A Fractional CTO is a senior technology leader who works with your startup part-time, providing the strategic direction, technical decision-making, and engineering oversight you need without the cost of a full-time hire. OK200's Fractional CTO services are led by our Founder, a Melbourne-based industry expert with decades of experience guiding non-technical founders from idea through to launch.
Most Melbourne fractional CTOs stop at advice. We don't. Once the strategy is set, the same team carries it through to scoping, design, and build. One in-house team, from first conversation to live product.
Book a discovery callFor startups, employing a full-time CTO can be a substantial financial burden. A Fractional CTO provides the expertise you need at a fraction of the cost.
A Fractional CTO adapts to your company's evolving needs, seamlessly adjusting their services as the situation demands. This flexibility empowers you to navigate the ebbs and flows of the startup journey with a bit more ease.
Our Fractional CTO has worked across pre-seed startups and scale-ups, covering architecture, vendor selection, hiring, code review, and the unglamorous engineering decisions that quietly determine whether a product can scale.
A Fractional CTO drives innovation, identifies avenues for technological advancement, crafts a technology roadmap, and ensures that your tech strategy aligns with your business goals.
Having a Fractional CTO onboard can significantly enhance your startup's appeal to potential investors. It demonstrates a commitment to robust technology leadership, increasing confidence in your startup's potential for growth and success.
We are based in Richmond and most of our clients are in Melbourne, but the work does not depend on being in the same room. We run fractional CTO engagements with founders in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth on the same basis: regular sessions, decisions documented, and someone accountable for the technical direction between them.
Engagements scale to what you need, from a couple of days a month keeping the plan honest, through to hands-on involvement across a live build. If you want the numbers before you talk to anyone, we have written up what a fractional CTO actually costs in Australia.
Get in touch and we will tell you honestly whether you need a fractional CTO yet.
Sets the technical direction, makes the architecture and vendor calls, oversees whoever is writing the code, and translates all of it for your board and your investors. The same job as a full-time CTO, at the fraction of the week you actually need.
Fractional CTO engagements in Australia typically run from a few thousand dollars a month for light advisory up to five figures for hands-on involvement across a live build. It scales with how much of the week you need, which is the point.
Usually when you are about to spend real money on a build and nobody in the room can tell whether the plan is sound. That is the moment where a few weeks of senior input saves you a rebuild later.
Both, and that is the difference. Most fractional CTOs stop at advice. Once the strategy is set, the same in-house team carries it through scoping, design and build.