A fractional CTO for the systems your plant and sales team run on.
Your ERP, CRM, website, quoting tools and spreadsheets were each picked by a different person in a different year. A fractional CTO owns how they fit together, what to fix first and which vendors to trust, with an engineering team to build it.
- From $5,000/mo
- 3-month minimum
- No equity
- 5★ on Clutch
Your fractional seat
The team that ships
- Strategy
- Design
- Engineering
- Growth
One roof. One accountable partner.
You might need this seat if
- Orders, quotes or customer data get retyped between systems by hand
- A customer's security questionnaire lands and nobody knows who should answer it
- You're about to sign a big software contract and want a second opinion
- The person who knew how everything connects has left, or is about to
What the seat owns
The roadmap
One plan for systems, integrations and upgrades, in the order that saves the most time or risk, with OKRs the team actually works to.
Vendors and spend
Selecting, negotiating with and managing software and IT vendors, so you stop paying for tools nobody uses.
Security and risk
Backups, access, customer security questionnaires and the basics that keep a breach or an outage from stopping the floor.
What gets built
Integrations, internal tools, configurators and customer portals, specified clearly and built by our engineers, not slideware.
Your first 90 days
Weeks 1 to 4: map what you have
List every system, who owns it, what it costs and where data gets retyped. Flag the risks that can't wait.
Weeks 5 to 8: fix the urgent things
Close the biggest security gaps, stop the worst manual re-entry and settle any open vendor decisions.
Weeks 9 to 12: set the roadmap
Agree the 12-month plan and budget, and start the build cadence the team runs from month four.
The seat comes with a team
Most fractional executives hand you a plan and leave. Fractional Plus puts the executive in the seat and the senior Chykalophia team behind them, so strategy, design, engineering and growth work actually ships.
How it's priced
- From $5,000 a month, scoped around responsibility, availability and the outcomes that matter.
- Three-month minimum, then 30 days' written notice to wind down.
- No equity, no options and no headcount on your cap table.
- Work beyond the retainer is scoped as a separate fixed-price project.
No surprises, no lock-in games
- Written scope firstDeliverables, price and timeline in writing before any work starts. No hourly meter.How our process works
- Pay as the work movesProjects run on a deposit and a payment schedule. Retainers are billed monthly, quarterly or yearly.See starting prices
- You own everythingEvery account, credential, file and line of code stays in your name.Read the FAQ
- Founders stay closeAri and Peter run your first call and stay involved in your strategy, not just the kickoff.Meet Ari and Peter
After you book
What happens next
Book a call
Pick a time and tell us what's going on. It takes about two minutes, and we reply within one business day.
Talk it through
Up to an hour with Ari and Peter. You leave with a straight answer on fit, the likely scope and a price range.
What the call coversGet a written scope
A fixed-price proposal with clear milestones. Work starts only once you approve it.
Questions people ask
Read more
- Site Speed Is a Revenue Lever, Not a Tech DetailPerformance gets filed under engineering housekeeping. The data says a faster site is one of the most direct levers on conversion and revenue you have. Here's the business case, and where manufacturer catalogs and spec sheets usually lose the time.
- AI Search Is Changing B2B Discovery: What to Do About ItYour buyers' first reader is now often a machine. It reads your site, decides what you do, and puts you on the shortlist or leaves you off without telling you. The verified data, what it means for manufacturers, and a self-audit to fix it.
- Website Maintenance: What It Costs and What Goes WrongMost website maintenance plans check the software and stop there. For a B2B company, the expensive failures are harder to spot: a quote form that stops reaching sales, a certificate nobody renewed, a backup nobody ever restored. What a plan should cover, what it costs, and a monthly checklist you can copy.
Talk through the seat you're missing
A free discovery call, up to an hour, with Ari and Peter, the co-founders. You leave with a straight answer on fit, the likely scope and a price range.