Fractional CTO · Seattle
Fractional CTO
in Seattle
Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.
We embed as fractional CTO for founders in Seattle 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 Seattle who need to ship before the next round closes.
The local read
Why fractional cto is hard in Seattle
Seattle founders have access to deep technical talent that's mostly busy. The candidates who do interview want AWS comp, or are leaving to start their own thing. Either way, your 90-day hiring cycle becomes 180.
Different math: one named senior engineer plus AI agents, Pacific Time, ships in two weeks. Flat-price quote after a 30-minute call. AWS-native by default — Bedrock, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 — same stack your team already runs. Code in your GitHub from commit one. Walk away clean at the end.
Hiring one senior leader here is a ~$310K 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 · Seattle
Amazon employs more people in Seattle than the next nine largest local employers combined.
Time zone
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Pacific Time, same window as your team, your customers in Bellevue, and the Big-Tech mafia your investors keep mentioning.
Sectors in Seattle
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 Seattle 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
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 Seattle.
Campaign Refinery
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Common questions about fractional cto
in Seattle
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