Fractional CTO Services
Part-time technical leadership for growing companies. You get a CTO who still builds: architecture, AI systems doing real work, hiring and growing the team, and the judgment to decide what to build and what to buy.
What you get
- Technology strategy and roadmap planning
- Team hiring, mentoring, and performance management
- Architecture decisions and technical debt management
- Vendor selection and partner negotiations
- Board and investor communications
The scope
I will operate for you between Level 1 and Level 7 of the CTO Levels™ framework — what that means. That is the scope of the engagement. In my own businesses I work across all ten levels, and a full-time role is a different conversation. The fractional boundary is about time and presence.
If your company is growing from its first engineers toward a technology team of around a hundred, that is where I work best. I do not want a massive organization with a large operational budget and no building left to do. That is the work I do as a fractional AI CTO in Colorado: part-time leadership for companies building AI products, from day zero toward a hundred-person team.
What it costs, in context
For context, these are market benchmarks, not my rates: a full-time Denver CTO runs $280,000–$450,000 in total compensation, and fractional retainers run $5,000–$30,000 a month in 2026 benchmark roundups. I publish no rates: every engagement is scoped after a discovery call. See what AI consulting costs in Colorado for the published ranges.
Typical engagement: 1-2 days/week, ongoing relationship