Startup confidential

Fractional CTO & Product Team for Early‑Stage Startups

Startup Confidential provides fractional CTO services and a small senior engineering pod for Seed–Series B content, community, and SaaS startups—so you can ship real products and AI‑powered features without hiring a full‑time CTO.

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You need startup tech leadership that actually understands early‑stage constraints

A fractional CTO for startups, not just another vendor.

❌ You’ve got traction—a newsletter, editorial, community, or SaaS—but your platform is fragile or stuck.❌ Traditional dev agencies overpromise, overcharge, and leave you with spaghetti code.❌ Hiring a full‑time CTO and a whole engineering team is too slow and too expensive at Seed or Series A.

What Startup Confidential Is

Startup Confidential = Fractional CTO + Senior Product/Engineering Pod. Strategic tech leadership and a small team that ships.🧠 Fractional CTO for Seed–Series BPart‑time chief technology officer for your startup: product and tech roadmap, AI powered features, architecture, technical decision‑making, and hands‑on guidance from Seed through Series B.💻 Product & Platform Builds (Web & Mobile)Design and build content and community platforms: editorial sites, forums, memberships, exhibitions, marketplaces, and SaaS dashboards—with AI‑driven workflows and LLM integrations where they actually move the needle.🧑‍💻 Hiring & Coaching Your Engineering TeamHelp you hire your first engineers, set up processes, and coach existing devs so you’re not dependent on agencies forever. Think “CTO as a service” plus recruiting and onboarding support.Built for early‑stage startups that need fractional tech leadership and real execution, not a slide deck.

AI‑Driven Development Workflows for Startups

Early‑stage teams don’t just need code—they need a fractional CTO who understands AI‑driven development workflows and LLM‑powered products.⚙️ AI‑Assisted Development Process
We bake AI‑assisted software development into our work: code generation, test generation, auto‑documentation, and code review using modern LLM tools to ship faster and with fewer bugs.🤖 LLM‑Powered Product Features
For content, community, and SaaS startups, we design and implement LLM‑powered features—recommendation engines, smart search, content summarization, and AI‑driven moderation—without overbuilding custom ML infrastructure.🧭 AI Strategy, Not Just AI Hype
As your fractional CTO, we help you decide where AI actually belongs in your product, plan an AI roadmap, validate data readiness, and avoid wasting runway on the wrong models or workflows.

What You Get Working with a Fractional CTO

✅ A clear 6–12 month product and technology roadmap aligned with your fundraising and growth goals.
✅ A platform that actually ships—fast, reliable, and ready for users, not just a slide in your pitch deck.
✅ Technical leadership for investor due diligence, board conversations, and hiring your first in‑house engineers.You get senior startup tech leadership and execution without committing to a full‑time CTO too early.

Built for founders who already have something working, and need the tech leadership and team to make it real at scale.

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(Tell me about your startup. I’ll tell you if I can help—or point you to someone who can.)