The technical calls and the code from one person, for founders before the first hire. $997/week, no equity.
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Before the first hire, the CTO job is technical: decide and build. Every usual way to fill it has a catch.
| Route | What It Is | The Catch |
|---|---|---|
| Advisor plus Developer | A few hours of advice a week and a developer who builds | The catch: Two bills, and you translate between them |
| Technical Co-Founder | A share of the company for someone you have just met | The catch: Few to find, and a long search |
| Full-Time CTO | A salary that takes most of a seed round | The catch: Paid before there is a team to lead |
| Agency or Freelancer | They build to a spec | The catch: Writing the spec is the part you need help with |
| Varstatt | Decides and builds, by the week | The catch: One task at a time |
One person decides and builds. Every task ends in an update like this.
In writing, no meetings to run. The repo, cloud accounts and keys are yours from day one.
Founders who need the technical calls made and built, before there's a team to lead.
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A simple, predictable and transparent process that eliminates development headaches.
After subscribing, you get a dedicated task board. It becomes your product roadmap.
I make the first technical choices and set up the accounts in your name, each choice written down with its reason.
You set the priorities. I turn them into tasks and work through them one by one.
You review the work and give feedback. I revise until you're fully satisfied.
You approve finished work. I move to the next priority, about one major feature a month.
You report issues anytime; I handle them first. When you hire a team, I stay on or hand over.
One weekly price for the decisions and the build. No equity, no contract.
A CTO's judgment and a senior builder in one person.
$997/week for the decisions and the build. No hourly billing, no equity. Pause or cancel anytime. The build cost tool sizes your scope in weeks.
Fractional, outsourced or CTO as a service: here it's one seat with three jobs.
Not included: hiring, team management, board updates, investor decks.
Same work before the first hire. Hire full-time once there are engineers to lead.
If no one makes the technical calls, yes. Each call comes with its reasons in plain words, and you decide. Start with the project scope tool.
Before the first line of code: the stack and the data model cost the most to undo. Later works too, when a first version has no technical owner.
Same scope, paid by the week instead of in equity.
Here it's decisions plus the build, not reviews. AI makes me 2-3x faster at the typing. It doesn't decide what comes first or carry it to production: that's still the hard part.
Hire them. I stay as the senior engineer or hand over. The handover is built in from day one: access, docs, history.
JavaScript and TypeScript on the default stack: React, Next.js, Node.js, Firebase. For other stacks, I say no rather than learn on your dime.
I revise until you're satisfied. If it still isn't working, cancel with no penalty. The code and accounts stay yours.
Fill in the project form, about a minute. I reply the next working day; if it fits, with a first plan and a call invite.
Jurij understand the core problem, insists on building the right experiences for the customers.
Kunal Modi
Founder @ SOAPNoteAI
Working with Jurij is an absolute joy, consistently exceeds expectations.
Janis Ozolins
Content Creator
Consistently delivered quality code in great time, very hard working & precise.
Bartosz Poźniak
CEO @ MyCointainer
The kind of engineer that every company on the planet would be lucky to have.
Hosam Mazawi
COO @ LemonUnit
Fractional CTO fits founders best: people building a product without a technical co-founder.
Fractional CTO
“No one makes the technical calls”: the calls and the code, every week.
“An idea nobody has clicked”: the core flow on a live link in one week, one payment.
“An idea, ready to test with paying users”: the smallest real product, launched in week 6.
“Ready to build the whole product”: launched in week 6, then built on real feedback.
“Phones, without three separate apps”: one app that installs from a link.
“An app stuck, unsafe, or left by its developer”: the bleeding stopped and a plan, in one paid week.
“A V1 that holds the product back”: V2 built beside it, until every user moves.
“A raise or a purchase on the calendar”: what diligence will find, ranked, in one paid week.
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