Your Technical Co-Founder, On Demand

Founders & Startups

Navigate the Technical Journey with Confidence

As a founder, you have the vision. We provide the technical expertise to bring it to life. Whether you're a non-technical founder or a technical leader who needs senior guidance, we're your trusted advisor at every stage.

The Challenge

Building Technology Without a Technical Co-Founder

Starting a business is challenging enough. Being a founder can feel isolating, especially when navigating critical technology decisions that will shape your company's future. You have a unique understanding of your startup's goals, but may lack the technical support to execute confidently.

Non-technical founders face unique challenges: Finding reliable development partners, making architectural decisions, hiring the right technical talent, and avoiding costly technical debt—all while maintaining focus on product-market fit and customer acquisition.

The cost of getting it wrong is high: wasted resources on the wrong tech stack, poor vendor relationships, failed product launches, and missed market opportunities.

Our Solution

Expert Technical Leadership, Flexible and Affordable

We provide experienced fractional CTO services specifically designed for startup founders. Our team of technical leaders becomes your trusted advisor, helping you make informed decisions, build the right team, and create technology that scales with your business.

Think of us as your technical co-founder—available when you need us, with the flexibility to scale up or down as your needs evolve.

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Development Shop Vetting

We evaluate and select the right development partners for your budget, timeline, and technical requirements—saving you months of trial and error.

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Process & Tools Setup

Implement efficient development workflows, project management systems, and quality assurance processes that ensure your team delivers consistently.

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Vendor Relationship Management

Act as your technical liaison with development shops, ensuring clear communication, realistic timelines, and high-quality deliverables.

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Technical Recruitment

Screen candidates, conduct technical interviews, and help you hire your first engineering hires with confidence—avoiding costly mis-hires.

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Technology Strategy

Develop a technology roadmap aligned with your business goals, prioritizing features that drive customer value and revenue.

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Strategic Sounding Board

Get honest, experienced feedback on your ideas, challenges, and critical technology decisions—a trusted advisor in your corner.

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Architecture & Technical Decisions

Make informed choices about technology stacks, infrastructure, security, and scalability—building a foundation that grows with you.

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Technical-Business Alignment

Bridge the gap between your business vision and technical execution, ensuring your technology team understands and supports company objectives.

Most Popular Services for Startups

Founder Advocacy

You are a founder and need someone to help you with the technical side of your business. It's too early to hire full-time employees, so you're working with a dev shop or a freelancer.

We can help find and vet the right dev shop for your needs, ensure they're working on things that matter while producing quality output, and help manage the relationship. We'll also help you avoid the many pitfalls of working with dev shops and help you with your first tech hires when the time is right.

Fractional CTO

A part-time CTO who will work with you to understand your technology needs and create a strategy and implementation plan so your company can meet its goals and objectives.

Using our Fractional CTO service will grant you access to Wilder Innovation's collective leadership experience and capabilities, giving you more value than a full-time CTO for a fraction of the cost and without any risk.

Solution Design

You wouldn't construct your house on shaky ground, so why wouldn't you also want to build your business on a solid foundation? We can help you design your solution to ensure it's built to last.

Designs include architecture and data structure designs, reviews, and coding standards by experienced architects to help keep the code manageable, scalable, and more accessible to new developers.

Technical Recruitment

Hire a CTO to recruit the right level of talent for your needs, advise on your team composition, and handle the entire hiring process, including vetting the candidates through a well-established but tailored technical assessment.

Our team has had a tremendous hiring record, and we are confident that we will find the right individuals to bring your vision to life.

Ready to Build Your Technical Foundation?

Schedule a free 30-minute consultation to discuss your startup's technical challenges and explore how our fractional CTO services can accelerate your growth.

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No sales pitch. Just an honest conversation about your needs.