Advisory
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire. The judgment of an experienced CTO — on your team, at a fraction of the cost.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership without a full-time hire.
A full-time CTO costs $250k+ and takes six months to find. A fractional CTO from nthreads joins next week: setting technical direction, making architecture decisions, hiring and mentoring engineers, and keeping vendors honest — for the hours you actually need.
Typical engagements run 1–3 days per week, scaling up around launches and fundraises and down during steady state.
- Technical strategy and roadmap ownership
- Architecture and build-vs-buy decisions
- Engineering hiring, mentoring, and team design
- Vendor and outsourcing oversight
- Investor-ready technical narratives and due diligence prep
Technical Guidance & Reviews
Independent, senior answers to your hardest technical questions.
Sometimes you don't need a build — you need an honest expert opinion. Architecture reviews, codebase audits, technology selection, and second opinions on big technical bets, delivered as clear recommendations you can act on.
- Architecture and codebase reviews
- Technology and platform selection
- Technical due diligence (buy-side and sell-side)
- Rescue assessments for struggling projects
When founders bring us in
Pre-CTO startups
You're raising or building your first product and need someone technical in the room — for architecture calls, hiring, and investor questions.
Scaling teams
Your dev team is growing but decisions are drifting. We install the technical leadership layer that keeps velocity and quality aligned.
Non-technical leadership
You run the business; technology runs away from you. We translate, prioritize, and own the technical outcomes end to end.