Experience on the bench, before you can afford the seat.
Seasoned operators for companies in transition — fractional CPTO, executive engagement, equity advisory. Not advisors who hand you a plan. Operators who roll up their sleeves and build it with you.
Advice is not the scarce thing.
Every fractional CTO you talk to will diagnose the problem correctly. Diagnosis is rarely where a company gets stuck. The options a founder actually has each leave the building undone.
Most common, and most expensive. The CEO becomes the de-facto CPTO, and neither job gets done.
A four-to-six-month search, high comp, and a permanent seat placed at a moment that is still moving.
Strong on judgment — but it stops at advice. Nobody stays to build it.
You get a clear recommendation. Turning it into something built stays on your plate.
The scarce thing is someone who makes the call, owns the consequence, and builds it with you.
Three shapes. Always an operator who builds.
The engagement takes the shape the moment calls for. What doesn't change is that the operator builds with you, not just around you.
Fractional executive
The company can fund the seat, but not a full-time hire.
Equity-only advisory
Pre-capital or capital-constrained, but the opportunity is real.
Blended
The most common shape, by far.
Most advisors advise. We build it with you.
Fractional help sells hours and a point of view — the plan stays yours to execute. Our operators make the call, then roll up their sleeves and build it. That's the difference between advice and an outcome.
Operators who have run companies, exposed to the outcome.
The person we place has run the company before — carried the P&L, lived the consequence of the call. Skin in the game, not a résumé — which is what makes the judgment worth trusting before the work proves it.
Two ways onto the bench.
Tell us where the company is, and we'll tell you which shape fits. Or — if you've run companies and want to be in the chair again — get on the bench.