Before a first raise, investors ask technical questions most founders haven't had time to answer: who owns the architecture, how the product is deployed, what breaks at ten times the users, and who the first engineers are. A part-time CTO sets those foundations, gets the answers ready, and helps hire the people who will carry the product after the round.
Best for: solo founders and pre-seed / seed startups · teams building trading or market-data systems · B2B AI vendors rolling out to enterprise sales teams.
Selected cases from these experts’ profiles.
A data startup had a pitch deck and no product. One of the CTOs in our network built the team and the technical foundation from scratch: a data platform that collects and structures information about crypto projects for other data companies, on Go, Python, AWS and LLM APIs. Within about six months the company raised at a multi-million valuation.
Early-stage teams in an accelerator had weeks to validate ideas, build MVPs and convince investors. One of the CTOs in our network advised more than ten of them on technical strategy and MVP scope, helped founders through investors' technical due diligence and helped recruit their first engineers.
A founder is about to raise and expects technical questions. The expert reviews architecture, code ownership, cloud setup, security basics and team plan, the way an investor's technical advisor would.
A short readiness memo with gaps to close before the round and answers the founder can give.
A founding team had an idea and needed a product, a technical foundation and an engineering team to raise money. As founding technical lead, our expert set up all three from scratch, and the company reached investment readiness.
New products often leave deployment until the end and then struggle to launch. On new projects, one of our experts sets up the production environment first and has teams ship daily, often several times a day: infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), automated tests up to end-to-end, linters, type checkers and security scanners, fully automated zero-downtime pipelines kept fast, and production monitoring. Clients can demo to investors at any time and launch as soon as the essentials are in.
— Invental · software studio · Montevideo, UY
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A link or short description of the code or system, what you want checked, your stack, and when you need the answer. No repository access is needed until scope is agreed.