Hire a part-time technical executive to give your business all the benefits of a CTO—but at a fraction of the cost.
A Fractional CTO will improve your system’s architecture, strengthen your team, and free you from the technical weeds, letting you focus on high-level strategy.
Fractional CTOs are the perfect compromise for a company that doesn’t yet have the need—or the budget—to hire a full-time CTO. They manage software teams, technical dependencies, and project priorities. They’ll keep your project from stalling, eliminate dangerous knowledge silos, and find where any technical bodies are buried.
- Gain a strategic partner that aligns your tech roadmap with business goals
- Make informed executive decisions on critical technical issues
- Streamline developer management with a single point of contact
- Hire the right people faster through expert screening
- Mentor your team for ongoing professional growth
- Adopt best practices to increase productivity and reduce tech debt
Our Fractional CTOs under NDAs have helped clients reduce waste while increasing recurring revenue and savings. Contact us to see how this is a role that more than pays for itself.
The Smyth Group’s people are far beyond the average team. When we have a difficult problem, we bring them on board because they have high-quality resources. The products we’ve created with them have increased our top-line revenue or lowered our costs, making us more profitable. It’s a successful relationship.
— Alan Gordon, CIO, Cisive
We only hire the best software experts.
We only hire the best software experts.
We’re a software agency—not a staffing agency.
Because our entire focus is on delivering quality software, we understand industry standards, technical skill sets, and overall project demands better than any general staffing agency. This means that our Fractional CTOs have already been vetted by our own software experts and you can be confident that their skills and abilities meet our high standards. We don’t just hire anyone who says they can code.
Soft skills are a priority.
In addition to technical skills, we carefully evaluate soft skills, ensuring that our Fractional CTOs can lead, mentor, and communicate as well as they can develop software. Their superpower? Communicating easily with both software developers and CEOs.
We’re a team.
Since our Fractional CTOs are a part of our internal team at TSG, we have firsthand experience with their ability to manage other software developers and engineers. Our team also receives regular training to continue honing their leadership skills.
No long-term contracts.
Unlike general staffing agencies where you are usually committed to your Fractional CTO for a long-term engagement, our contracts do not lock you in for an extended time. If it doesn’t work out for any reason, you’re free to request another Fractional CTO or exit the relationship entirely.
Consult
Meet with our team and tell us about your main concerns. We’ll help you figure out how a Fractional CTO can fit within your business.
Strategize
A Fractional CTO will dive into understanding your business, team, code base, users, and existing strategy (if applicable). They will help align your software strategy with your long-term business goals.
Design
Our Fractional CTOs not only work well with designers themselves, but they educate and coach other developers on how to effectively work with them as well.
Develop & Implement
Your Fractional CTO will conduct technical code reviews, educate the developers to improve their skills, set schedules and prioritize features, and lead your technical team in achieving the set goals.
