Boutique CTO strike teams for high-stakes products.
Elite CTO Leadership. On Your Terms.
CTONinjas delivers fractional CTO leadership to founders and scaling teams that need executive firepower without full-time overhead.
SWAT-level support from leaders who have scaled SaaS, fintech, and healthtech under pressure.
Brought to you by the team behind
SiteQuick and Advintures — products built by the CTONinjas team.
Advintures
Wine & spirits platform
SiteQuick
Web consulting & hosting
Want a strike team like this behind your roadmap?
Talk to a CTO about your roadmapProblems We Solve
We plug leadership gaps, stabilize delivery, and make your investors confident in your tech.
We just lost our CTO.
Interim leadership without delay. We stabilize your team and product while helping you hire right.
We're scaling too fast.
Ensure your architecture, team, and processes scale with your growth — not against it.
We're prepping for investors.
Get your tech stack, security, and roadmap investor-ready with a due diligence audit.
We're behind schedule.
Our experienced leads help your engineers ship better, faster — with fewer bottlenecks.
We’re not sure if we’re secure.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR — we map your compliance path and embed modern security practices.
Where We Plug In
High-stakes engagements where experienced CTO leadership makes the difference.
Product Audit for VC-backed SaaS
Deep dive on security, scale, and code quality; uncovered $400k+ in risk before Series A and shipped a remediation plan.
Compliance Strategy for Fintech App
Mapped SOC 2 path in ~60 days, embedded security practices, and passed audit with zero major findings.
Tech Roadmap for AI Startup
Reset roadmap and delivery model; cut two quarters of waste and aligned teams to the right milestones.
Infrastructure Cleanup for eCommerce
Modernized stack, added CI/CD, and reduced AWS spend by 40% while improving reliability.
Leadership Gap After CTO Departure
Interim CTO in days; stabilized delivery and hired the right permanent leader within ~90 days.
Our Services
Drop-in CTOs and specialist pods that fix critical issues, accelerate delivery, and de-risk audits.
Fractional CTO
Hands-on technology leadership without the full-time cost.
Scaling Architecture
Refactor or rebuild your system to handle scale, speed, and security.
Security & Compliance
Prepare for audits and build a security-forward culture.
CTO & Engineering Coaching
Coaching for founders and rising leaders to operate at CTO level sooner.
Who is behind CTONinjas?
A seasoned bench of ex-CTOs and senior engineers
CTONinjas is a small, vetted bench of fractional CTOs and specialist engineers who have led teams through audits, outages, and investor scrutiny.
We plug in where things are messy — fragile systems, aggressive timelines, unclear ownership — and bring structure, speed, and calm.
- Led engineering at Fortune 500s and venture-backed startups
- Built and scaled SaaS, fintech, and healthtech platforms
- Comfortable in the boardroom, with investors, and with ICs
How we work together
A 4-step playbook for high-stakes products
Assess & stabilize
We land inside your team, map risks, and stop the bleeding fast.
- Technical and product discovery sessions
- Architecture and pipeline review
- Immediate stabilization plan for critical issues
Design the path forward
We build a pragmatic plan your team can execute quickly.
- 90-day roadmap aligned to business goals
- Prioritized list of tech debts and risks
- Clear ownership between product, eng, and vendors
Execute with a strike team
We embed a fractional CTO and senior pod to deliver outcomes.
- Hands-on leadership in standups and planning
- Rapid fixes to unblock key initiatives
- Mentoring and up-leveling your existing team
Leave you stronger
We build systems and people that keep working after we step back.
- Documented patterns and runbooks
- Hiring and coaching recommendations
- Option for ongoing light-touch advisory
Full-time CTO vs Fractional
Get executive leadership now, with flexibility to match your stage.
| Fractional CTO | Full-time CTO | |
|---|---|---|
| Speed to start | Days — embed immediately with the right leader | Months — search, interview, negotiate, onboard |
| Cost | Right-sized for your stage; no long-term overhead | Executive salary + equity + long-term overhead |
| Flexibility | Scale up/down as needs change; targeted engagements | Fixed scope; harder to flex as priorities shift |
| Team integration | Hands-on with your engineers and PMs; builds durable practices | Depends on hire quality; ramp may be slow |
Proof you can point to
Outcomes we deliver when the stakes are high.
Audit readiness
SOC 2 pass in ~60 days; zero major findings; investor diligence cleared.
Scale without chaos
10M users in 12 months; delivery stabilized and teams unblocked.
Cost + reliability win
AWS spend cut by ~40% while uptime and deployment speed improved.
FAQs
What founders and boards ask us most often.
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