CTO AS A SERVICE
Senior technology leadership, on demand.
A fractional or interim CTO who sets your technology direction, reviews your architecture and structures your team : without the executive hire, and reversible at every step.
Why this service
Decisions first.
Headcount later.
The expensive technology mistakes are decisions : the wrong architecture, the wrong platform, the wrong team structure. They get made early, often before a company can justify a full-time CTO. This service puts a senior technologist in the room for exactly those decisions, at the rhythm your company actually needs.
Fractional CTO
Rhythm
A few days per month, ongoing
Duration
Continuous
For
Companies that need senior direction without a full-time executive
Interim CTO
Rhythm
Full-time
Duration
3 to 12 months
For
A leadership gap, a departure to bridge, a critical delivery to secure
Project-based
Rhythm
Scoped to the initiative
Duration
Defined deliverables
For
An architecture review, a technical due diligence, a modernization decision
Sound familiar?
The situations that bring companies to us.
“We’re building a product, and nobody senior owns the technical decisions.”
“Our CTO left, and we can’t afford six months of vacancy.”
“The board approved the budget. Now someone has to choose the architecture.”
“We’re acquiring a company and need to understand what we’re buying.”
“Our engineering team grew fast, and delivery got slower.”
What a STEPS CTO does
Four responsibilities.
One accountable person.
Technology strategy
The roadmap, and the decisions that shape it.
Technology roadmapBuild vs buyPlatform & vendor evaluationM&A technical due diligence
Architecture & security
Systems designed to hold, reviewed before they cost you.
Architecture reviewsCloud strategySecurity architectureTechnical debt reduction
Team & organization
The right people, structured to deliver.
Team structureHiring strategy & interviewsMentoring engineering leadsCareer frameworks
Delivery & operations
Engineering that ships, visible to the board.
Development processDevOps & CI/CDBoard reportingCompliance preparation
How it starts
From first call
to committed, in weeks.
Scope
A 60-minute session on your stack, your team and your decisions ahead : with a CTO, not a salesperson.
60-minute session
Meet
You interview the actual person who would take the role. No CV roulette.
Your CTO, named
Start
First deliverables within the first month : an architecture review, a roadmap draft, a decision record.
First month
Adjust
Monthly rhythm, scalable up or down. The model can change as your needs do.
Monthly · reversible
Good to know
The goal is your autonomy, not our permanence.
A company behind the CTO.
Your CTO can pull on 30+ STEPS engineers when a question exceeds one person : architecture, data, AI, QA, cloud.
We prepare our own exit.
Decision records, documented architecture, team mentoring : and help recruiting your permanent CTO when the time comes.
Leadership, not replacement.
The CTO leads and decides alongside your team; engineering capacity comes separately if you need it.