Engineering, off your deskDirection, delivery, and the running of it

The technical half of a founding team

Whisia Technology

Your technical co-founder, minus the equity.

Book an intro call See the plans
  • Code open on a developer's screen
  • An engineer working at a laptop beside a monitor
  • A studio office with the team at their desks
  • A laptop showing a product dashboard

You run the company; we run engineering — choosing the architecture, building on it, and keeping the result alive once it is live. All of it happens inside the tools and accounts you already have, so nothing gets handed over and nobody learns a new process. See how the first weeks go

youkeep every share of it.

Five thingswe takeoff you.

  • CTO as a Service

    You bring: The goal, the constraints, and whatever already exists.

    We deliver: Someone accountable for the architecture, the standards your code is held to, and a senior read on anything headed for production.

    Ongoing

  • MVP Launch

    You bring: The idea, and the one thing it has to prove.

    We deliver: The narrowest thing that settles the question, built and put in front of real users. We would rather ship in weeks than specify for months.

    One sprint

  • AI Agents & Automation

    You bring: The workflow that eats your week.

    We deliver: Agents shaped around the way you already work — the reading, the chasing, the copying between systems, the tickets nobody wants.

    Per workflow

  • Managed Developers

    You bring: Your developers and your backlog.

    We deliver: Decisions on structure, a review bar that holds, and a release rhythm — so a year of your team's output adds up to one coherent system.

    Ongoing

  • Cloud Cost Reduction

    You bring: Read-only access to your cloud accounts.

    We deliver: An audit, then the migration and the tuning. Our fee comes out of the difference, so a bill that refuses to fall costs you nothing.

    Six months

Your firsttwo weeks

  1. Day 0

    Discovery call

    Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck. Twenty minutes, no deck, no pitch.

  2. Day 2

    Written scope and price in 48 hours

    What we would build, in what order, and what it costs. No obligation.

  3. Week 1

    Kickoff

    We get access to your setup, agree the priorities and open a shared channel.

  4. Week 2

    First delivery

    Something working in your hands, with regular check-ins from there.

The stack we build in

  • Node.jsRuntime
  • PythonLanguage
  • GoLanguage
  • PHPLanguage
  • BashScripting
  • ReactFrontend
  • VueFrontend
  • TailwindStyling
  • PostgreSQLDatabase
  • MySQLDatabase
  • MongoDBDatabase
  • RedisCache
  • AWSCloud
  • Google CloudCloud
  • DockerContainers
  • KubernetesOrchestration
  • JenkinsCI
  • GitHubSource
  • FigmaDesign

Chosen per project, not per fashion.

Fixedplans,priced up front.

  • Full Partnership

    Founders who would rather not think about engineering at all

    • The roadmap and the product calls
    • Design and build
    • Infrastructure and automation
    • Whatever else the quarter needs

    from $7Ka month

  • CTO as a Service

    Teams that need technical direction

    • Architecture and the calls that follow from it
    • The standards your team codes to
    • A release pipeline in your own accounts
    • Senior eyes on the code before release

    from $4Ka month

  • MVP Launch

    An idea that needs to exist

    • Scope cut to what proves it
    • Build and launch
    • One focused sprint

    $12–20Konce

  • Managed Developers

    Teams that already build

    • Architecture and code review
    • Hiring and delivery guidance
    • Senior oversight on the backlog

    from $2.5Ka month

  • Cloud Cost Reduction

    Infrastructure bills that have crept up

    • An audit of what you run
    • Migration and tuning
    • Our fee comes out of the difference

    Share ofwhat you save

Every plan: a scope in writing, one channel we both live in, check-ins on a fixed day, and your cap table and your IP left entirely alone. Retainers run month to month — stop at the end of any month, and keep the time you have already paid for.

Starting takesone call andtwo days.

From wherever you are now

A half-built product, a team that needs steering, or nothing but a document. We start from what exists rather than asking you to start again.

  1. Book the call

    Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck.

  2. Read the plan

    Two days later: what we would build, in what order, for how much.

  3. Work starts

    We work inside your existing setup, agree the priorities and start delivering.

The whole idea, in three lines

Senior enough to say no. Close enough to ship. No equity.

Questionswe hearevery week.

Do you work with non-startup businesses?

Yes. We work with both startups and established companies — founders, operators and software teams that need senior technical direction without adding a full-time executive. The model is the same whether you raised a round last month or have been trading for twenty years.

Who owns the code and the cloud accounts?

You do, from day one. Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and third-party services are created under your organisation with you as owner, and we work inside them. Nothing we build sits on infrastructure you cannot take over tomorrow.

Do you take any equity?

Never. Your cap table is none of our business, and everything we build belongs to you outright, from the first commit. We are paid in fees only.

When does hiring your own CTO make more sense?

When there is enough engineering to fill the job: a team to manage, a product with a roadmap of its own, decisions arriving faster than a part-time partner can take them. Below that line, an executive salary and a slice of the company buy a lot of idle capacity. We cover the same ground until you reach it — and we will tell you when you have, rather than wait for you to work it out.

What happens after the first call?

Two days later you have it in writing: what we would build, in what order, and what it costs. Say yes and we start the week after.

Can you work with the developers we already have?

That is a large part of what we do. We set the architecture, review the code and run the delivery process, and your developers keep building. We are happy to help you hire more, or to hand the whole thing over to an internal lead when you have one.

What if we need to stop or pause?

Tell us and we stop at the end of the current month. You keep every repository, account and document, and we write a handover of where things stand so whoever picks it up is not starting from scratch.

48hours

From the first call to a written plan and a price

Email
[email protected]
First call
Twenty minutes, free, with a senior member of the team.
Then
A written scope and a price within 48 hours. No obligation.
Commitment
Rolling month to month. Stop at the end of any month.

Book an intro call.

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