An experienced technical sounding board.
Work through architecture, AI choices, product trade-offs, and difficult engineering problems with Alex. Your team carries the decisions into delivery.
ALEX RAUD / TECHNICAL LEADERSHIPFractional CTO leadership.
Fractional CTO leadership.
A team to build.
Make the technical decisions that move your business forward. Alex Raud can advise you, lead engineering as your fractional or full-time CTO, and bring a SVITS team to build alongside you.
CHOOSE THE INVOLVEMENT YOU NEED
Advice, ongoing leadership, or a CTO in the business.
The right role depends on the decisions ahead and who will carry them through. Agree the responsibilities around your product, stage, and existing team.
Ongoing technical ownership.
Bring Alex into product planning, architecture, engineering priorities, and team building on a part-time basis, with responsibilities agreed around your needs.
Leadership inside your company.
Discuss a full-time CTO role when your business needs someone leading the engineering function and working with the team every day.
LEADERSHIP AND PEOPLE
Explore engineering specialties
Build on the team you have.
A CTO engagement can work with your current engineers, a SVITS team, or a combination of both.
CHOOSE THE SUPPORT YOU NEED
Advisor / CTOTechnical leadership
Advisor / CTOEngineering teamUnder your leadership
Engineering teamLeadership + teamAlex and SVITS engineers
Your team, with Alex.
Keep the engineers and product knowledge already inside your business. Alex helps connect business goals, technical direction, and the team’s work.
Alex and a SVITS team.
Combine technical leadership with application, AI, data, platform, and security specialists. Agree who owns decisions, delivery, and day-to-day coordination.
Engineers under your leadership.
If you already have a CTO, engage individual SVITS engineers or a team under your own technical leadership. Our specialists support each other with reusable engineering experience, while client information stays within its project.
HOW WE START
Start with the decisions in front of you.
The first discussion establishes where Alex can help and what the engineering team needs.
Understand the business.
Discuss the product, users, current stage, and decisions you need to make.
Review the starting point.
Look at the architecture, existing team, constraints, and technical risks.
Agree the role.
Define responsibilities, priorities, involvement, and the engineers needed.
Lead and build.
Connect technical decisions to delivery, review progress, and adjust priorities.
SELECTED WORK
Leadership carried through to products.
Alex’s product direction and team building are part of the same story as the engineering work.
ADVISOR → ACTING CTO
io.net 🦄
Alex guided io.net from idea through ICO to unicorn status, building its technical organization through SVITS.
Explore the project CTO / SVITS TEAMPGxCare / pgx.ai
Alex led architecture and development as CTO; SVITS built the pharmacogenomics platform from scratch.
Explore the project COFOUNDER & CTO / SVITS TEAMBenehab
Alex’s architecture and product direction, with SVITS engineers building and running the behavioral-health platform.
Explore the projectWORKING WITH SVITS
Choosing technical leadership.
Direct answers about the role, the team, and getting started.
What does a fractional CTO do?
A fractional CTO provides ongoing technical leadership on a part-time basis. At SVITS, Alex can work on product direction, architecture, engineering priorities, and team building. The scope and responsibility are agreed for your business.
How is an advisor different from a fractional CTO?
An advisor helps you work through decisions and technical questions. A fractional CTO takes an ongoing leadership role in engineering. A full-time CTO leads the function as a full-time member of your business.
Can Alex work with our existing developers?
Yes. Alex can lead or advise your existing engineers. You can add SVITS specialists where needed, or keep delivery entirely with your current team.
Can we engage the engineers without hiring Alex as CTO?
Yes. SVITS engineers can work under your technical leadership individually or as a team. Alex’s advisory or CTO involvement is a separate choice.
What determines the cost and level of involvement?
The scope of responsibility, product stage, technical complexity, existing team, and amount of ongoing involvement shape the engagement. We discuss those inputs before proposing the role and commercial terms.
What should we bring to the first conversation?
Describe the business goal, what already exists, the people involved, and the decisions or delivery problems ahead. A finished technical specification is not required.
START WITH YOUR BUSINESS GOAL
What does your next stage need?
Tell us where you are, what you want to build, and where technical leadership would help.
Discuss technical leadership