Technical Strategy & Fractional CTO
CTO-level judgment on architecture, hiring, and technology decisions — so you avoid costly mistakes and move faster.
"You need a CTO's judgment without a CTO's salary."
The wrong cloud choice or AI platform locks you in for years. The wrong hire misaligns your technical roadmap. We provide CTO-level judgment on architecture, hiring, and technology decisions — so you avoid costly mistakes and move faster with less second-guessing.
What this looks like:
- Technology roadmap aligned with business and fundraising milestones
- Architecture reviews and system design
- AI strategy — separating genuine use cases from vendor hype
- Build-vs-buy decision frameworks
- Vendor evaluation and selection (cloud, data, AI, dev tools)
- Technical due diligence for M&A, investment, and partnerships
- Engineering team mentoring, hiring support, and process design
- Code quality audits and technical debt prioritization
Why This Matters
Clean energy companies at the growth stage face a specific technical leadership gap. You’re too large to wing it on architecture decisions, but too early (or too capital-constrained) to justify a $300K+ full-time CTO hire.
The consequences of that gap compound quickly:
- You pick a cloud vendor without understanding the lock-in implications, and three years later you’re paying 2x what you should.
- You build a custom system when an off-the-shelf tool would have worked, burning six months of engineering time.
- You hire three junior developers when you needed one senior engineer, and now you have a codebase no one can maintain.
- Every AI vendor tells you their product will “transform your operations,” and you can’t tell which ones are real.
These aren’t hypothetical — they’re the exact situations we walk into when companies bring us in after the fact.
What We Provide
We sit in on your strategy meetings and make the big calls alongside your leadership team:
- Technology roadmaps that align with your business milestones, fundraising timeline, and regulatory calendar — not a generic “modernization plan” but a sequenced strategy that tells you exactly what to build, buy, or skip at each stage.
- Architecture reviews that evaluate your current systems, identify risks, and recommend specific improvements with clear cost-benefit analysis.
- AI strategy that separates genuine use cases from vendor hype. We’ll tell you which AI applications will actually save you money in your specific context — and which ones are a distraction.
- Build-vs-buy decisions based on your actual requirements, team size, and timeline — not ideology. Sometimes Salesforce is the right call. Sometimes you need a custom system. We know the difference.
- Technical due diligence for M&A, investment rounds, and partnerships — evaluating codebases, architectures, and team capabilities with the depth that comes from having built these systems ourselves.
- Hiring support that goes beyond reviewing resumes. We define the roles you actually need, structure the interview process, and evaluate candidates on the technical dimensions that matter for clean energy software.
Who This Is For
- Growth-stage clean energy companies that need senior technical leadership but aren’t ready for a full-time executive hire
- Founders and CEOs who are making technology decisions without a technical co-founder or CTO
- Companies preparing for fundraising, M&A, or major technology decisions that need an experienced technical perspective at the table