Senior technology leadership, without a full-time hire.
Fractional CTO services from Algoramming, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, give founders and teams across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, and Australia a senior technology leader who steers architecture, hiring, and roadmap part-time, so you get the judgement of a CTO without the cost of a full-time executive hire.
We give you a senior technology leader on a part-time basis, to steer architecture, hiring, and the roadmap, so you get CTO-level judgement without the CTO-level payroll.
What this specialism means in practice, written for the people who buy it and the people who will live inside the product after launch.
Covered end to end4
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The decisions that are expensive to get wrong
Early technology decisions compound. The architecture you choose, the first senior engineers you hire, the platforms you commit to, each one quietly shapes what is easy and what is painful for years. A fractional CTO puts experienced judgement in the room for exactly those decisions, at a fraction of a full-time cost. You get someone who has seen these choices play out, so you avoid the traps that are obvious only in hindsight.
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Leadership that leaves you stronger
A good fractional CTO is not a dependency; it is a multiplier. We help you define roles and hire the people who will eventually own the function, set the standards and rituals that make a team effective, and document the direction so it does not live only in conversations. The goal is a team and a plan that stand on their own, with us as a steady advisor rather than a permanent crutch.
What you get
Outcomes, not deliverables.
We measure success in shipped value, not tickets closed. Every engagement is anchored to a few outcomes both sides can defend.
Two-week shipping rhythm
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Senior technical judgement in the room for the big decisions
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A defensible architecture and technology direction
03
Better hiring and vendor decisions
04
A second opinion you can pick up the phone to
What we deliver
Concrete artifacts, not slide decks.
Everything lands in your repositories, your cloud, and your control. Nothing is locked behind us.
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Artifact
Regular strategy and architecture guidance
02
Artifact
Hiring support: role definition, screening, and interviews
03
Artifact
Vendor and build-versus-buy assessments
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Artifact
A living technology roadmap
Our process
The same senior team, the same playbook.
Fractional CTO runs on the tech partnership playbook. Boring on purpose, predictable by design.
01Discover
→
02Design
→
03Build
→
04Launch
→
05Support
1
Discover
We audit the team, the code, the cloud bills, and the roadmap, then write down what we found.
Phase 01 / 05
2
Design
We propose a 90-day plan with the unglamorous, high-leverage moves no one had time to make.
Phase 02 / 05
3
Build
We embed in standups, code reviews, and architecture decisions, pushing tempo and quality together.
Phase 03 / 05
4
Launch
We co-own the next big release with your team: process, instrumentation, and incident readiness.
Phase 04 / 05
5
Support
We stay on retainer for the calls that compound: hiring, vendor reviews, and quarterly planning.
Phase 05 / 05
Our toolkit
Pragmatic tools. Senior judgement.
The everyday kit our team reaches for on this work. None of it is sacred; every choice is justified against the problem.
Interface
Application
Data and APIs
Cloud and delivery
01Linear
02Notion
03GitHub
04ClickUp
05Miro
06Slack
07Datadog
08PagerDuty
09AWS Console
10GitHub Actions
Common questions
Things teams ask before signing.
Have a different one? Send a single email; we usually answer within a business day.
Yes. Defining roles, screening, and running technical interviews is core to the work, because building the team is often the most valuable thing we can do.
02Can you also help us build while advising?
We can. The studio can deliver alongside the advisory role, which is useful when you need momentum before the in-house team is in place.
03When should a startup hire a fractional CTO?
When technology decisions are getting expensive to get wrong but you cannot yet justify a full-time CTO: choosing an architecture, making the first senior hires, weighing build versus buy, or reassuring investors. A fractional CTO puts experienced judgement in the room for exactly those moments.
04What is the difference between a fractional CTO and an interim CTO?
A fractional CTO works part-time on an ongoing basis, a day or two a week, as a steady advisor. An interim CTO is full-time but temporary, filling the seat until you hire a permanent one. We most often work fractionally, and scale up when a gap needs covering.
05How much does a fractional CTO cost per month?
It depends on the time commitment, from a day or two a week down to a lighter advisory cadence. We size it to the decisions in front of you and agree a monthly figure up front, so it stays a predictable cost rather than an open-ended one.
06Can a fractional CTO work with a US or Gulf-based team remotely?
Yes. We work remotely with teams across the US, the UK, and the Gulf, overlapping hours for the meetings that matter and staying reachable between them. Remote is how most of our fractional engagements already run.