Transparent Retainers & Audit Fees
Clear, predictable advisory structures designed for early-stage capital budgeting. We offer dedicated fractional retainers and fixed-fee diagnostic sprints.
Fractional CTO Retainer
Designed for funded founders requiring continuous senior technical counsel, architectural governance, and team leadership oversight.
- 20 dedicated advisory hours per month
- Weekly strategic architecture and release review
- Executive involvement in critical vendor & API negotiations
- Direct technical interviews for lead engineer candidates
- Emergency high-priority architectural escalation response
- Monthly board & investor technical reporting contribution
Architecture Diagnostic Audit
A rigorous diagnostic review of your application architecture, data access layers, and cloud infrastructure to eliminate critical technical debt.
- In-depth inspection of codebase topology and dependency graphs
- Database schema efficiency and query bottleneck profiling
- Cloud infrastructure cost containment analysis
- Comprehensive written diagnostic report with prioritized risks
- Executive presentation and engineering team workshop
- Actionable 90-day technical remediation roadmap
Investor Due Diligence Sprint
Pre-fundraising technical audit that identifies vulnerability exposure, IP compliance gaps, and architecture risks before venture investors review your assets.
- Open source license risk & compliance verification
- Security posture and data storage practices inspection
- Technical debt estimation and infrastructure budget projection
- Investor-facing Technical Data Room dossier preparation
- Founder Q&A prep session for institutional technical meetings
Customized & Project-Based Scopes
Have an urgent bespoke requirement, such as an interim 4-week on-site technical crisis intervention, specialized database cluster performance tuning, or enterprise vendor selection review? We formulate custom fixed-scope proposals tailored to your immediate milestones.