Fractional CTO · London
Fractional CTO
in London
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
We embed as fractional CTO for founders in London 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 London who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why fractional cto is hard in London
London founders have access to deep fintech and gov-tech talent but the hiring cycle is brutal. Senior offers in the City clear £100K base plus equity that competes with Revolut and Wise. Local dev shops mostly serve enterprise — slow procurement, multi-quarter contracts, agency-of-record billing.
Different model: one senior engineer ships your build in two weeks, four-to-five-hour overlap with our working hours, billed in USD. Open Banking via TrueLayer or GoCardless for fintech. Next.js + NestJS + Postgres for SaaS. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.
Hiring one senior leader here is a ~$200K 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 · London
London is the third-largest tech hub on earth — after the Bay Area and Beijing.
Time zone
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GMT
GMT/BST. We overlap with your morning, you ship by your evening. Async workflow built for the gap.
Sectors in London
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 London pick us for this
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We've been the technical owner on 50+ products — the failure modes are pattern-recognized, not theorized
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Hands-on when you need it: not just a strategy deck, the senior engineer still ships code
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No equity ask, no notice-period games — month-to-month
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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 London.
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More on fractional cto from our blog
Same engagement model, written up long-form — pricing tiers, workflows, anti-patterns.
FAQ
Common questions about fractional cto
in London
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30-minute call → flat-price quote in 24 hours → first deploy inside two weeks.