Fractional CTO · Denver
Fractional CTO
in Denver
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
We embed as fractional CTO for founders in Denver who need senior technical leadership but aren't ready for a full-time hire. Architecture decisions, hiring rubrics, code review for your existing team, and hands-on execution when something needs to ship today.
Engagement shape
From
$4,000
Flat price, quoted after 30-min call
Timeline
Monthly engagement
First production deploy
1
Senior engineer, named
Day 1
Code in your GitHub
$0
Retainer, equity, lock-in
How this works
One AI-native engineer.
The output of a team.
One senior engineer plus AI agents now ships fractional cto that used to need a four-person team. Same code quality, half the cost, three-week timelines instead of three months. Built for pre-seed to Series A founders in Denver who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why fractional cto is hard in Denver
Denver and Boulder pulled record climate-tech and outdoor-product funding in 2025. The hiring market followed. 55+ day cycles. $260K all-in for a senior engineer who can wire PostGIS and Mapbox at the same time as React and TypeScript.
One named senior engineer ships your build in two weeks, Mountain Time, overlap with both coasts and your Foundry Group partner. Geospatial stack ready when the product needs it. Flat-price quote in 24 hours after a discovery call. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away clean at the end.
Hiring one senior leader here is a ~$260K year-one outlay and a 60–90 day search. Our fractional cto engagement starts at $4,000 with a first deploy in Monthly engagement.
Did you know · Denver
Denver added more tech workers per capita than any other US metro in the last decade.
Time zone
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Mountain Time. We overlap with you, your team in LoDo, and your investors at Foundry and Techstars.
Sectors in Denver
Stack we use
What you actually get
Concrete deliverables.
Live in Monthly engagement.
No discovery phase that bills for itself. No Figma-only delivery. Every item below is something you can open, click, and ship to a user.
Weekly 1:1 with founder, monthly board-style technical update
Architecture decisions documented as RFCs, not as Slack threads that disappear
Hiring scorecards, take-home rubrics, final-round technical interviews run by us
Code review on your team's PRs — fewer regressions, faster reviewer cycle
Optional hands-on weeks when a critical build is behind
Why us
Why founders in Denver pick us for this
01
We've been the technical owner on 50+ products — the failure modes are pattern-recognized, not theorized
02
Hands-on when you need it: not just a strategy deck, the senior engineer still ships code
03
No equity ask, no notice-period games — month-to-month
04
Cheaper than the recruiter fee on a single bad CTO hire
Fractional CTO we've shipped
Founders we shipped fractional cto with
Real founders, real product, real testimonials. The kind of fractional cto work we'd do for you in Denver.
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FAQ
Common questions about fractional cto
in Denver
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30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks.