HM NayemHM Nayem
Fractional CTO

One company at a time.

A monthly retainer for founders who need a technical leader in the business, not advice from outside it. I take one engagement at a time, so you get real attention and real ownership: architecture, hiring, roadmap, and getting your product shipped.

HM Nayem
What I own with you

The decision seat

Business, product, and engineering calls made together, by someone who has run all three.

Your architecture

The foundational choices, made right the first time, before they get expensive to undo.

Your roadmap

What to build, what to delay, and what to never build at all.

Your hiring bar

I run the technical interviews and give you a clear hire or no-hire, then help build the team that takes over.

Your engineering team

I direct and review the work, whether that is your team or a vetted team I bring in.

The hard moments

A senior voice in the room every time a decision carries real cost.

How it works

What a month looks like

The first month

I go deep on your stack, your team, and your roadmap, and hand you a written assessment with a prioritized plan. You will know exactly where you stand and what I would do first.

Then, every month after:

Four working sessions

Sixty minutes each, on the decisions that are live right now. Not status updates. Working sessions.

Async access in between

You bring me the call that came up on Tuesday and you get a real answer, not a placeholder. Answered within one business day.

A written plan, kept current

The technical plan is a living document, updated as priorities move.

Hands on the work

Architecture and code reviews on the parts that matter, and interviews run when you are hiring.

This is for you if
You are funded and building something that has to ship and scale.
You are non-technical and need a technical partner you can fully trust.
You are technical and stretched too thin to lead engineering and build at once.
You are making foundational bets you cannot afford to redo.
This is not for you if
You need someone writing production code full time. That is a hire, not a fractional CTO.
You have already made the technical decisions and just need hands to execute.
You want a contractor to deliver a fixed spec. I work on the decisions, not the ticket queue.
You are looking for the cheapest option. This is not it, and that is deliberate.
The offer

A full technical leader, for a fraction of one.

A CTO hire is a senior salary, real equity, and a three to six month search that might not work out. This is a monthly rate you can stop.

$12K/ month

Monthly retainer for strategic leadership, decision ownership, and hands-on direction of the work.

Book a call

Your strategy call is credited toward month one.

What lands each month
Four 60-minute working sessions
Async access between sessions, answered within one business day
A written technical plan, updated as priorities shift
Architecture and code reviews on the work that matters
Technical interviews run and hire or no-hire calls made