CTO as a Service

Strategic tech leadership for SMEs — fraction of the cost

Get your own CTO for a fraction of cost

Software projects are complex to lead. The person at the top needs deep technical expertise, hands-on experience running engineering teams, business judgement, and the ability to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies — cloud, data, AI/ML, security and compliance.

Hiring a full-time CTO is expensive and often unnecessary for SMEs and scale-ups. A fractional CTO from Vantino provides senior technical leadership a few days per month: tech strategy, architecture decisions, build-vs-buy choices, hiring, vendor management, and security and compliance posture (Swiss DSG, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2).

Whether you need to ship a first product, scale an existing one, recover a stalled project, or assess technical debt before fundraising, a fractional CTO gets you senior judgement on call — without a six-figure full-time hire.

Tech leadership, on your terms — Swiss-managed, vendor-neutral.

Get your own part-time CTO for a fraction of the cost. Contact us for a CTO consultation.

What our fractional CTO covers:
  • Technology strategy and roadmap
  • Software architecture: monolith, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native
  • Cloud strategy and FinOps (AWS, GCP, Azure, Hetzner, Scaleway)
  • AI/ML strategy: LLM APIs (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini), open-source models, RAG
  • Data strategy: warehouses, lakehouses, semantic layers, governance
  • Security and compliance posture (Swiss DSG, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
  • Hiring, vendor management and build-vs-buy decisions
  • Engineering processes: DevOps, CI/CD, code review, observability