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Technical strategy
Turning business goals and fundraising milestones into an engineering roadmap with honest estimates and explicit trade-offs.
Fractional executive
Fractional CTO and technical advisory for startups
Senior technical leadership for part of the week — strategy, architecture and hiring decisions made with you, without a full-time executive salary.
Role profile
What we look for in a Fractional CTO / Technical Advisor
Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start. These are the skills that interview should test.
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Investor due diligence
Preparing architecture diagrams, security policies and a candid account of technical debt before investors ask for them.
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Hiring and team design
Writing role descriptions, designing interview loops and sitting in on your foundational engineering hires.
Typical work
What a Fractional CTO / Technical Advisor typically works on
Examples of the scope this role is hired for. Your statement of work sets the actual deliverables and how they are accepted.
- 01A 12-month engineering roadmap, with the reasoning behind each technology choice
- 02Data-room preparation for technical due diligence
- 03Reviews of major vendor contracts such as AWS, Datadog or Snowflake
- 04A SOC 2 readiness roadmap and first security policies
Stack and tools
What this role works with day to day. Tell us your stack and we’ll say plainly which parts we can staff.
- Technology strategy
- Due diligence
- Architecture planning
- SOC 2 readiness
- Engineering hiring
Technology guides
Related service
IT consulting servicesA written, evidence-backed answer to the technical decision you can't afford to get wrong.
How hiring works
Four steps, agreed in writing before anyone starts
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Tell us the role
The stack, the seniority you need, the hours you want covered, and any certifications the work requires. We reply within one business day.
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We propose engineers
A written proposal sets out who we'd put forward, their seniority and experience, the scope, and the terms. If we can't staff the role well, we say so.
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You interview every engineer
Nobody starts on your codebase until you've interviewed them and agreed. Use the skills on the role page as your interview checklist.
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Working arrangements go in the SOW
Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.
QuantmHill provides development teams from India for Indian startups and SMEs. Role profiles describe project capabilities; availability is confirmed for your engagement. Our team works on India Standard Time. Project working hours, availability and handoff responsibilities are agreed before kickoff.
Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign. There are no recruiting fees.
FAQ
Questions about hiring a Fractional CTO / Technical Advisor
Answered the way we would on a call. If yours isn’t here, send it — we reply within one business day.
That's agreed in the statement of work — from a few hours a week for advisory to two or three days for hands-on leadership — and it can change as you grow. The time goes on decisions and reviews rather than day-to-day coding.
When you need senior technical judgement — architecture, hiring, investor questions — before the workload or budget justifies a full-time executive. A good fractional CTO also helps you hire their full-time successor.
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Add a Fractional CTO / Technical Advisor to your team
Tell us the stack, the seniority you need and the hours you want covered. We reply within one business day, and you interview every engineer before they start.