Services

Fractional CTO for startups and growing companies

Technical strategy, architecture, vendor and hiring decisions, and a second opinion before the expensive ones. For companies without a full-time CTO.

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Who it is for

  • Startups that need CTO-level decisions before they can hire a full-time CTO.
  • Companies that buy software from external vendors and need someone on their side to check the plan, the price and the delivery.
  • Founders facing an expensive technical decision who want a second opinion first.

What you get

  • A technical strategy and architecture, written down
  • Help choosing vendors and hiring engineers
  • External vendors managed through to delivery
  • A second opinion before expensive decisions
  • Every decision recorded, so the next engineer or CTO can take over

How We Work

  1. 01

    Intro call (opens in a new tab)

    Twenty minutes. You describe where the company is; we say honestly if a part-time CTO is what you need.

  2. 02

    First month

    We review your product, team, code and vendors, and write a short plan: what to fix first and what can wait.

  3. 03

    Every month

    Agreed days each month on the priorities in the plan. A short written update every week.

  4. 04

    Hand over or grow

    When you hire a full-time CTO, we help choose them and hand everything over. Or we adjust the days as you grow.

Selected Work

Projects led by our founder, mostly for Swedish companies.

Qred

FinTech / SME lending · CTO

Outcome Lending in 4 countries. Named among Europe's 10 fastest growing companies. A bank since 2023.

ProblemA new lender needed its own platform: application, credit decision, payout, repayment and collection.

SolutionThe core lending platform, built from zero as the first tech person, and an engineering team of 6.

Akuret

Retail AI · Scale

Outcome New retail chains can be added without cost growing at the same rate.

ProblemEvery new retail chain raised compute cost, and every new store needed manual setup.

SolutionA rewritten calculation pipeline, automated store onboarding, and AI-vision and demand-forecast prototypes.

Frequently asked questions

  • How much does it cost?

    From €2,500 per month, as a monthly retainer.

  • How much time do we get?

    €2,500 per month is about 2 days of work a month. We agree with you how that time is used.

  • How is this different from a full-time CTO?

    You get an experienced CTO for the days you need, for a fraction of a full-time salary. When you are ready to hire a full-time CTO, we help you find one and hand over the work.

  • Can you also build what we decide?

    Yes. If the plan needs a product or an AI setup, we can build it as a fixed-price project.

  • Who will be our CTO?

    Ansis Bērziņš, the founder of ASCo. 14 years in software, much of it in banking and lending, and CTO at Qred and Gårdskapital.

Book a Free 20-Minute Call

A product to build, or a team that should get more out of AI? Tell us in 20 minutes and we will say honestly if we are the right fit.

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