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Retainer (1-3 days/week)
Fractional CTO / Principal Architect
Senior technical leadership to stabilize delivery, reduce risk, and make build-vs-buy decisions that stick.
Investment
From EUR 6,500/month (1 day/week), typical EUR 6,500-EUR 18,000/month
Final scope depends on involvement level, team shape, and criticality.
Prices exclude VAT.
Who it's for
- Founders and CEOs scaling a product team without a strong technical decision system
- Teams stuck in delivery slippage, incidents, or architecture debt
- Companies adopting AI and needing reliability, evaluation, and cost control
Problems I solve
- Releases slip and quality is inconsistent
- You do not know what to build vs buy
- AI is in production, but quality and cost are not controlled
- The team is strong, but senior technical decisions are missing
What I do
- 1First 10 business days: architecture map, delivery diagnosis, risk register, and 30/60/90-day plan
- 2Weekly execution cadence with engineering leads
- 3Delivery operating system: quality gates, release safety, and metrics
- 4Vendor selection scorecards, hiring bar, and technical coaching
- 5If AI is involved: eval harness, guardrails, monitoring, and cost controls
What you get
- Target architecture and phased plan
- Predictable delivery cadence with fewer surprises
- Decision log and vendor scorecards
- Playbooks and handover
Not a fit if
- You want a ticket-closing developer
- You want to add AI without workflows, ownership, or measurement
Success looks like
- Releases become boring in a good way
- Better decisions with less debate
- AI features stay within quality and cost bounds in production
Ready to discuss?
Book a 30-min intro call. If it is a fit, I will propose a retainer scope and onboarding sprint.
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