Fractional CTO in Miami

Yes, I live in Miami and regularly meet founders across Brickell, Wynwood, Coral Gables, and up to Fort Lauderdale. First conversation is usually a 30-minute call, then in person if we're a fit.

Yes. I work in English, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, so I can run architecture reviews, hiring interviews, and standups directly with teams in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and the rest of LatAm, no translation layer. That is also how I help with overseas engineering hiring at a fraction of the cost, because I can interview the candidate in their own language and judge the work rather than the CV. Miami sits within an hour or two of São Paulo, Bogotá, Buenos Aires and Mexico City, so it is the same working day rather than an overnight handoff.

Yes, that is me. I work in person across Miami and South Florida and remotely everywhere else, in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, which means I can run reviews and interviews directly with your team in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina or Mexico with no translation layer. Most Miami startups I talk to have their engineers somewhere between São Paulo and Mexico City, and the technical conversation then happens twice, once in the team's language, then again in English for the founder, and the second pass is where the detail goes missing. I skip it. I am not a staffing agency and I do not place developers, I work with the team you already have.

Anything from one advisory session a month to a session every week to an ongoing fractional CTO role covering architecture, hiring, AI and automation, and due diligence readiness. Scope gets defined on a free 30-minute discovery call.

Yes. I ran the revenue side of a company I also wrote the code for. At Growth-X that meant SEO, paid search, LinkedIn posts, and outbound aimed only at accounts showing a buying signal, and the company reached 500+ B2B clients with zero outside funding and was acquired in June 2025. The whole system is written up with a narrated walkthrough in the go-to-market engine I built at Growth-X.

Yes, and it is a large part of what I do. You do not need to read the code. You need someone who does, and who answers to you rather than to the people who wrote it. I turn the technical decisions into the business consequence, what it costs, what it forecloses, how long it actually takes. And I give you a recommendation, not a list of options to guess between. What I cannot do is care about the product for you. If you want technology entirely off your desk, that is a full-time CTO or a technical co-founder, not a fractional one.

Yes. I read the codebase, the infrastructure, and whatever documentation exists, then tell you what you actually own, what it costs to keep running, and what to rebuild versus what to leave alone. You get it in writing, in plain language, with the reasoning, so it is still useful after I am gone. Usually the answer is not start over. Most inherited code is somewhere between fine and fixable, and the expensive mistake is rebuilding something that only needed a maintainer. I do not sell developers and I do not take the rebuild, so the recommendation is not a quote in disguise. A first read fits inside a session, and a full review is scoped and billed at $249 an hour.

With Riccardo Pisano the advisory starts at $295 a month for one session a month, $545 for a session every other week and $995 for a session every week. Full fractional CTO engagements are scoped per company, typically a few days a month, and are billed at $249 an hour beyond the advisory retainer, so a typical few-days-a-month arrangement runs roughly $4,000 to $8,000. Cheaper options exist in this market, and they usually mean a junior engineer's time rather than a founder who has built and sold a company. A full-time CTO costs multiples of any of this, before equity.

Yes, and it exists because the alternative is worse. Most early-stage companies need senior technical judgment for a few days a month, not a full-time executive sitting in standups. You get the decisions that are expensive to get wrong, architecture, hiring, build versus buy, technical debt, due diligence, without carrying the salary.

A full-time CTO costs multiples of a fractional retainer, with equity on top, plus the months it takes to hire one and the risk of hiring the wrong one. A fractional arrangement has no equity and no severance, and you can stop any month. The tradeoff is availability. I am not in every meeting. If your technical decisions need someone present daily, hire full time. If they need someone right the first time, hire fractionally.

I've been the CEO and the person writing the code. Four startups, one bootstrapped with zero outside funding and acquired in June 2025. My Miami history goes back to the early 2010s startup scene. The exit story is on the record in interviews about the sale.

I am Riccardo Pisano and I do this from Miami, so here is what I am and what I am not. I am a 4x founder with one exit who bootstrapped a B2B SaaS from the first line of code to the acquisition, so I have made the architecture, hiring and technical debt calls with my own money on the line rather than advising on somebody else's. I work in person across Miami and South Florida and remotely everywhere else, in English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, which means I can run reviews and interviews directly with your team in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina or Mexico with no translation layer. Advisory is $295 a month for one session, $545 every other week and $995 every week, and hours beyond that are $249. I am not an agency and I do not bring a team of developers, so if what you need is people to write the code I am the wrong call, and I will tell you that on the first one.

No. I will teach you, I will not do the work for you. What I own with you is the technical decision, what to build, what to buy, what to cut, what it costs and how long it actually takes. I will also tell you whether the code your team or your agency wrote is any good. The writing of the code stays with them. If what you need is somebody to build the product for you, that is an agency or a first engineering hire rather than a fractional CTO, and I will tell you that on the free discovery call rather than take the retainer. Ongoing fractional work is $249 an hour beyond the monthly retainer.