Your technology partner (fractional CTO)_

A CTO’s judgement, a whole team’s hands

Most founders and growing companies face the same gap. The business depends on software, but nobody senior owns it. Hiring a full-time CTO is slow and expensive, a freelancer can only cover so much, and an agency on a fixed project leaves when the invoice is paid.

A technology partner closes that gap. You get a senior lead who sits on your side of the table, makes the technical calls and answers for them, plus designers, developers and QA who build what was decided. We act as your elite technology partner, moving beyond generic, off-the-shelf products, and we stay for as long as it helps.

From first idea to more than 80 branches: ibon

ibon is a platform for managing and monitoring companies in the food industry: real-time inventory tracking, production lifecycle management and strict regulatory compliance. We have been involved from its initial idea. In the words of our use case: “As CTOs, we’ve handled every aspect, overseeing the technology and development.”

The results are on the record. The ibon system has been used by over 80 Aroma branches, and for the last 3.5 years Aroma has implemented ibon in every new branch it has built. DevDino is still actively used as ibon’s CTO. That is what a technology partnership looks like when it works: one team carrying a product from idea to scale, and staying.

Over five years with Keshet

Keshet 12 is Israel’s biggest broadcasting channel, and we have worked with them for over five years. OnePager is deep software development we did, and still do, for Keshet 12, letting them control, edit and publish content efficiently. Along the way the work has covered a live COVID-19 data dashboard (Corona N12), the real-time elections site, mobile games such as Brain 12 and an AR game for Israel Ninja Warrior. Read the Keshet story.

Long partnerships like this are built on boring virtues: answering the phone during peak hours, keeping old systems healthy while building new ones, and knowing the codebase better than anyone.

The tech backbone behind a new product

For Car Pay, a platform that makes buying and selling a car safer from fraud, we are the development team behind a solution built from the ground up, and its tech backbone. Startups need exactly this: someone to design the system, build it, and keep it secure and reliable as real money flows through it.

When a fractional CTO is the right call

A fractional CTO is usually a good fit when:

• you are a founder turning an idea into a first product and need someone to make the technical decisions with you;
• you have developers but nobody senior owning architecture, security and the roadmap;
• a previous agency or freelancer has left, and you need someone to audit and take over;
• you are about to make a big platform, vendor or AI decision and want an independent view.

It is usually not the right fit if you already have a strong in-house CTO; in that case, our custom software development team can add capacity under their lead instead.

What to look for in a technology partner

Ask any candidate: Who exactly will be our tech lead, and will that person stay? Do you also build, or only advise? How will decisions be documented? Who owns the code and the accounts? How do you hand over when we hire in-house?

Our answers: a named senior lead, a team that builds, written decisions, full ownership on your side, and a clean handover whenever you are ready. With offices in Toronto and Tel Aviv, your product gets attention across two time zones (read more about our Toronto and Tel Aviv team). Planning a new product? Start with before you build an app, and if AI is on your roadmap, see AI implementation.

We may be dinosaurs, but we have survived every extinction event this industry has thrown at us. Tell us where your product is today, and we will tell you honestly how we can help.