M_19// LEADERSHIP
Senior engineering leadership. Without the full-time cost.
MISSION BRIEF
Not every team needs a full-time CTO. But every team needs someone who can make the right technical calls, align the dev team with business goals, and know when to push and when to protect the team. That's what a fractional tech lead does.
CAPABILITIES
MISSION INTEL
CLASSIFICATION
S+
MISSION XP
9.5K
▸ OVERVIEW
A full-time senior engineering leader costs €200k+ and three months of hiring. Most early-stage and mid-market companies need maybe two days a week of one — to set the roadmap, make the right hires, defend the architecture, and keep the team pointed in the same direction.
We act as your fractional CTO or tech lead: senior engineers with 10–20 years of leadership experience, embedded enough to be useful, light-touch enough to be affordable.
▸ WHAT WE DELIVER
Quarterly planning, dependency mapping, capacity, risk — the artefacts a founder shouldn't be writing alone.
ADRs, tech-stack choices, build vs buy, vendor selection — done with rigour, defended in writing.
Job specs, sourcing, technical screening, offer strategy. We hire engineers who'll outlast our engagement.
1:1s with leads, performance frameworks, calibration — the things ICs need but founders aren't trained for.
Technical sections of board decks, investor questions answered, due-diligence prep.
Reviewing the work of agencies and contractors so you know whether you're getting what you paid for.
▸ WHO IT'S FOR
▸ OUTCOMES YOU CAN EXPECT
▸ HOW WE WORK
Two-week deep dive: team, codebase, roadmap, partners, constraints.
Roadmap clarified, top 3 risks addressed, first hires sourced.
Weekly cadence, monthly reviews, quarterly planning.
When you're ready for a full-time CTO, we hire them — and hand over without a gap.
▸ FREQUENTLY ASKED
Most engagements are 1–2 days. Intensive periods (during a raise, post-incident, in-the-weeds project) flex up.
Median is 9 months. Some are 3, some are 3 years. We're happy to plan for replacement.
Sometimes — for critical architecture, prototypes, or coaching. Mostly we direct and review, so we scale.
▸ THE ITI-X DIFFERENCE
We lead by doing. Our tech leads are active builders — not consultants writing reports. When we own the roadmap, we're accountable to it.
READY TO DEPLOY
Let's build, secure, design, or lead — together.