SURELY SHUBHAM
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Strategic Leadership // High-Margin Retainer

Fractional CTO

Executive technical leadership and architectural oversight for high-growth founders.

Executive Retainer Availability

Limited to 2 active founders at a time to ensure dedicated, high-impact architectural oversight and immediate responsiveness.

Hiring a full-time CTO before Product-Market Fit costs $300k-$400k/year in equity and salary—while relying solely on junior developers or offshore agencies leads to wasted capital and fragile software. As your Fractional CTO, I partner with founders to make high-conviction architectural decisions, lead technical diligence, vet agencies and senior hires, and instill engineering excellence without executive bloat.

When You Need a Fractional CTO

  • You are a non-technical or solo founder managing freelance engineers or agencies with zero visibility into code quality.
  • You are preparing for a Seed or Series A round and need your data room, system architecture, and IP security vetted for technical diligence.
  • Your team is debating complex architectural choices (e.g. monolith vs microservices, cloud vendor lock-in) and needs decisive leadership.
  • You need to establish rigorous hiring benchmarks, conduct high-standard technical interviews, and lead code review governance.

Execution Architecture

01

Architecture Diligence & Tech Audit

A comprehensive review of your existing cloud infrastructure, code repositories, security posture, and monthly burn rate to identify immediate technical liabilities.

02

Strategic Technical Roadmap

Formulating a concrete 6-12 month engineering roadmap directly tied to business KPIs, revenue goals, and fundraising milestones.

03

Weekly Governance & Code Review

Leading weekly technical standups, reviewing pull requests for critical systems, mentoring your engineering team, and unblocking hard technical hurdles.

04

Hiring Oversight & Diligence Defense

Vetting candidate resumes, running technical interviews for senior hires, and directly defending your architecture during investor technical diligence.

Core Technical Stack & Tooling

Cloud Architecture
AWS, Google Cloud, Cloudflare Workers, Docker
Security & Compliance
SOC2 Readiness, Clerk/Auth0, Database Encryption
Advisory Domains
Technical Due Diligence, Vendor Negotiation, System Scalability

Investment & Engagement Terms

Retainer packages start at $8,000/month for active strategic advisory (weekly architectural reviews, roadmap formulation, hiring screens) to $15,000/month for high-touch technical co-leadership and hands-on governance.

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Absolute IP Ownership

No hostage
situations.

The most dangerous part of outsourcing software is not owning the thing you paid for. I've seen founders pay heavily, only to realize the agency still holds the keys.

Everything I build is 100% your intellectual property from day one. You own the code, the infrastructure, and the data. No lock-in.

What belongs to you:

  • 01Source code & Git Repositories
  • 02Apple & Google Developer Accounts
  • 03Cloud Infrastructure & Databases
  • 04Figma Design Files & Assets
  • 05CI/CD Pipelines & Signing Keys
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