Fractional CTO
Senior engineering leadership, part-time. Technical direction, hiring and delivery oversight for founders and teams that need a CTO’s judgement without a full-time appointment.
When you’d reach for this
Plenty of companies need senior technical judgement before they need - or can justify - a full-time CTO. A fractional CTO gives you that judgement: someone to own technical direction, steady delivery and make the calls that are expensive to get wrong.
A founder without a technical lead
You are making technical decisions - architecture, vendors, hiring - without a senior engineer to own them.
Between CTOs
A leadership gap needs covering while you run a permanent search, without delivery drifting.
Investor or board scrutiny
You need credible technical leadership in the room for due diligence, fundraising or a board.
What you get
Technical direction
Architecture, technology choices and the technical roadmap, owned by someone who has done it.
Hiring and team building
Defining the team you need and bringing the right people in, drawing on the full Pype bench.
Delivery oversight
Steadying how the team ships - process, standards and the calls that keep delivery on track.
A safe pair of hands
Senior judgement in the room for the board, investors and the decisions that are costly to reverse.
We’ve been on your side of the table.
Pype was born inside Realm Digital, a 25-year-old engineering consultancy. We’ve owned the deadlines and hired the engineers ourselves - so we know what good looks like, and we vet for it.
That’s the difference between a CV-matching service and a technical partner.
Common questions
Fractional or interim? +
Both. Fractional is ongoing and part-time; interim is full-time for a fixed period, usually to cover a gap. [VALUE TBC: confirm typical days per week and engagement lengths offered.]
How is a fractional CTO priced? +
[VALUE TBC: confirm pricing model - monthly retainer, day rate, or engagement-based.]
Does the fractional CTO also build the team? +
Yes. A large part of the value is getting the right engineers in - and the fractional CTO can draw directly on Pype’s vetted bench to do it.
Ready to open the pipe?
Tell us what you’re building and we’ll line up the right talent.