Build your startup
with senior engineering
leadership.
Early-stage startups fail from poor engineering decisions, not lack of ideas. Foundry embeds CTO-level technical leadership into your startup — without the full-time hire.
Our team has worked with
engineering experience
per quarter
tailored to your stage
on Fractional CTO
The problem
Most startups don't fail
from bad ideas. They fail
from bad engineering.
Founders with strong domain expertise and real product vision lose months and capital to avoidable technical mistakes — wrong hires, unscalable architecture, agencies that build and disappear.
"We spent $80K on an agency. Six months later, we had a product we couldn't scale and a codebase nobody wanted to touch."
— A founder we spoke to. Not a rare story.
Hiring the wrong developers
Without technical leadership, founders hire on CV and hope for the best. The wrong early hires set the trajectory for everything that follows.
Agency-built systems with no future
Agencies optimise for delivery, not longevity. The product ships, the agency leaves, and you're left with something nobody wants to maintain.
MVPs that can't scale
Speed-to-market matters, but an MVP built without architectural foresight becomes a liability the moment traction arrives.
No technical decision-maker in the room
Every product decision has a technical dimension. Without a senior engineer at the table, those decisions get made by default, not by design.
How it works
A structured path from
first call to execution.
Every engagement starts the same way — a free conversation. From there, we qualify, diagnose, and route you into the right track for your situation.
Free Intro Call
30 minutes. We understand your product, your stage, and whether there's a fit. No consulting, no pitch — just a real conversation.
Technical Audit
Qualified founders receive a free high-level diagnostic. We review architecture, stack decisions, team structure, and surface any major risks.
Track Selection
Based on your situation, we define the right engagement — Fractional CTO, Foundational Build, Tech Rescue, or AI Enablement. Scope and terms are set before we begin.
Structured Execution
We begin working with your team. Defined milestones, regular checkpoints, and clear accountability from day one.
Engagement tracks
Four tracks. One right
fit for your situation.
Engineering
Leadership Track
For startups that have developers but lack the technical leadership layer. We step in as your fractional CTO and run engineering from the top.
Funded startups with 1–5 developers, no CTO, and an active product roadmap.
30-day deliverables + 14-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime after.
Foundational
Build Track
For founders starting from scratch or rebuilding. We design the architecture, set up the engineering systems, oversee the build, and deliver a launch-ready product.
Pre-product founders who need to build their first version on a solid technical foundation.
If the agreed launch milestone isn't hit on time, we continue at no additional cost.
Tech
Rescue Track
For startups that already built something but it's broken, unstable, or unscalable. We assess, stabilise, and rebuild the foundation without scrapping everything.
Startups with agency-built MVPs, scalability problems, or infrastructure that's blocking growth.
If the agreed stabilisation outcome isn't achieved, we continue at no additional cost.
AI
Enablement Track
Make your product AI-native — MCP development, agent-ready documentation, AI-first UX, and production AI features — built by the same team that deploys enterprise AI systems.
Founders who need their product discoverable and usable by AI agents, with real AI capabilities — not bolted-on demos.
Modular engagement — scope one or all four AI enablement areas. Terms defined before work begins.
The team
Builders who've been on
both sides of the table.
A serial builder with multiple startups shipped and deep, hands-on AI and agent engineering experience. Has seen the gap firsthand - mid-market companies with real AI budgets and no trusted partner to actually build what they need. Combines startup execution speed with production-grade engineering standards.
30+ years inside the world's most demanding technology environments - IBM, Morgan Stanley, PepsiCo, Northwestern Mutual, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. Knows what breaks at scale, what decisions age badly, and what it takes to build systems that last. Brings enterprise-grade architecture thinking to every engagement.
Most advisors give you
fast or scalable.
We give you both.
Enterprise experience taught us what breaks at scale. Startup execution experience taught us how to move fast without breaking things that matter. That combination is what makes the difference between an MVP you build once and one you rebuild twice.
Case studies
Products we've
designed and built.
Brain Compass
We replaced paper-based cognitive screening with an AI-first workflow: voice-guided steps for elderly patients and consistent, clinically defensible scoring for doctors.
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Medulla
We rebuilt a trusted emergency documentation tool into a fast web + cloud platform, preserving doctor workflows while upgrading speed, clarity, and security.
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Back to You (B2Y)
We built an AI-first platform that takes people from concern to care: guided risk assessment, recommendations, booking and payments—delivered with WhatsApp parity.
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We remove the founder's
biggest fear: wasted capital.
Try it for 14 days. If it's not working, we refund your first month.
Every Fractional CTO engagement comes with a 14-day full refund window. No conditions, no questions. After that, cancel anytime — no minimum commitment.
Engineering roadmap delivered within 30 days
Development workflow and tooling set up within 30 days
Cancel after month one with zero penalty
We don't stop until the product ships.
If the agreed product launch milestone isn't hit within the defined timeline, we continue working until it is — at no additional cost to you.
Stabilisation delivered or we keep working.
If the technical stabilisation outcome defined at the start of the engagement isn't achieved, we continue until the problem is fully resolved.
Ready to build
something that lasts?
We take on five engagements per quarter. If you're building a SaaS, AI, or platform startup and need technical leadership, book a free 30-minute intro call. No pitch, no commitment — just a real conversation about your product.
Free 30-minute intro call
We understand your startup and current setup
Free technical audit
Qualified founders receive a no-cost diagnostic
Right track, right terms
We define scope and milestones before work begins