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CTO as a service
Experienced CTO leadership for SaaS teams without hiring full-time
Align your tech
Scale your team
Reduce risk
From problem to solution
Problems:
The team is growing but lacks direction
Technical debt / chaos
Founder is overloaded
No senior leadership
...
Solution:
CTO-as-a-Service as
Strategist
Coach
Decision maker
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Proven methodology. Real results.
From assessment to exit, we cover every technical aspect.
1
Assess
Architecture & Tech Debt
Review your stack, identify risks and scaling gaps
2
Align
Roadmap & Process
Ensure product and business goals work together
3
Mentor
Team & Hiring
Build strong, self-sufficient engineering teams
4
Exit
Handover
Leave you with an independent technical culture
Predictable delivery
Investor confidence
Clear priorities
Engineering culture
Our goal
“From day one, we work towards making ourselves unnecessary — by coaching your team, transferring knowledge, and building true independence.”
What does CTO as a Service cover?
We offer flexible technical leadership tailored to your needs, from interim leadership during transitions to long-term strategic guidance.
Interim CTO
When your company is between CTOs or entering a period of change, we take the helm. We keep teams focused, stabilise processes, and make sure your product remains on course. We often help recruit and onboard your next permanent leader.
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Fractional CTO
Part-time, long-term leadership. Ideal for startups and scale-ups that need strategy, alignment, and mentoring without a full-time CTO. We stay involved as long as we add value.
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Engineering Management
We don’t just advise, we can also lead your technical team hands on. Our CTOs often act as interim engineering managers, helping teams adopt better practices, clearer processes, and a culture that supports fast, sustainable delivery.
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CTO Coaching
We also coach founders, tech leads, and new CTOs through our CTO Coaching service. It’s a personal, behind-the-scenes engagement where we act as a sounding board for leadership decisions.
Learn moreWhy companies call us in
You don't call us when everything's fine. You call when clarity, leadership, or alignment are missing. Here are some of the most common reasons startups and scaleups bring us in, and how we help.
Happy clients
We've acted as interim and fractional CTO for dozens of SaaS companies at critical stages: from rebuilding after founder departures to scaling from Seed to Series B.
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After their technical co-founder departed unexpectedly, we stepped in with two staff engineers to build a quality-first MVP using Inertia.js, Vue, and Laravel. We established robust CI/CD pipelines, implemented comprehensive testing, and mentored the team through knowledge transfer.
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Interested? Let's chat!
We've been helping SaaS founders and teams for over 15 years. Whether you're between CTOs, scaling fast, or just need an experienced technical perspective, we're ready to help. Tell us about your product, your challenges, and what kind of leadership you need.
“The madewithlove engineers brought some more experience in our team of young talents. Their lead-by-example attitude helped us establishing the required best-practices to grow as a product company.”
Stijn Vannieuwenhuyse
Head of Engineering at Teamleader
Frequently asked questions
We've acted as interim and fractional CTO for dozens of SaaS companies at critical stages: from rebuilding after founder departures to scaling from Seed to Series B.
An interim CTO leads full-time during transitions, such as when your CTO leaves or during a critical growth phase. A fractional CTO works part-time (typically a few days per week) but provides long-term strategic leadership and stability. Both options give you experienced technical leadership tailored to your needs.
A fractional CTO provides part-time, senior technical leadership for your company. They set technology strategy, guide architectural decisions, mentor your team, align engineering with business goals, and provide the strategic oversight typically expected from a full-time CTO, but at a fraction of the cost and commitment.
Consider a fractional CTO when you need experienced technical leadership but aren't ready for a full-time hire, when your engineers are strong but need direction, when you're scaling and need strategic guidance, or when preparing for a funding round and need to demonstrate technical credibility.
Usually between 3 and 18 months, depending on your needs. Interim engagements during transitions tend to be shorter (3-6 months), while fractional CTO relationships often extend longer as we provide ongoing strategic guidance. We stay only as long as we add value.
Yes. Many of our engagements start with a technical audit to identify key risks before we embed. Our CTOs can also represent your technical capabilities to investors, join board meetings, and help you prepare for funding rounds with confidence.
We can act as a sparring partner, mentor, or coach for your existing CTO. Our CTO Coaching service pairs your technical leader with an experienced CTO who has faced similar challenges, helping them develop leadership skills and make better strategic decisions.
Yes. Our Software Engineering team can work alongside our CTOs to implement strategy quickly. We provide senior developers and staff engineers, not junior resources, who can execute on the technical roadmap while the CTO focuses on leadership and strategy.
Absolutely. We help define the CTO role based on your actual needs, support the recruitment process, evaluate candidates, and onboard your next hire to ensure a smooth transition. Many interim engagements naturally lead to helping you find a permanent replacement.
By clarity, stability, and progress. If your roadmap is clear, your team aligned, your delivery predictable, and your stakeholders confident, we've done our job. We focus on outcomes that persist after we leave.
Our CTOs oversee architecture and infrastructure, team structure and culture, product strategy and roadmap, risk management and technical debt, hiring and mentoring, and stakeholder communication. We adapt our focus to what your organisation needs most.
We begin with an honest conversation about your challenges, whether technical, organisational, or both. From there, we define a scope that matches your needs and embed our CTO to start making improvements right away. No lengthy procurement process required.
We're practitioners, not consultants. Our CTOs have built products, led teams, and solved messy problems themselves. They don't hide behind PowerPoint decks. Instead, they join your meetings, talk to your engineers, and roll up their sleeves when needed.