Strategic Tech Leadership. No Equity Required.
Borrow a veteran CTO's experience to organize your roadmap, recruit your team, and architect for scale. Pay for outcomes, not a full-time salary.
Most startups make one of two mistakes:
1. Hiring a CTO too early — Committing to a high executive salary and equity for a role your business doesn't require full-time yet.
2. Hiring a CTO too late — Drowning in technical debt because no one was designing the architecture.
Your business needs CTO Strategy, but probably doesn't need (yet) a CTO Position. USEO fills this gap. We give you the C-level "brain" at a fraction of the cost, preventing expensive architectural mistakes early on.
How we help
Audit & due diligence
For Investors and Founders. We verify code quality, security, and scalability before an investment round or acquisition. Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Project rescue (crisis management)
When deployments are scary and the team is stuck. We come in, diagnose blockers, and implement a recovery plan (Rescue Sprint).
Hiring & culture building
We help you hire your first key engineers, verify their technical skills, and build onboarding processes that actually work.
Tech stack selection
No-Code or Custom? Monolith or Microservices? We make decisions based on business goals, not technology "hype".
Full-Time CTO vs. Fractional CTO
- Annual cost High Fixed Salary + Equity + Benefits
- Availability Long recruitment & onboarding cycle
- Perspective Single company perspective
- Risk Long-term commitment
- Annual cost Flexible Monthly Retainer
- Availability Immediate Start (Day 1 impact)
- Perspective Cross-industry best practices
- Risk Flexible - Scale up/down as needed
From first call to strategic impact
Discovery call
Free 30-min call to understand your challenges and goals.
Diagnostic sprint
We audit your current tech landscape and identify quick wins.
Strategic roadmap
You get a prioritized action plan with clear milestones.
Ongoing partnership
Monthly retainer for continuous strategic guidance.
Stop guessing on technology decisions.
Book a free 30-minute strategic consultation. This isn't a sales call. It's an initial diagnosis of your challenges.
Book Free ConsultationNeed strategic tech leadership?
Let's discuss how a Fractional CTO can help your business make better technology decisions. We respond within 24 hours.
