Technology assessment report
Written report · board-ready- When
- At the end of the assessment
- Timeline
- 2-3 weeks on a due diligence scope
- Used for
- Investor or board review, and deciding what to fix first
Fractional CTO · Available This Week
Fractional CTO ServicesSenior Technical Leadership · On Your Terms
ArchitectureEngineering HiringVendor DecisionsBoard Reporting
Engage a Miracuves fractional CTO for architecture decisions, engineering hiring, vendor evaluation, and roadmap ownership - senior technical leadership without a full-time executive salary or 6-month search. Every engagement starts with a written technology assessment: findings ranked by risk and a phased roadmap your board can read. The CTO then stays to lead the work, with direct access and a monthly report.
- Interview Before Start
- NDA Day One
- Month-to-Month Terms
- 2-Week Replacement
$1,499/moPart-time, 20 hrs/week
$3,299/moFull-time, 40 hrs/week
2-3 WeeksFixed-scope due diligence
2 WeeksNotice, no lock-in
Fractional CTO available this week
- Board-ReadyInvestor-grade reporting
- Part or FullFlexible engagement
- Hiring SupportSpecs, interviews, offers
- 2-3 WeeksFixed-scope due diligence
- No SearchSkip 6-month hire
Interview Before Start
You meet and approve every match
Scope in Writing
Hours and deliverables fixed
NDA Day One
Signed before details shared
Direct Access
No account manager relay
Monthly Board Report
Plain language, not jargon
Flexible Exit
2 weeks notice, no lock-in
More than 6,000+ Companies Trust us Worldwide
In short
A Miracuves fractional CTO gives a company senior technical leadership without a full-time executive hire: architecture decisions, engineering hiring, vendor choices, technical due diligence and board reporting. Every engagement starts with a written assessment and a phased roadmap. Part-time is $1,499 a month for 20 hours a week and full-time $3,299 a month, month-to-month with two weeks' notice. Miracuves is based in Mumbai and works remotely.
What This Engagement Delivers
What a fractional CTO does for your company
A Miracuves fractional CTO provides senior technical leadership on a part-time or project basis - architecture reviews, engineering hiring, vendor selection, security posture, and roadmap prioritization. They join your leadership conversations and your engineering reality, making decisions and being accountable for them rather than presenting recommendations and leaving.
This is not a consultant who delivers a slide deck and disappears. Your fractional CTO makes decisions, unblocks engineering, and stays accountable for outcomes across the engagement. This is the wrong engagement if you need a full-time executive present daily, or if what you actually want is delivery capacity rather than technical judgement. When that is the case we tell you before you sign, and point you to a software development engagement or our clone solutions catalog, where Miracuves owns the build rather than the advice.
- Owns technical roadmap and architecture decisions
- Runs engineering hiring: job specs, interviews, and offers
- Evaluates vendors, stacks, and build-vs-buy tradeoffs
- Prepares board-ready technical updates and due diligence
- Mentors your existing engineers and raises the bar
9,000+Projects delivered
3,900+Apps published by Miracuves
90+Ready-made solutions to start from
6 daysReady-made clone delivery
2-8wMiracuves custom build timelines
100%Source code ownership
Architecture & platformDecisions with the reasoning kept
Engineering hiringSpecs, interview loops, offers
Board & investorsTechnical risk in plain terms
A fractional CTO who becomes indispensable has failed. The job includes documenting decisions and building a team that keeps functioning once the engagement ends.
Deliverables
What an engagement puts in your hands
Three documents, written so a founder, a board member and an engineer can each act on them. They are the proof that the advice was more than conversation.
Phased roadmap
Planning document · owners and order- When
- With the findings
- Timeline
- Carried out month-to-month
- Used for
- Running the remediation and the next hires
Architecture review
Technical review · engineer-ready- When
- Inside the assessment
- Timeline
- 10 days in the example engagement
- Used for
- Deciding what to keep, rebuild or replace
These are the standard documents every engagement produces. Samples are shared under NDA once you brief us.
Honest Comparison
Fractional CTO vs consultant vs full-time hire - an honest comparison
Founders who need technical leadership usually weigh three options: bring in a consultant, hire a full-time CTO, or engage a fractional one. Each suits a different stage. Boards and co-founders use this table to see what each option decides, costs and leaves behind when it ends.
MetricFive things that decide cost, speed and reach
Miracuves
Fractional CTO
Part or full time, month-to-month
Strategy consultant
A report, then handover
Full-time CTO hire
An executive on payroll
01Who makes the decisions
The CTO, accountablyJoins leadership meetings and owns the outcome
You, after the reportRecommendations your team has to carry out
The CTO, dailyFull authority and full-time presence
02Time to start
Under a week, typicallyTerms confirmed before you commit
After scopingA proposal and statement of work first
MonthsAn executive search often takes six
03Cost
Published monthly rates$1,499/mo part-time, $3,299/mo full-time
Day rate or project feeQuoted per engagement
Salary, equity, benefitsPlus the cost of the search
04Hiring the team
Runs itJob specs, interview loops and offers
Advises on itOrg design; the hiring stays with you
Runs itOnce they are in the seat
05When it ends
2 weeks' noticeDecisions documented for whoever follows
When the report landsFollow-up is a new engagement
Resignation or exitKnowledge leaves unless it was written down
Engage a fractional CTO if…
Your technical decisions are consequential but a full-time executive is not yet justified: a raise needs technical due diligence, the first engineers need hiring, or a vendor proposal needs reading properly.
Choose something else if…
You need a full-time executive present every day (hire one, and use an interim CTO to bridge the search), or you need delivery capacity rather than judgement. For a full product build rather than leadership, see our 90+ solutions and vertical pages.
CTO guide
Engaging a fractional CTO: what to know first
The questions founders and boards ask before they bring in part-time technical leadership, answered plainly, including when it is the wrong choice.
What does a fractional CTO actually do week to week?
Most weeks follow the same rhythm: a leadership meeting with the founders, a review with the engineering leads, and time set aside for whatever decision is blocking progress. That might be choosing between two cloud setups, reading a vendor proposal, interviewing a senior engineer or unpicking why releases keep slipping.
Between meetings the CTO writes. Decisions are recorded with the reasoning behind them, the roadmap is kept current, and once a month the board gets a plain-language report on risk, progress and what changes next. The hours are fixed in the engagement letter, so the time is spent on decisions rather than open-ended office hours.
Fractional, interim or full-time CTO: which does a company need?
A fractional CTO works part of the week and suits companies whose technical decisions matter but whose size does not yet justify an executive salary. An interim CTO works full time for a fixed period, usually while a permanent CTO is being found or after one leaves suddenly.
A full-time CTO is the right answer once engineering is large enough to need a leader every day, or when the product itself is deep technology. Many companies move through all three: fractional first, interim during the search, then a permanent hire who inherits documented decisions instead of a blank page.
When does a startup need a fractional CTO?
The usual triggers are specific. A non-technical founding team is about to spend real money on a build. Investors have asked for technical due diligence. The first engineers need hiring and nobody on the team can judge them. An agency or vendor is delivering and nobody can tell whether the work is sound.
- Before signing a large development contract
- Before a funding round that includes a technical review
- Before the first three to five engineering hires
- When a lead engineer leaves and takes the knowledge with them
What does technical due diligence before a raise cover?
Investors want to know whether the product can carry the plan they are funding. A due diligence review looks at the architecture and where it will strain under growth, the security posture, how code reaches production, who holds critical knowledge or access, and what the vendor and licence commitments cost.
At Miracuves this is a fixed-scope engagement that typically runs two to three weeks. It ends in a written report ranked by risk and a remediation roadmap that a board or investor can read without an engineering background. The findings are stated plainly, including the ones a founder would rather not hear, because investors will find them anyway.
What do the first 30 days of an engagement produce?
The first month is mostly listening and reading. The CTO gets read access to the code, cloud accounts and current roadmap, interviews the founders and team leads, and reviews the architecture, the delivery process and the main vendor contracts.
By the end of that month you should hold three documents: a technology assessment with findings ranked by risk, an architecture review of what to keep, rebuild or replace, and a phased roadmap with owners and a cost range for each phase. Urgent risks, such as missing backups or a single person holding production access, are raised as soon as they are found rather than saved for the report.
How does a fractional CTO engagement end?
Well-run engagements are designed to end. Every engagement is month-to-month with two weeks' notice, and the work is organized so the company keeps functioning once the CTO steps back.
In practice the engagement ends in one of three ways: the roadmap is carried out and the team runs on its own, a permanent CTO is appointed and the fractional CTO helps hire and brief them, or the company grows into a larger build and moves to a delivery engagement. In each case the handover is written down - decisions, access, open risks and the next steps - so nothing depends on one person's memory.
Engagement Method
Six steps every engagement follows, from access to handover
The assessment comes first because advice given before anyone has read the code is guesswork. Each step ends in something written that you keep.
- Step 01
Intake and access
NDA signed, then read access to code, cloud accounts, incident history and the current roadmap.
- Step 02
Assessment
Architecture, delivery, security, the team and vendor contracts reviewed against the plan for the next stage.
- Step 03
Findings by risk
Each finding ranked high, medium or low, with the business impact in plain language.
- Step 04
Roadmap
Findings become phases with an order, a cost range and a named owner.
- Step 05
Execution support
The CTO leads the work: hires, vendor choices and architecture decisions, month-to-month.
- Step 06
Review and handover
Decisions documented and a team that runs without the CTO when the engagement ends.
Engagement Models
Four ways to engage fractional CTO services
Match the depth of leadership to your stage. The engagement letter names the CTO, the hours, the deliverables and the replacement terms before anything starts, whether you need an adviser, an auditor, an interim leader or a CTO directing engineers.
CTO
Advisory
Part-Time CTO
20 hours per week, the Part-Time rate, for ongoing architecture and roadmap ownership.
- Best for: Seed to Series A startups
CTOBEQA
Project
Due Diligence
Fixed-scope technical audit for fundraising or M&A, typically 2-3 weeks.
- Best for: Pre-investment reviews
CTO
Bridge
Interim CTO
Full-time coverage during a CTO search or departure.
- Best for: Leadership transitions
CTO++
Squad
CTO + Engineers
Fractional CTO plus a Miracuves engineering squad under their direction.
- Best for: Building from zero
Review Gates
Review gates on every recommendation
No recommendation reaches you until it clears seven checks. They test the same judgement Miracuves looks for when it vets a CTO: leadership, architecture, hiring, communication, commercial sense, security and a second opinion.
- Owner named - who carries it out, and by whenLeadership
- Architecture tested - checked against real load and constraintsArchitecture
- Team impact - what it asks of the people you have or must hireHiring
- Plain language - readable by a board without a technical backgroundComms
- Costed - build, buy or partner, with the full cost statedStrategy
- Risk stated - security exposure, and whether the decision can be reversedSecurity
- Second senior review - read by another senior Miracuves lead firstReview
What's Included
Every engagement includes this - no add-on tiers
A Seat at the Leadership Table
Joins your leadership meetings and engineering reviews from the first week, with read access to the code, cloud accounts and tools the assessment needs.
Monthly Board Report
A plain-language technical update each month, written for your board and investors: risks, decisions taken and what changes next.
NDA + IP Assignment Day One
Signed before you share a line of code, a vendor contract or a cap table. Every report, diagram and decision record the CTO produces is yours.
Decisions in Writing
Each architecture, hiring and vendor decision is recorded with its reasoning, so whoever inherits it can see why it was made.
Named Accountability
The CTO owns the recommendations they make and stays to carry them out; Miracuves stays accountable for continuity if the engagement changes hands.
2-Week Replacement Guarantee
If the CTO's stage or industry fit is wrong within the first 2 weeks, Miracuves introduces another at no additional cost.
What They Own
What a fractional CTO actually owns
A fractional CTO is worth it when the technical decisions are consequential but do not yet justify a full-time executive salary. The value is judgement, not availability.
Where the technology goes
Architecture and platform choices made deliberately, with the reasoning written down for whoever inherits them.
In scopeBuilding the engineering team
Role definitions, interviewing and calibration, so early hires set the standard rather than the ceiling.
In scopeBuild, buy or partner
Reading proposals properly and knowing what a supplier has left out of the number, which is usually migration and training.
In scopeWhat could stop the business
Security posture, key-person dependency and the systems nobody understands any more, surfaced before they bite.
In scopeTranslating technical into commercial
Explaining constraints and trade-offs to people who need to make funding decisions without a technical background.
In scopeMaking themselves replaceable
Documented decisions and a team that functions without them, because a fractional CTO who becomes indispensable has failed.
In scopeTools & Methods
What your fractional CTO already leads with
No tooling onboarding. They show up fluent.
Ar
ArchitectureSystem design reviews
Aw
AWSCloud strategy
Az
AzureEnterprise cloud
K8
KubernetesContainer orchestration
Tr
TerraformInfrastructure as code
Sn
SentryError monitoring
DD
DatadogObservability
Gh
GitHubEngineering workflow
Ji
JiraRoadmap tracking
Sl
SlackLeadership comms
Fg
FigmaProduct alignment
No
NotionStrategy docs
Lm
LoomBoard walkthroughs
Mi
MiroArchitecture diagrams
Co
ConfluenceTechnical specs
Lk
LinkedInHiring pipeline
How It Starts
From signed NDA to a board-ready roadmap
Most engagements start within a week of agreement. The CTO's name, the hours, the deliverables and the rate are written into the engagement letter before anyone is given access to your code or your numbers.
- Day 0
Brief & NDA
You describe the stage, the product and the decision in front of you. The NDA is signed before any repository, contract or financial detail is shared, and scope, hours and deliverables go into the engagement letter.
- Week 1
Introduction & Access
You meet the proposed CTO and decide; nothing starts without your yes. Read access follows to the repositories, cloud accounts and current roadmap, and founders and team leads are interviewed.
- Weeks 1-3
Assessment
Architecture, delivery process, security posture, the team and vendor contracts are reviewed against what the business plans next. A due diligence audit is fixed-scope and typically runs 2-3 weeks.
- End of review
Findings & Roadmap
Findings are ranked by risk and turned into a phased roadmap with owners and order, presented to the founders and, where needed, the board or investors.
- Ongoing
Lead or Hand Over
Month-to-month with two weeks' notice. The CTO stays to lead the roadmap, directs a Miracuves squad if you need delivery, or hands over to your permanent CTO with every decision documented.
What happens after you say yes
1. Brief and NDA: the decision in front of you, the scope and the hours put in writing. 2. CTO introduction: you meet the proposed CTO and decide. 3. Access and interviews: read access to code, cloud and roadmap agreed, and the first founder and team interviews booked.
Start the briefThe first 72 hours
Transparent Pricing
What fractional CTO services cost
Published rates. No request-a-quote wall.
Part-Time
$1,499 /mo
20 hrs/week · flexible capacity
- 20 hrs/week of CTO time
- Direct access, no account manager
- Monthly board-ready report
- NDA + IP assignment included
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Full-Time
$3,299 /mo
40 hrs/week · technical leadership
- 40 hrs/week of CTO time
- 4+ hour timezone overlap
- Leadership meetings and engineering reviews
- Embedded in your workflow
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
CTO + Squad
Custom
Multi-role squad · scaling
- 3-5 dedicated team members
- Dedicated delivery lead
- Sprint reporting & ownership
- Scales up or down
- Direct access to squad
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Why we publish ratesHidden pricing wastes a founder's time. If part-time leadership is more than you need, or less, we tell you before you sign.
What affects your monthly rate
The rate stays fixed for the agreed hours and scope. If the scope changes materially, Miracuves puts the adjustment in writing before it takes effect.
Typical engagement structures
Part-time ($1,499/mo): 20 hrs/week for advisory, hiring and roadmap ownership.
Full-time ($3,299/mo): 40 hrs/week of technical leadership.
CTO + Squad: custom quote for a CTO plus 3-5 team members with a delivery lead.
Month-to-month with two weeks' notice, or annual terms if you want the rate locked.
Example engagement
What fractional CTO services look like in practice
An illustrative example of a typical project of this kind, with client details anonymized. Figures show what this kind of build targets, not a named client's results.
A Series A SaaS company needed technical due diligence before term sheet - architecture audit, scaling risk assessment, and a board-ready remediation plan in two weeks.
- 01
Challenge
Investors required independent technical review. No in-house CTO and a complex microservices architecture with known scaling concerns.
- 02
What Miracuves Delivered
Fractional CTO completed architecture audit in 10 days, identified three scaling risks, and presented remediation plan accepted by the board.
- 03
Outcome
Term sheet closed. Fractional CTO stayed on part-time for six months to execute the remediation roadmap.
10 DaysAudit complete
3 RisksIdentified & remediated
6 MonthsOngoing advisory
Engagement Brief
- ModelFractional CTO - Due Diligence
- Time to start1 week
- Audit duration10 days
- Follow-on6 months part-time
- OutcomeTerm sheet closed
Client Reviews
What clients say about Miracuves CTO Services
Verified on Clutch and Google, from clients across Miracuves engagement models - squads, staff augmentation and a fractional CTO paired with engineers - where Miracuves stayed accountable for the result.
"Dedicated squad of four replaced our plan to hire five FTEs over nine months. Miracuves delivery lead accountable - not us chasing individual contractors."
S.T., CEOUnited States
"Staff augmentation during ERP migration - scaled from two to eight engineers in three weeks, scaled back to two when go-live completed."
E.N., Program DirectorUK
"Fractional CTO plus two engineers for a client rebuild. Single engagement letter, single invoice - simpler than our old marketplace stack."
A.G., Managing PartnerCanada
Why Miracuves
Six places to check us before you ever call us
Each one is either run by someone else or open to anyone. Check them in any order; the whole list takes about a minute.
Why clients choose Miracuves
01
Company registration
Miracuves Solutions Pvt. Ltd., CIN U62099MH2023PTC406639. Search the CIN on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs portal.
mca.gov.in 02Every number, sourced
Projects, clients, prices and timelines, each one defined and sourced on our public facts ledger.
miracuves.com/facts 03Reviews on Clutch
Client reviews published by Clutch, an independent B2B review platform, not by us.
clutch.co 04Reviews on GoodFirms
A second, separate review platform. Read what clients wrote there too.
goodfirms.co 05The product itself
Web app, admin panel and APK with printed credentials. Try the real thing before a single call.
miracuves.com/solutions 06Clients, by name
Named clients describing their launches, in their own words.
miracuves.com/client-testimonialsThree promises we would stake the company on
Every promise on this site rests on these three. Each one is something you can check, not something you have to take on trust.
01People you can name
Our leadership is public, with real LinkedIn profiles, not a stock-photo team page. A named team works your build and sends you progress on WhatsApp every working day.
Meet the leadership02Proof over promises
Every number we publish, pricing, timelines, project counts, is defined and sourced on a public facts ledger. If we can't back a claim, we don't make it.
Read the facts ledger03A process with a deadline
Ready-made platforms go from kickoff to live deployment in 6 working days, guaranteed: miss it for reasons on our side and we work free until launch. Custom builds get a fixed quote after a free feasibility study.
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Industries
Industries we build Technology leadership for
The method is the same in every sector; what changes is the regulation, the data and the risks the assessment has to weigh.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Patient portals, booking flows and HIPAA-aware web apps.
View industryTelemedicine
Browser-based video visits, intake forms and provider dashboards.
View industryFintech
Secure dashboards, onboarding flows and payment integrations.
View industryRetail & E-commerce
Fast storefronts, checkout flows and headless commerce.
View industryMedia & Entertainment
Streaming front ends, subscriptions and content portals.
View industryCreator Economy
Creator profiles, paywalls and membership sites.
View industryTransportation & Mobility
Booking portals, dispatch dashboards and live tracking maps.
View industryFood & Beverage
Online ordering, menus and restaurant admin panels.
View industryFull Catalog
Build with Miracuves - leadership or full product delivery
Not every gap needs a CTO. When the assessment shows the missing piece is delivery rather than judgement, Miracuves can build it too - from 90+ ready-made bases or as a custom product - under the same NDA and with the same IP ownership.
Engagement modelDedicated squadsA delivery team working under your CTO's direction, with a delivery lead and a written cadence.Vertical solutionsClone & vertical launchWhen the roadmap says launch rather than rebuild: on-demand, fintech, OTT and marketplace bases with full source code.Technology servicesTechnology developmentFlutter, React, Node and more, when Miracuves should own the build your CTO has scoped.Solutions catalog90+ clone productsReady-made platforms your CTO can assess as a starting point instead of a build from zero.CLOUD INFRASTRUCTUREAWS DevelopmentCloud architecture, cost and security work on AWS, often the first item on a CTO's roadmap.
Related Engagement Models
Leadership, teams and build options across Miracuves
Advice is one way to work with Miracuves. These pages cover the builds, roles and teams that carry a recommendation out.
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Frequently Asked
Questions about fractional CTO services from Miracuves
Something not covered here? Ask on WhatsApp and you will usually have an answer within two hours.
Ask us directlyHow is a Miracuves fractional CTO different from a strategy consultant or advisory retainer?
Consultants deliver recommendations and leave; fractional CTOs make decisions and stay accountable for outcomes across the engagement. They join leadership meetings, own engineering hiring and vendor choices, direct architecture, and mentor your team while code ships - not a quarterly review deck. Vetting includes leadership references and live architecture judgment exercises on realistic constraints, not slide craftsmanship alone.
How many hours per week is typical, and when does full-time interim coverage make sense?
Part-time engagements run 20 hours per week, the Part-Time rate, for ongoing advisory, hiring, roadmap ownership, and engineering KPI definition. Full-time interim coverage suits CTO transitions, post-acquisition integration, or pre-IPO technical governance when the organization cannot wait six months for an executive search. Scope, hours, and deliverables are fixed in writing so fractional does not become vague 'office hours' without output.
How much do fractional CTO services cost at Miracuves?
Part-Time is $1,499 a month for 20 hours a week of CTO time. Full-Time is $3,299 a month for 40 hours a week of technical leadership. CTO + Squad, a fractional CTO directing a Miracuves team of 3-5 people with a delivery lead, is quoted per team. Every engagement is month-to-month with two weeks' notice. Every quote is written before payment, with no surprise invoices after kickoff.
Can a fractional CTO hire and build my engineering team - not just advise on org charts?
Yes. Many engagements include hiring playbooks, job specs, interview loops, compensation framing, and pipelined candidates from Miracuves' vetted roster. The CTO runs the process; Miracuves supplies depth when you need engineers quickly without compromising vetting standards.
Do you support investor or acquirer technical due diligence?
Yes - fixed-scope technical audits for fundraising, Series B diligence, or M&A are a common engagement type, typically 2-3 weeks. Deliverables include architecture risk assessment, scalability constraints, security posture summary, and remediation roadmap suitable for board or investor review.
Can a fractional CTO direct a Miracuves engineering squad under the same engagement?
Yes. CTO + Squad pairings combine fractional leadership with a Miracuves delivery team executing under their technical direction - useful when you need strategy and shipping velocity simultaneously without hiring a full executive team first.
We are non-technical founders. Is fractional CTO the right first hire before engineers?
Often yes. Fractional CTOs translate technical decisions into business terms, evaluate build-vs-buy, manage vendor relationships, and stand up engineering function until a full-time hire is justified. Miracuves matches for communication clarity with non-technical stakeholders - not engineers who only speak in acronyms.
What if the CTO's style or industry experience is not aligned with our company stage?
The 2-week replacement guarantee applies. Miracuves sources an alternative profile with closer stage fit - seed vs growth, B2B vs regulated, hardware vs pure SaaS - without restarting a six-month executive search.
What is the minimum engagement for due diligence vs ongoing fractional leadership?
Due diligence projects typically run 2-3 weeks with defined deliverables - architecture risk, scalability constraints, security summary, and remediation roadmap suitable for board or investor review. Ongoing fractional CTO work is month-to-month with two weeks' notice. There is no multi-year retained mandate required to access senior technical leadership when you need decisions made, not another assessment delayed.
Can a fractional CTO help us hire our permanent CTO?
Yes. The fractional CTO can define the role, write the specification, sit on the interview panel and judge the technical depth of each candidate, then brief the person you appoint. Because decisions have been documented throughout the engagement, the new CTO starts with the reasoning behind the current architecture rather than guessing at it.
What does a technology assessment report contain?
It covers the architecture, security posture, delivery process, team and key vendor contracts. Each finding is ranked high, medium or low, with its business impact stated in plain language and an owner proposed. It comes with a phased roadmap and is written so a board member can read it without an engineering background. Samples are shared under NDA once you brief us.
Do you work with companies outside India?
Yes. Miracuves is based in Mumbai and works with clients remotely worldwide. Meeting times and overlap hours are agreed in the engagement letter; the Full-Time rate includes 4+ hours of overlap with your working day. Board and investor sessions are scheduled inside that window.
Get Started
Ready for fractional CTO leadership ?
Tell Miracuves your stage and technical gaps. We match a fractional CTO profile and confirm engagement terms before you commit. Share your stage, your stack and the decision in front of you - a raise, a rebuild, a first engineering hire. Miracuves replies within one business day with a proposed CTO, the published rate and a bilateral NDA to review.
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