CTO / CIO as a Service

Fractional CTO

Senior technical leadership without the cost of a full-time hire. We plan your technology, choose the right vendors, build or fix your systems, and set up the team to run them.

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Signs you need a CTO, part time

Systems that don't connect

Sales, stock and finance live in separate tools, and someone copies data between them by hand.

No clear tech budget

You don't know which roles to hire, what to build and what to buy.

A legacy stack

Old software still runs the business, and nobody left knows how it works.

AI moves too fast

You want AI in your operations but have nobody in-house to judge the options.

Three packages, one for each stage

Every package starts with your business goals, not with a tool.

01 · Early-stage startups and solo founders

Startup CTO

  • Technology strategy, vendor comparison and a tech budget you can track
  • Hiring plan for key technical roles, and help finding the right people
  • Build-Operate-Transfer setup for your first in-house tech team
  • Idea-to-launch MVP and prototype builds, including industrial hardware
  • Workflow reviews and AI tool training for the founding team
02 · Established SMEs and growing businesses

SME CTO / CIO

  • Deep-dive technical assessment of software, hardware, data and processes, delivered as a written report with a Q&A session
  • Buy, build or license advice, with due diligence on vendors
  • Modernization and migration of legacy systems, with change management
  • Support of legacy systems on a fixed budget, and AI-assisted documentation of old code
  • Data strategy and an end-to-end pipeline from data warehouse to live dashboards
03 · Venture capital and investors

Investor tech advisory

  • Technical due diligence reports for an investment thesis, with recommendations and cost estimates
  • Fractional CTO or technical advisor for portfolio companies
  • Build-Operate-Transfer offshore development teams in Vietnam
  • Introductions to vetted Vietnamese software agencies and tech partners
  • Technology workshops for boards and C-level teams

How we work, in 4 steps

01

Start with business goals

Cost, efficiency, growth and customer satisfaction decide what we build first.

02

Data before tools

Stakeholder workshops map your data flows, which then shape process design and integration.

03

Build, test, evolve

We launch fast with modular and low-code tools, then improve based on your team's feedback.

04

Stay on call

A technical team monitors your systems, answers questions and updates workflows as you grow.

Industries we have delivered in

Our team has designed and built management platforms across 13 industries, so we arrive knowing how your sector runs.

Logistics

First-mile and last-mile delivery platforms.

eCommerce

Content management, order processing and omni-channel fulfilment.

Retail

ERP systems for convenience store operations.

Education technology

Learning management, student information systems and CRM.

Sharing economy

Ride-hailing, service booking and delivery platforms.

Tourism

Booking systems and online travel agency platforms.

Investment

Fund management platforms and technical due diligence.

Property technology

Smart building and facility management systems.

Advertising

Out-of-home advertising hardware.

Blockchain

Web3 platforms, token and NFT projects.

Artificial intelligence

Custom AI agents for workflow automation.

IoT

Prototypes and devices for agriculture and manufacturing.

Energy

Thermal energy storage and energy management.

Who you work with

Kent Nguyen, our founder, has spent 25+ years building and scaling technology at startups and enterprises, including teams later acquired by Grab. He leads every fractional CTO engagement, backed by our engineers and AI agents in Ho Chi Minh City. More about us →

Strategic advisory

A CTO for a fraction of the cost

Retainers run $3K to $15K a month, with a 3-month minimum and 15 to 20 hours of senior time each month. Short audits and one-off due diligence are scoped separately.

Talk to us about your roadmap Not ready for a retainer? Start with a Lean Tech Audit.