A fractional CTO (CTO as a service) leads your technology 30 hours a week for USD 6,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum. Your technical lead: a senior architect chosen to fit your company and led by Mat Caniglia. Roadmap, architecture, hiring and a weekly leadership meeting.
Billed monthlyFractional CTOUSD 6,000 / month6-month minimum, 30 h a week
Status: Production platform, work ongoing
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Read the caseA fractional CTO is a senior technical leader who works for your company part-time instead of full-time. At Clouditive that is a senior architect, chosen to fit your company and led by Mat Caniglia, for 30 hours a week at USD 6,000 a month, with a 6-month minimum. The work is the technical roadmap, architecture decisions, hiring and team review, and a weekly meeting with your leadership.
You do not need an executive on payroll to get technical direction. You need one person who owns it and sits down with your leadership every week.
If you are not sure which of the three you need, start with Discovery: USD 7,000, 1 to 4 weeks, and it ends with a full roadmap. We invoice in US dollars from DX Clouditive LLC, monthly, net 15, by international wire.
Everything in the package, in the order it lands. The price and the duration stay the same.
Step 1: The roadmap
A technical roadmap: what gets built, in what order, and why.
Step 2: Architecture decisions
Architecture decisions, made with your team.
Step 3: Hiring and team
Hiring and team review.
Step 4: Leadership meeting
A weekly meeting with your leadership.
6-month minimum, 30 h a week
USD 6,000 / month
Week 1: Understand
We learn your product, your systems and your team.
Week 2: Plan and organize
We plan, prioritize and put in order what comes first, then coordinate and organize the work with your team.
Real clients, dated figures, and a plain note on what was not done.
Investment analytics / FintechStatus: Production platform, work ongoingAbout 3x more production releases per week: from 1.15 a week (April to July 2026) to 3.7 to 4.0 a week (last 30 days)
AI marketing / MarTechStatus: Built end to end by Clouditive89 releases in 10 days, v1.0.0 to v1.61.0, every production deploy checked to run the exact tested buildClouditive built our product with us goal by goal: the AI with its judge panel, the Google Cloud platform and 854 test files. We shipped 89 releases in 10 days, each checked to run the exact tested build, and a person still approves every piece.
Sebastian Tavul, CEOAdd engineers to your own team at the published rates instead of buying a package.
USD per hour, drawn to one scale
A senior technical leader who works for a company part-time. Ours is a senior architect, 30 hours a week, who owns the roadmap and architecture decisions.
The same role as a fractional CTO, bought from a firm instead of hired as a person. Ours is USD 6,000 a month for 30 hours a week, led by Mat Caniglia, and engineers can be added at the published hourly rates.
Hire a full-time CTO when the role needs a person's whole week and you can run the search. Take a fractional CTO when you need senior direction now and a published price: USD 6,000 a month, 6-month minimum, then 30 days' notice.
USD 6,000 a month for 30 hours a week, billed monthly.
Clouditive's Fractional CTO costs USD 6,000 a month for 30 hours a week, billed monthly, with a 6-month minimum. It is a published price, like every rate and package on this site. If you first need to know what you have, Discovery is USD 7,000 for 1 to 4 weeks and ends with a full roadmap.
A senior architect chosen to fit your company, led by Mat Caniglia. Who fills the role depends on the client, and Mat leads every project end to end.
In week 1 we understand your product, your systems and your team. In week 2 we plan, prioritize and put in order what comes first, then coordinate and organize the work with your team.
Sets the technical roadmap, makes architecture decisions with your team, helps with hiring and reviews the team, and meets your leadership once a week.
If the product is the business and nobody senior owns the technical direction, yes. If you only need a system designed, the architect at 20 hours a week costs less.
A company whose product runs on software but has nobody senior who answers for it. The CTO left, the founder is not technical, or the team grew faster than its direction. The signs are production that keeps breaking, a roadmap nobody can defend, and hiring without a technical bar. A part-time CTO fixes that without a full-time hire.
The architect is 20 hours a week at USD 4,480 a month and focuses on the system. The fractional CTO is 30 hours at USD 6,000 and adds roadmap, hiring and team review, and the weekly leadership meeting.
The architect at 20 hours a week costs USD 4,480 a month. They design the architecture, answer your team and build with it. The fractional CTO is 30 hours a week at USD 6,000 a month and adds the leadership work: the roadmap, hiring and team review, and the weekly meeting with your leadership. Take the architect for the system, the CTO for the direction.
Yes. Discovery is USD 7,000 for 1 to 4 weeks and ends with a full roadmap: backlog, roles, critical changes and needs.
Yes. 6 months, like staff augmentation. After that, 30 days' notice ends it.
It is billed monthly: USD 6,000 for 30 hours a week. The first 6 months are the minimum, and once they pass a 30-day notice ends the engagement.
In English, Spanish or Portuguese, whichever your leadership uses.
We reply to every request within 1 business day. We sign an NDA before the call if you ask.
