Fractional CTO · remote, France and across Europe
Every SME needs a solid information system. Few can afford the €120,000-a-year technical director that comes with it. I take on that role for you, part time, with 20 years in the trade.
Free and to the point: you leave with an honest opinion, not a sales pitch. I deliberately keep my client list short, so each one gets proper attention.These are not technical problems. They are leadership problems. That is what a CTO is for, and in an SME that role doesn't justify a full-time hire.
A fractional CTO is an experienced technical director who takes on the CTO role in a company on a part-time, shared basis: there every week, hands-on when it matters, without the cost or the hiring process of a full-time position. Part-time, on-demand or outsourced CTO: the label changes depending on who is talking, the role does not.
At a distribution company of around a hundred people: three employees spent 18 days a month consolidating reports by hand. Automated.
For an e-commerce business: a custom application won them a contract their competitors couldn't serve.
Of manual data entry removed at that same distributor, for 24 hours of work. The money was sitting there in plain sight.
Real numbers, real clients, over the long run. I'll walk you through them, with the full context.
You already have developers or a vendor, but nobody to make the calls.
Flat monthly fee: €2,000.
Talk it through, 30 minutesTechnology is critical to your business, and nobody is steering it.
Flat monthly fee: €4,000.
Talk it through, 30 minutesThe terms are simple. You are buying a role and results, not a volume of hours: I don't bill by the day, and you don't count my days.
Any new project is quoted separately, before it starts: the retainer never moves mid-course. And I deliberately limit the number of clients I work with at any one time, which is what keeps me genuinely available for each of them.
Dominique Thomas. 20 years of software development, 10 years on Laravel, with the official Laravel certification to match. Currently CTO of a healthcare company, after building systems that handle millions of euros in sales for SMEs like yours.
I have worked remotely for 10 years, across France and Europe. You are not talking to an agency or a salesperson: you are talking to the person who will make the decisions with you. My background, references and the results achieved for my clients are on my LinkedIn profile.
We talk about your situation, not mine. You leave with an honest opinion, even if we never work together.
The role, the rhythm, the price. One page, not a forty-page contract.
First session within two weeks. At any point, you know what has been decided, what is in progress, and why.
A flat monthly fee: €2,000 for technical leadership, €4,000 for the full fractional CTO role. A fraction of the cost of a salaried CTO, for the whole of the experience. If that budget is out of reach today, I'd rather save you time by saying so right here.
At SME scale, a full-time CTO costs over €120,000 a year, takes six to nine months to hire, and is often bored within a year. What you actually need is sound decisions, made regularly, by someone who has already seen your problems elsewhere. It's a role, not a position.
Because counting days encourages selling more of them. You are not buying my time, you are buying a responsibility: that your technology is properly steered. The price stays the same whether the month was calm or hectic, and you know exactly what it costs you.
I have worked this way for 10 years, including in my current CTO role. Sessions happen over video, decisions are written down and traceable. An on-site visit gets scheduled when it genuinely adds something.
So do most of my clients, and that's a good thing: I don't replace anyone. I make sure they deliver better, that quotes are fair, and that you no longer depend on a single person.
Short notice period, and above all: no dependency built in. Decisions are documented, the access belongs to you, everything is reversible. That is also what doing the job properly means.
30 minutes to see whether a part-time CTO is what you need. If it isn't, I will tell you.
Book 30 minutes Or message me on LinkedIn.