Productized
Fractional CTO Retainer
Seasoned technical leadership without the $300k headcount.
A seasoned engineer-leader in your weekly leadership meeting, your architecture reviews, your hiring loop, and your investor calls. Two-day-a-week commitment. We help you make the bets, write the specs, set the bar, ship the right thing, and avoid the expensive wrong things. Cancel any month.
from $4,800/mo
Monthly · cancel any time· Monthly retainer
What's included
- 2 days/week (typical 16 hrs across the week, flexible)
- Weekly leadership meeting attendance
- Monthly architecture review with written ADR (architecture decision record)
- Hiring rubric + interview design + final-round attendance
- Quarterly roadmap planning + retro
- Investor / board technical talking points (when needed)
- Slack co-presence during business hours
FAQ
- How is this different from an advisor?
- Advisors give you 1 hour a month and equity. We give you 2 days a week, written ADRs, and skin in the game on the actual decisions.
- Can we hire you full-time later?
- Possible but unlikely — Sage Ideas is a studio. The retainer often bridges to a full-time hire we help you recruit.