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Hire a Fractional CTO
A fractional CTO gives you senior technical leadership without the cost of a full-time executive hire. Praxis provides fractional CTO services to startups and early-stage companies that need architectural direction, technology decisions, and technical hiring guidance — on a part-time engagement that scales with your needs.
Technical leadership without the full-time cost
A CTO-level hire is expensive and hard to get right at early stage. A fractional CTO gives you the strategic technical guidance you need — architecture decisions, stack choices, vendor evaluations, and AI strategy — at a fraction of the cost and with no lock-in.
Bridging technical and business
Translating technical decisions into business terms for investors and stakeholders. Sitting in leadership meetings, contributing to product roadmap decisions, and ensuring the technology choices serve the business — not just the engineering team.
Hiring and team building
Defining technical roles, reviewing candidates, running technical interviews, and setting the engineering standards that your first technical hires will work within. Building the team foundation correctly matters more than most founders realise.
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How many hours per week does a fractional CTO engagement involve?
Typically 8-20 hours per week depending on stage and need. The engagement is scoped upfront and can scale up or down as your requirements change.
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Can a fractional CTO also write code?
Yes. Praxis can combine fractional CTO responsibilities with hands-on engineering work — strategic leadership and technical execution from the same person.
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We already have engineers. Do we still need a fractional CTO?
Often yes. Having engineers is different from having architectural leadership. A fractional CTO sets the technical direction, makes the hard technology decisions, and ensures the team builds in the right direction.
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