Fractional CTO Services
Senior technical leadership for the decisions that are expensive to get wrong, without a full-time hire.
Senior judgement for the decisions that are hard to undo.
BitsSolved is a software studio in Tamil Nadu, India that provides fractional CTO services: senior technical leadership for architecture, roadmap, security and vendor decisions without a full-time hire. Early technical choices set the cost of everything after them: the architecture, the vendors, what gets built first. Many founders make them alone, or with a developer too close to the work to say no.
You may need a fractional CTO if
- You are about to commit to an architecture, a vendor or an agency
- Your developers need someone senior to review designs and proposals
- The roadmap keeps slipping and nobody can say why
- Enterprise customers ask technical questions you have to forward
- A full-time CTO is not affordable, or not needed yet
What the engagement includes.
A standing technical advisor
A senior person who knows your product, available for decisions as they come up, on a monthly scope.
Written decisions
Each big decision recorded with the options, the trade-offs and the call, so the reasoning outlives the meeting.
Design and proposal reviews
Reviews of your team's designs, the changes that matter, and proposals from vendors and agencies.
A technical roadmap
What to build, in what order, and what to leave out, checked against what the business needs next.
Enterprise readiness
Help preparing the answers enterprise buyers ask about security, data handling and reliability.
- Architecture decisions
- Infrastructure and cloud strategy
- Security and reliability
- Scaling decisions
- Technical roadmap reviews
- Engineering design reviews
- Production readiness
- Vendor and technology evaluation
- Technical debt priorities
- Guidance for your developers
- Enterprise technical requirements
- 01
First conversation
Where the product is, what is decided, what is not, and where you need a senior voice.
- 02
Baseline review
A short review of the architecture and the roadmap, so the advice starts from the real system.
- 03
Ongoing advisory
Regular sessions and reviews on a monthly scope agreed in writing, adjusted as needs change.
- 04
Hand over
When you hire a full-time technical lead, the decisions, documents and context go to them.
Non-technical founders
You are building a software business and need someone senior on your side of the table.
Teams without a technical lead
Your developers write good code and need direction, review and someone to make the call.
Businesses commissioning software
You are hiring an agency or freelancers and want independent oversight of what they build.
The first call is free and is mostly us asking questions.
Advice only, or advice plus delivery by the BitsSolved team. Your choice, per month.
Decisions like these are the job.
KeyNesta is a two factor authenticator BitsSolved built and runs. These calls were made before the code, and they decided what the product could and could not become.
- Sector
- Security and identity software
- Platforms
- Web, native iOS, native Android
- Model
- Encrypted on the device before sync
- Scope
- Product, platform apps and backend
Encrypt first, and accept what that costs
Encrypting on the device before sync is the whole product, and it removes options that make a product easier to sell. There is no server side search across entries, no password reset that recovers a vault, and no support process that can read a user’s codes to help them. Every one of those is a feature request that will eventually arrive, and every one of them has to be answered no. Deciding that at the start is much cheaper than deciding it later.
Native on both phones, one backend
An authenticator lives in the moments where a person is already irritated: mid login, one hand, thirty seconds on the clock. That is where a wrapped web app is noticeably worse, so both phone apps are native and share one Go backend. The advice is not always this, and on a content or forms product we say so, but here the interaction is the product.
Fractional CTO questions.
Anything else, write to us.
contact@bitssolved.comLonger answers on the blogTell us the decision ahead.
The first call is free and is mostly us asking questions. After it you get the scope in writing and a fixed quote for the first phase.
What happens next
- You send the formTell us the problem.
- We reply by emailWith any questions.
- A free first callThen the scope in writing.