■ Fractional CTO for small teams
A fractional CTO
already inside your codebase.
You're a small team shipping fast. Drop my specialist agents into your repo. They do real engineering work for free, and they show me exactly where your team is stuck. So when we talk, I'm not a consultant reading slides. I'm a senior partner who already knows your code.
Free, open source, you keep the code
The gap
Ten people.
No senior technical cover.
You're building a product and moving fast. But every week there's an architectural call you're not sure about, a developer stuck for a day and not saying so, a shortcut that'll cost you in six months. At your size, a full-time CTO is overkill. And a traditional fractional CTO bills by the meeting, never sees your actual code, and is long gone by the time the real problem surfaces.
A full-time CTO is overkill
At ten people you don't need a full-time executive. You need senior judgment, exactly when a decision is on the line.
Advisors bill by the meeting
Most fractional CTOs sell you 30-minute slots and slide decks. They never open your repo, so their advice stays generic.
Problems surface too late
By the time a risky approach or a stalled PR reaches you in a status update, it's already shipped, or already blocking the team.
The model
Start with the agents.
Keep the CTO.
The idea is simple. My specialist agents live in your repo and bring spec-driven discipline to how your team builds: spec, design, plan, architecture, implementation, tests. As they work, they surface where your team is struggling and route it to me. That means I can act as your fractional CTO across a real workload without living in your calendar. You get senior technical judgment, on demand, grounded in what's actually happening in your code.
The agents
Specialist agents,
yours to keep.
Install them in minutes. They start bringing senior engineering discipline to your team on day one, no engagement required. This is the value up front: whether or not we ever work together, your team ships a little better.
Spec Creator
Turns a fuzzy ask into a clear, reviewable spec with acceptance criteria before a line of code is written.
Designer
Brings real UX and UI thinking to user-facing work, so what you ship is considered, not improvised.
Plan Creator
Turns an approved spec into a concrete implementation plan, naming the risky parts instead of glossing over them.
Architect
Owns your architecture doc, reviews every plan against it, and keeps the system coherent as the team grows.
Developer
Implements an approved plan on a sandbox branch, so work follows the spec instead of drifting from it.
Tester
Authors, runs, and audits tests one-to-one against the acceptance criteria, so quality is verified, not assumed.
The specialist agent set evolves. Install what's relevant to your workflow. Take, keep, and fork any of it.
How intervention works
Your agents tell me
where you're stuck.
The same agents that do the work also watch for engineering-health signals: work starting with no clear spec, architecture drifting from the plan, a plan that skips the risky parts, thin test coverage, a developer going in circles. When something matters, it surfaces to me. No status meetings, no you re-explaining the context. I see the problem while it's small, and step in. That's the whole point: intervention that's fast and specific because it's grounded in your real code.
Your code stays yours. The agents run inside your repo; what surfaces to me is the engineering signal I need to help, nothing you wouldn't already put in a code review.
- Work shipping without a clear spec
- Architecture drifting from the plan
- Plans that skip the risky parts
- Thin or missing test coverage
- User-facing work with no design thinking
- A developer blocked and not saying so
The engagement
A senior technical partner,
on demand.
When you bring me on as your fractional CTO, you're not buying meetings. You're buying judgment, exactly when it's needed. I course-correct risky approaches before they ship, unblock stuck developers, right-size your stack, and keep your architecture coherent as you grow. My agents act as a forward-deployed engineer, so I stay current on your codebase between every session.
Let's talk about your teamEngagements are monthly. Book a call and we'll scope what your team needs.
What you get
- Architectural direction you can trust
- Unblock-on-demand for stuck developers
- Pre-ship review of risky approaches
- Stack, testing, and infrastructure guidance
- A team that ships faster with less rework
How it works
From free agents
to unblocked team.
01
Drop in the agents
Install the specialist agents in your repo. Free, takes minutes, no commitment.
02
They work and watch
Agents bring spec-driven discipline and surface where your team is stuck.
03
We talk, with context
Book a session. I already understand your codebase, so we skip the ramp-up.
04
Stay unblocked
An ongoing fractional-CTO partnership. The agents keep me current between sessions.
Who this is for
Built for small teams
moving fast.
- You're a CTO or technical founder
- 5 to 15 engineers, shipping weekly
- Building a product, not maintaining a legacy
- No full-time senior technical leadership
- You'd rather prevent the mess than clean it up
Not a fit if you already have a strong CTO and a mature platform team. You don't need me.
Who you'd be working with
Sriramkumar (Srix)
I help small engineering teams build faster and cleaner, as a hands-on fractional CTO whose agents are already in your codebase. I've spent years turning AI usage into real engineering leverage for teams of every size. I bring that to teams your size without the full-time cost or the booking friction.
Book a conversationGet the agents.
Then let's talk.
Start with the free specialist agents today. When you're ready for senior technical cover that already knows your code, I'm one conversation away.