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Leadership gap
The company needs a senior technical counterpart before making a full-time executive hire.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership, before a full-time CTO makes sense.
Direct support for architecture, roadmap, hiring, and delivery decisions that already affect the product and the runway.
Strategic when needed. Hands-on when the system demands it.
- Architecture
- Roadmap and hiring
- Hands-on support
When to call
When technical uncertainty starts driving business risk.
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Architecture under pressure
The product is moving, but system decisions are slowing delivery or becoming hard to trust.
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Team and roadmap drift
Hiring, prioritization, AI direction, or vendor quality needs credible technical judgment.
Scope
The decisions Stratos can own.
The role follows the product problem, not an advisory checklist.
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Architecture and roadmap
Set system direction, tradeoffs, milestones, and what the company should not build yet.
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Hiring and team direction
Shape roles, interview loops, engineering principles, and day-to-day technical priorities.
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Vendor and diligence review
Assess delivery quality, technical claims, system exposure, and operational readiness.
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Critical implementation
Step into hands-on work when the product needs more than advice.
Operating model
Lightweight access. Durable decisions.
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Regular working sessions
Focus on current architecture, roadmap, hiring, and product pressure.
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Async review
Fast feedback on proposals and technical decisions between sessions.
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Written context
Capture the decisions the team needs to execute without repeated meetings.
Fit
Direct operating leadership, not a symbolic advisor.
Best fit
- Senior technical leadership is needed now.
- Architecture, hiring, and product execution are connected.
- The founders are ready to make hard prioritization decisions.
Not a fit
- A passive advisory title is the goal.
- A large delivery team is required immediately.
- There is no access to product or business context.
Contact
Bring the technical decision that cannot stay vague.
Start with the roadmap, architecture, team, or product risk that needs a clear owner.