The gap between where you are and where you need to be
Without a CTO, you're…
- Making platform bets based on vendor demos, not architecture analysis
- Overspending on agencies with no one holding them accountable
- Accumulating tech debt nobody sees until it’s too late
- Reacting to fires instead of building a strategy
- Stuck between what sales teams promise and what engineering can deliver
With a Fractional CTO…
- Architecture decisions grounded in reality, not hype
- Long-term platform strategy that evolves with your business
- Day-to-day technical guidance that unblocks your team
- Safe experimentation with new technology
- One person accountable for your entire technical direction
What your Fractional CTO does
Platform Architecture & Roadmapping
Define your target architecture and build a phased roadmap to get there.
Vendor Evaluation & Selection
Unbiased assessment of platforms, tools, and service providers before you commit.
Team Mentoring & Code Review
Level up your development team with architecture guidance and code quality standards.
Performance & Scalability Planning
Ensure your platform handles growth — from Black Friday traffic to international expansion.
Integration Strategy
Design clean, maintainable integrations between your commerce platform, ERP, OMS, and third-party services.
Build vs. Buy Decisions
Data-driven recommendations on when to build custom solutions vs. adopting existing tools.
How it works
Discovery call
Free 30-minute conversation to understand your business, platform, and challenges.
We match you with a senior architect
Based on your platform and industry, we assign the right technical leader.
Weekly cadence: strategy + unblocking
Regular touchpoints to drive architecture decisions and remove technical blockers.
Monthly architecture review
Comprehensive review of progress, roadmap updates, and strategic recommendations.
Starts at 20 hours/month. Scale as your needs evolve.
Who this is for
DTC brands doing $5M–$50M
Growing fast but without a senior technical leader to guide platform decisions.
Companies between CTOs
Your CTO left and you need architecture leadership while you search for a permanent hire.
Teams with devs but no direction
You have developers, but no one setting architecture standards or technical strategy.
Brands facing a major platform decision
About to replatform, adopt headless, or make a significant technology investment.
YOUR FRACTIONAL CTO
10+ years of commerce architecture
Your Fractional CTO has led architecture across SFCC, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, and composable stacks. They’ve guided migrations, built teams, and scaled platforms managing hundreds of millions in GMV.
“Having a fractional CTO gave us the confidence to make the right platform decisions. We avoided what would have been a $200K mistake.”
— E-commerce Director
200+
projects delivered
500M+
GMV managed
9+
years experience
Frequently asked questions
Consultants give you a report and leave. Your Fractional CTO is embedded in your team — attending standups, reviewing code, making real-time architecture decisions. It’s ongoing leadership, not a one-off engagement.
We start at 20 hours/month, which covers weekly strategy sessions, architecture reviews, and ad-hoc guidance. Most clients scale to 40–60 hours as the engagement matures.
No. We lead your existing team. Your Fractional CTO sets standards, reviews architecture, mentors developers, and makes sure your team is building the right things the right way.
We can combine Fractional CTO with our retainer development packages for a complete solution — strategy and execution from a single partner.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Shopify & Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, commercetools, and Alokai. We also have deep experience with headless/composable architectures and MACH-based stacks.