A CTO who sits in the room where it is decided
Technical leadership without the full-time hire.
We take the CTO role in companies that need the judgement without the salary. Roadmap, architecture decisions, hiring, and managing whoever is building. A few days a month, in your leadership team. Based in Vienna, working with clients across Europe.
CTO as a Service in Vienna.
There is an awkward stage where a company has real technical decisions to make and no one senior enough to make them. Too much at stake for the founder to keep guessing, too early for a full-time CTO at a full-time salary. That gap is what this is for.
The work is the ordinary work of the role. Setting the technical direction and saying no to the things that do not serve it. Deciding architecture before it decides itself. Hiring developers and being able to tell in an interview whether someone is good. Managing agencies and freelancers, which mostly means knowing when an estimate is nonsense. Translating between the technical side and the board, in both directions.
Because we build software as well, the advice comes from people who will still be there when it is implemented. That tends to make it more conservative and more specific than advice from someone who never has to live with it.
If you only need a one-off read on a decision, technical consulting is the smaller version of this. If your team needs delivery capacity too, we build as well.
What you get with Dotbite as your CTO
- A technical direction. Set deliberately, and defended when it needs defending.
- Architecture decided on purpose. Before the codebase decides for you.
- Hiring you can trust. We can tell in an interview whether someone is good.
- Vendors managed. We know when an estimate is nonsense.
- Translation both ways. Between the engineering side and the board.
- Delivery capacity too. When the plan needs hands as well as a plan.
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Our work in this field
epunkt
We partnered with epunkt to build a modern job and client platform on a stable technical foundation, fully integrated with Salesforce as the single source of truth.
Fixmetall
Your small-scale steel or metal is one click away. Discover over 10,000 products and have them precisely delivered straight to your home.
Zurich - LiLi
The LiLi application is a fast application to classify, index and validate documents across different input channels.
Digitale Tennisschule
Manage training sessions, coaches, players, courts and your tennis school as a whole. From training planning to billing with just a few clicks.
LEAD Horizon - Alles Gurgelt!
LEAD Horizon wanted to bring highly intuitive, safe and fast PCR testing into people’s homes. We developed the Web App that made “Alles Gurgelt” possible.
whoranks
In a world where LinkedIn has become a powerhouse for networking, branding, and thought leadership, understanding your influence and engagement on the platform is crucial.
Vengolino - Vienna Red Cross
Tasty, healthy & personal, "Vengolino" for short. The food ordering app from the Vienna Red Cross.
timebite
timebite is a crowd-based learning platform where students share their learning tips for exams and reflect on their learning behavior through individual statistics.
Quinn - TU Vienna
Quinn is a native ECTS evaluation app that we developed together with the Vienna University of Technology to improve ECTS equity and studyability.
Our clients
Dotbite's team truly understood our challenges and expertly transformed them into a seamless, user-friendly platform. Their expertise in product development was the what we were looking for. Our go-to-partner!
Eldin Selimovic - Founder, qondition
Thanks to Dotbite we got a high performing product ready to scale. The cooperation went perfect and easy on the go, with valuable feedback from all sides. There inputs definitely helped us immensely and I am really happy to have them as a strategic partner. Great bunch of people.
Leon Herscovici - Co-Founder, Matara
Technologies we use
Who is Dotbite?
Dotbite is a team of passionate software engineers, creative designers, digital natives, innovative thinkers, and inspiring product owners who thrive in the digital world. We specialize in scalable solutions for large amounts of data, fast infrastructure, and a user experience made for humans.
Our approach
Together with the customer, we take a holistic look at the project, sift through rough edges, find hidden potential and possible obstacles. The customer’s idea is consistently pursued from the initial concept to beyond the market launch.
Targeted prototypes and conclusive MVPs ensure that the idea is on the right track. Our agility through Scrum allows us to implement changes quickly. Short communication channels and our dedicated teams also ensure that there is always a team member available who is intimately familiar with the subject matter.
Ready to connect the dots?
Hi, I’m Emir, CEO and Co-Founder of Dotbite.
You have an interesting idea for a digital project and are looking for a sparring partner pushing the challenge through with you?
You’ve come to the right place.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does a CTO as a Service actually do?
The ordinary work of the role. At Dotbite that means setting technical direction, deciding architecture before the codebase decides it for you, hiring developers, managing suppliers and translating between engineering and the board. A few days a month, inside your leadership team.
What does it cost?
Far less than a full-time hire, because you pay for the days you need. The arrangement runs as a framework agreement with an agreed monthly scope, so it stays predictable and can grow or shrink as your situation changes.
How much time per month is realistic?
Most engagements sit between two and six days a month. Less than that rarely gives enough continuity to make real decisions, more usually means the company is ready to hire someone permanently.
When is this better than hiring a CTO?
When you have real technical decisions to make and cannot yet justify a full-time salary for them. It also works while you search, because the same person can help you interview candidates and judge whether someone is actually good.
What happens when we hire our own CTO?
We hand over and step back, which is a normal end to this kind of engagement. Often we help find and assess the candidate, then brief them properly, so the transition keeps the context instead of losing it.