An essential role in your company.

You've found product-market fit – or you're close. The business is moving. But the technical leadership isn't keeping pace. Architecture decisions are getting deferred. The engineering team needs direction. The tech stack is accumulating debt faster than features. And hiring a full-time CTO is a six-to-twelve month process you don't have time for right now.

That's exactly the gap our CTO as a Service fills.

CTO as a Service enables your growth.

The CTO role is one of the most consequential hires a growing tech company makes – and one of the hardest to get right. Too early and you're paying senior leadership costs before the organization needs them. Too late and you're paying for the architectural decisions made in the absence of proper technical leadership.

CTO as a Service gives you the expertise without the hiring timeline. We embed as your interim CTO – taking ownership of the technology roadmap, making architecture decisions, leading your engineering team, and representing the technical perspective in leadership conversations. We work with the same level of accountability as a full-time hire, without the full-time commitment on your side.

What this looks like in practice:
We assess your current technical state honestly – identifying what's working, what's accumulating risk, and what needs to change for your product to scale. We set the technical direction and make the decisions that have been waiting for someone with the authority and expertise to make them. We provide hands-on development support where needed, handle technical consulting for strategic decisions, and take ownership of ongoing technical operations.

And when the time is right, we help you find and transition to a permanent CTO – so the knowledge and momentum we've built doesn't leave with us.

Based in Vienna, supporting startups and scale-ups across Europe.