Senior judgement, for the phase that needs it.
Fractional CTO, architecture review, RFP and tender support, and team augmentation — for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong and hard to reverse.
How we treat this work.
There are moments when a company needs senior technical judgement for a few months rather than a permanent hire: choosing a platform it will live with for five years, answering a tender that will be scored by engineers, or inheriting a codebase from a team that has left.
That is the work. Not a permanent seat, not a report that lands and gets filed — someone in the room while the decision is being made, who has shipped the thing being argued about, and whose incentive is to be right rather than to extend the engagement.
Sometimes the useful answer costs us the project: build it in-house, keep the vendor you have, do not rebuild it yet. We would rather give you that than a proposal.
What actually lands.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical ownership for a defined period — hiring, architecture, vendor decisions, and the roadmap conversations with your board.
Architecture review
A read on what you have built: where it will break at ten times the load, what is a real risk versus a stylistic preference, and what to fix first.
Technical due diligence
For acquisitions and investments: code and infrastructure quality, key-person risk, licensing exposure, and what the integration will actually cost.
RFP and tender support
Technical sections of a bid written to be scored — architecture, compliance, and delivery plan, in Arabic and English, to the format the buyer asked for.
Team augmentation
Engineers embedded into your team for a critical phase, working your process and your repository — and leaving documentation, not dependency.
Second opinion
A short, scoped engagement when you have a proposal in hand and want someone with no stake in it to read it honestly.
The markets we ship into.
- Saudi Arabia — technical bid support for government and semi-government tenders, in Arabic and English.
- Egypt — fractional leadership for scaling product teams.
- UAE — enterprise architecture and vendor selection.
- United States — diligence and architecture review for investors and acquirers.
What gets asked before signing.
- What does a fractional CTO actually do?
- Owns the technical decisions a founder or a CEO should not be making alone: what to build versus buy, who to hire and in what order, which architecture the next three years can live with, and which vendor promises are not real. Usually one to three days a week, for a defined period with an explicit end.
- Will you review work another vendor built?
- Yes, and we try to do it fairly. Plenty of code that looks wrong from outside was a reasonable decision under constraints we cannot see. The review separates genuine risk from things we would simply have done differently, because conflating the two wastes your money and damages a relationship you may still need.
- Can you help us answer a government tender?
- Yes — the technical sections, in Arabic and English, written to the evaluation format the buyer published rather than as marketing. We have worked on government-adjacent delivery in Saudi Arabia, so the compliance and data-residency sections are familiar ground rather than research.
- What if your advice is that we should not hire you?
- Then that is the advice. It happens — build it in-house, keep your current vendor, wait two quarters. A review engagement is priced on its own so that outcome costs us nothing to say, which is the only way the review is worth anything to you.
- Mobile app developmentMobile apps that pass review and keep shipping.
- Web developmentWebsites and web platforms that load fast and read natively.
- Applied AIAI that moves a number, not a demo.
- Cloud & DevOpsInfrastructure you can hand to an on-call engineer.
- Product designDesign that survives contact with Arabic.
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