Your CTO starting Monday

An experienced technical leader who joins your company 2 to 5 days a week, with no hiring process and no payroll overhead. They own architecture, stack decisions, development and recruiting, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time CTO.

Between €7,000 and €15,000 per month depending on involvement (2 to 5 days per week). The French fractional CTO market sits between €800 and €2,000 per day. Three-month commitment, no hiring risk, no payroll charges.

Below 8 to 10 developers, a full-time CTO is rarely 100% busy with actual technical leadership. A fractional CTO covers architecture, structural decisions and technical management, and you switch to a full-time hire when team size justifies it.

Remote by default, for clients in France and abroad: weekly video check-ins, written reporting, asynchronous code reviews. Based in Paris, I travel for key moments (kick-off, steering committees, hiring). For a long-term engagement, on-site presence in the Paris area is possible.

A full audit of what exists (code, infrastructure, team, processes), quick wins shipped within the first two weeks, then a technical roadmap aligned with your business goals, with reporting you can share with investors.

I code. That is the core of the offer: a hands-on CTO who ships the architecture AND the features, augmented by AI to produce the output of a team. Advice without execution is exactly what this format avoids.

I structure the team: code standards, code reviews, CI/CD, mentoring and hiring. At TF1, I am Tech Lead of a 4-developer squad within a multi-squad organization; that same playbook applies directly to your existing team.

3 months, renewable, to guarantee technical continuity, with a one-month notice period and no penalty. If the format no longer fits, you stop, with clean documentation and handover.