Fractional CTO · Tel Aviv

Fractional CTO
in Tel Aviv

Senior technical leadership without the $300K base.

We embed as fractional CTO for founders in Tel Aviv 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.

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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 Tel Aviv who need to ship before the next round closes.

The local read

Why fractional cto is hard in Tel Aviv

TLV's engineering market is one of the deepest in the world and one of the most expensive at seed stage. Senior offers competing with the cyber unicorns clear $230K all-in with equity that compounds fast. Most of the local agency options are extension-of-team staffing shops that bill weekly.

Different play: one senior engineer ships your build in two weeks, seven-hour overlap with US East working hours, billed in USD. eBPF and Rust for runtime cyber products. Kafka + ClickHouse for adtech pipelines. Next.js + Node for SaaS. Flat-price quote in 24 hours. Code in your GitHub from commit one.

Hiring one senior leader here is a ~$230K 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 · Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv has more startups per capita than any city on earth — roughly 1 startup per 290 residents.

Time zone

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IST

IST. We overlap with your morning, you ship by your evening. Async workflow built for the time gap.

Sectors in Tel Aviv

CybersecurityAI infrastructureFintechAdTech and traffic arbitrageB2B SaaS

Stack we use

ArchitectureHiringCode ReviewRoadmapInfrastructureAI Strategy

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.

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Weekly 1:1 with founder, monthly board-style technical update

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Architecture decisions documented as RFCs, not as Slack threads that disappear

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Hiring scorecards, take-home rubrics, final-round technical interviews run by us

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Code review on your team's PRs — fewer regressions, faster reviewer cycle

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Optional hands-on weeks when a critical build is behind

Why us

Why founders in Tel Aviv 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 Tel Aviv.

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Deeper reads

More on fractional cto from our blog

Same engagement model, written up long-form — pricing tiers, workflows, anti-patterns.

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How We Use Claude Code in Production: Workflows, Costs, Anti-Patterns

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2026-05-02·9 mins

Hire vs Engage: The 2026 Math With AI Agents

A senior engineer in 2026 costs more (year-1 outlay) and is harder to find (60–90 day pipelines). The decision math everyone uses for this is out of date.

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FAQ

Common questions about fractional cto
in Tel Aviv

How much of your time do we get?

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Plans typically range 10–30 hours/month depending on scope. We're not your only commitment, but we set a fixed window every week that's yours — same day, same hours.

Is the price really flat?

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Yes. After a 30-minute call we send a single number and a scope you can accept or reject. No hourly billing, no change-order games. If we underestimate, we eat it.

Can you hire engineers for us?

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Yes — full hiring loop: writing the JD, sourcing channels (we have a network), screening, technical take-home design, final-round interview. Most CTOs we've helped hire run their first sprint inside a month of starting.

Will you keep coding if we hire a full CTO later?

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Happy to. Many founders bring on a full-time CTO and keep us as senior IC for 2–3 months while they ramp. No ego — we'll happily report to whoever you hire.

Who owns the code?

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You do, from commit one. The repository is created in your GitHub org. Infrastructure is provisioned in your cloud account. We don't host your stack on ours and we don't lock you in.

More questions → /faq/partnership · /faq/team · /faq/scaling

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