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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
Strategist
Coach
Decision maker
In this section
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: 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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Want strategic leadership without the full-time hire?
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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Ready to give your engineering team the direction it needs?
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.
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Looking to grow as a technical leader alongside an experienced CTO?
Why 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.
“I can’t see the path forward.”
“Our product is growing, but our team isn’t.”
“We had a good questions-and-answers discussion with Geoffrey willing to think out-of-the-box and advising us based on his practical knowledge of the subject.”
Nick Van den Abbeele, Development Manager at Combell
“My developers are not working together.”
“Investors are worried about technical risk.”
“When you bring in madewithlove at the right moment, they deliver incredible value. They've helped us build a mature, reliable team and a scalable product. I notice the impact of that every single day.”
Arnout Van de Meulebroucke, CTO at Phished
“Our CTO just left.”
“Our best engineers are drowning.”
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.
Fixform
Keeping buildings and spaces in good, safe and clean condition
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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We help our clients succeed
You will not see companies like Amazon among our past clients. You will, however, see the names that will soon rock the SaaS world because we helped them predict risks and avoid failure.
“We had a good questions-and-answers discussion with Geoffrey willing to think out-of-the-box and advising us based on his practical knowledge of the subject.”
Nick Van den Abbeele
Development Manager, Combell
“Madewithlove helped us to establish a structured development process that resulted in better code quality and stronger planning. We were missing a few important aspects of the overall DevOps process, and madewithlove could identify the missing parts quite quickly.”
Jan Dolinsky
CTO, Tangent Works
“Together with madewithlove, we created a high standard of quality which includes consistent, readable, well-documented, and tested code which we would like to keep for years.”
Sven Houtmeyers
Technical Lead (CTO), Publiq
FROM 150+ SAAS AUDITS
Fewer than half have structured onboarding
New engineers learn by osmosis.
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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.
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.
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.