Fractional CTO for vibe coders, founders & agencies

Your CTO.
Without the equity.

You vibe-coded your MVP. Now you need someone who can make it production-grade, vet your dev team, and wire up the systems that actually make money. We advise and we build.

Published pricingYou own all the codeCancel anytime
Saved a founder $43K on one audit•Vibe code to production in 12 days•4hrs/day recovered per person•Dev costs cut by 30%•Pricing starts at $49•You keep all the code•No lock-in, ever•We clean up your Cursor code•Saved a founder $43K on one audit•Vibe code to production in 12 days•4hrs/day recovered per person•Dev costs cut by 30%•Pricing starts at $49•You keep all the code•No lock-in, ever•We clean up your Cursor code•

You're signing $50K checks
without technical backup.

You know your market. You know your customers. But you can't tell good code from bad code, and one wrong call now costs 10x to undo six months later.

$75Kquote you can't judge

A dev agency sent you a proposal. Is it fair? Inflated? Missing half the scope? You genuinely can't tell.

1vibe-coded app stuck on localhost

Cursor got you 80% there. But auth, payments, hosting, monitoring, CI/CD... that last 20% is a different game entirely.

$300K/year CTO you don't need full-time

You need someone who gets code, can manage devs, and can make architecture calls. Just not 40 hours a week.

Results

No logos. Just receipts.

$0K

saved on a single quote audit

0

days from prototype to production

0hrs

recovered per person per day

Quote Audit

Caught $43K in overcharges on a marketplace build

First-time founder got an $85K quote. We found $35K in stuff they didn't need and $8K in padded estimates. Got it down to $42K with a better stack.

Vibe Code Cleanup

Cursor-built SaaS went live with paying users in 12 days

Founder had a vibe-coded prototype that worked on their laptop. We cleaned up the code, added auth, payments, database, CI/CD, and deployed it. Real product, real customers.

Agency Transformation

Marketing agency now sells tech services at 40% margin

25-person agency had no way to judge their freelance devs. We set up review processes, vetted a dev pool, built reusable templates. Dev costs dropped 30%.

Automation

15-person team got 4 hours back per person, per day

E-commerce brand doing manual data entry across Shopify, inventory, and accounting. We connected everything. Orders flow automatically. Errors went from 3% to basically zero.

We ship our own stuff too

TallyKaroInvoice & billing tool for Indian businessesSocialSlideTurn content into carousels in secondsZeroCrossLMSLightweight learning management system

How it works

Simple. Fast. Yours.

01

Send us the mess

A dev quote, a broken repo, a napkin idea. Loom it, type it, voice-note it. No decks needed.

02

Fixed price in 48hrs

Not a range. Not 'it depends.' A number, a scope, a timeline. Take it or leave it.

03

We ship, you watch

Loom updates, Slack threads. You see progress daily. Calls only when they actually move the needle.

04

You own it all

Code, accounts, domains, infra. Full transfer. Fire us tomorrow and nothing breaks.

What we do

We'll tell you your spec is wrong. Then we'll fix it.

Most CTOs just advise. Most dev shops just execute. We do both — and we'll push back before we build.

Stop overpaying for bad code.

Fractional CTO

You shouldn't need a $300K hire to know if your devs are doing a good job. We review proposals, vet developers, guide architecture, and make sure nobody's ripping you off.

  • Dev quote & proposal audits
  • Tech stack & architecture calls
  • Developer and vendor vetting
  • Ongoing strategic backup

Your vibe code, production-ready.

Vibe Code Cleanup

Cursor, Bolt, or Claude got you to a working prototype. But it's got no tests, no auth, hardcoded secrets, and zero deployment story. We clean it up, harden it, and ship it. Usually 2 weeks.

  • Codebase audit & security review
  • Auth, payments, database setup
  • CI/CD & production deployment
  • Ongoing technical ops

Get 4 hours back. Every day.

Automation & GTM Engineering

Your team copies data between 5 tabs and calls it a workflow. We connect your tools, wire up your revenue systems, and build bots so people can do actual work.

  • Revenue & GTM automation (Clay, HubSpot)
  • WhatsApp & Telegram bots
  • Multi-system integrations
  • Custom dashboards & reporting

Pricing

Published prices. No "let's get on a call first."

Almost nobody in this space publishes pricing. We do, because you deserve to know what you're paying before talking to anyone.

Start here

Quote Audit

$49one-time

Send us any dev proposal. We tear it apart line by line. Red flags, padded estimates, missing scope, what it should actually cost. Back in 48 hours.

  • Line-by-line breakdown
  • Market rate comparison
  • Red flag identification
  • PDF report in 48hrs
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Advisory

$2-3K/month

Ongoing CTO-level thinking without the CTO-level salary. Architecture calls, dev management, vendor reviews. Your technical sounding board on speed dial.

  • 2 strategy calls/month
  • Unlimited async (Slack)
  • Quote & vendor reviews
  • Architecture guidance
Full partnership

Technical Partner

$5-8K/month

Everything in Advisory plus 80 hours/month of hands-on development. We're basically your tech team. Weekly syncs. You own every line of code.

  • Everything in Advisory
  • 80 hrs/month development
  • Weekly progress syncs
  • Full code ownership

Month-to-month. Cancel anytime. You own all the code.

Your next technical decision shouldn't be a guess.

$49 to know if your dev quote is fair. One call to know if your architecture will scale. Zero commitment to find out.

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