What It Does

SolidMatics provides fractional CTO services for startups and SaaS companies that need hands-on engineering leadership without the full-time cost. Unlike traditional advisory services that deliver slide decks and disappear, SolidMatics embeds a fractional CTO directly into your team to make architecture decisions, hire developers, and drive execution until your product ships.

Who It's For

This service is built for bootstrapped or early-funded founders who need both technical leadership and the team to execute. It's ideal for companies building their first MVP, hiring their first engineering team, or struggling with existing developers who aren't delivering. It's also a strong fit for founders who've become the bottleneck for every technical decision or who need AI capabilities built into their product by experienced practitioners.

Key Features & Capabilities

• Hands-On CTO Leadership: Makes architecture calls, manages vendor selection, leads infrastructure decisions, and stays accountable for results
• Team Building: Writes job descriptions, runs interviews, and onboards engineering hires
• SolidPulse™ Technical Health Score: Automated scanning combined with structured interviews that produce a 0-100 score measuring your engineering organization's actual state
• AI Implementation: Ships LLM products, pre-training pipelines, and AI agents with production-grade guardrails
• Security & Infrastructure: AWS-certified team conducts audits on access, backups, and infrastructure, then leads remediation
• Fundraising Support: Sits on investor due diligence calls to answer technical questions about stack, security, and team

Typical Use Cases

Common engagement scenarios include: launching an MVP without an internal CTO, making first engineering hires, turning around underperforming teams, removing the founder as a technical bottleneck, aligning product and engineering roadmaps, integrating AI features, addressing security and data risk, and preparing for technical due diligence during fundraising.

What Makes It Different

SolidMatics operates at 15-40% of the cost of a full-time US-based CTO ($250K-$440K all-in) and starts within two weeks instead of the typical three-to-six-month executive search. The team is actively building—running engineering and product at an AI startup today—so technical decisions are informed by current, hands-on experience rather than outdated playbooks. Engagements include both strategy and execution, with the fractional CTO embedded until your team can operate independently.