement Businesses hire a fractional CTO in four situations: No CTO and no budget for a full-time hire A CTO gap during a search A scaleup that has outgrown founder-led Technology decisions Interim coverage during a transition, turnaround, or modernisation
A fractional CTO is a senior technology leader embedded part-time in your business, responsible for the strategic technology decisions a full-time CTO would make. The role covers technology strategy, engineering leadership, investor communication, architecture, and hiring, scaled to your stage.
Dutch Technology Frontiers fractional CTO engagements start from €3,500 a month for a 2-day commitment. Most active engagements sit between €5,000 and €15,000 a month. No equity is taken. Pricing is fixed monthly so you can plan cash flow with confidence.
A fractional CTO has decision authority and is embedded in your team, attending meetings and leading the engineering function. CTO as a service typically refers to a subscription advisory model without embedded decision-making. Dutch Technology Frontiers delivers the fractional model.
Engagements range from 2 to 10 days a month, with most at 4–6 days. The commitment is reviewed quarterly. Scaling up or down requires 30 days' notice on either side.
A fractional CTO is the right hire when the business needs senior technology judgement but lacks the cash or operational maturity for a full-time executive. A full-time CTO becomes the right hire when the engineering team exceeds roughly fifteen people, or when technology decisions require daily on-site presence.
Yes. Leading the engineering team is a core part of every Dutch Technology Frontiers fractional CTO engagement: standups, sprint reviews, one-to-ones, hiring, and performance frameworks. If the team also needs delivery capacity, we pair the fractional CTO with a Dutch Technology Frontiers engineering team under one agreement.
Yes. Fractional CPO engagements follow the same embedded model, focused on product strategy, roadmap prioritisation, and product team leadership. Many engagements combine fractional CTO and CPO coverage under one consultant, which is particularly useful for early-stage companies where product and technology decisions are inseparable.
Most engagements begin within two weeks of the first call. The sequence: 30-minute discovery call, one-week assessment, scope and pricing agreement, then engagement start. For urgent interim CTO coverage, we have started engagements inside seven days.
Our deepest experience is in financial services, fintech, insurance, software and SaaS, healthcare, logistics, and regulated e-commerce. We do not take on fractional CTO engagements in industries where we cannot bring meaningful domain context from day one.