Hire the technical leadership before you hire the team.
You have funding, a roadmap, and nobody senior who owns the technology. CTO as a Service puts an experienced technology executive inside your leadership team — strategy, architecture, hiring and delivery — without a full-time hire. I am in Munich for all three days.
I reply between sessions — usually within the hour during the event.
The offer
CTO as a Service
Embed a seasoned technology executive into your leadership team without the burn of a full-time hire. We set technical strategy, hire and mentor engineering teams, run board-level reviews, and own the roadmap from architecture to delivery.
Technical due diligence for fundraising and M&A
Architecture, hiring plan, and 12-month roadmap
Vendor and contract negotiation on your behalf
Quarterly board reporting in investor-ready format
The evidence
One client, four systems, three years.
The fastest way to judge a fractional CTO is the delivery record. We have been Kekz’s engineering partner since 2023 — four workstreams spanning firmware, cloud, logistics and finance, each one still running.
Kekz·2023 — present
Kekz connected headphones platform
End-to-end engineering partner
Kekz ships audio headphones for children paired with a plush storytelling bear. We built the device-management platform that pairs the hardware to the customer, provisions audio content, handles OTA firmware updates, and powers the parent-facing companion experience.
Kekz·2024 — present
Offline-to-online connectivity device
Hardware + firmware partner
A small Wi-Fi bridge that gives legacy offline Kekz devices an online presence — for analytics, content sync, and remote parental controls. We designed the firmware, provisioning flow, and the cloud-side device registry, with packaging designed for non-technical parents to install at the kitchen table.
Kekz·2023 — present
Order distribution & delivery management
Product & platform engineering
A logistics control plane that takes thousands of weekly Shopify orders, routes them across European 3PLs based on SLA and stock location, and gives operations a single console for exceptions. This work eventually became the seed of our Operations Manager product.
Kekz·2024 — present
Comprehensive ERP & financial controls
Solutions architecture + delivery
A bespoke ERP and financial controls layer that consolidates orders, costs, taxes, and supplier payments into one source of truth — replacing a patchwork of spreadsheets and third-party tools that no longer scaled with the business.
We also build and operate our own products — the same standard, applied to our own P&L instead of a client’s. They are not the pitch today, but they are the evidence that we ship.