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.

Anything from a one-off technical strategy session to a monthly advisory retainer to an ongoing fractional CTO role covering architecture, hiring, AI and automation, and due diligence readiness. Scope gets defined on a free 30-minute intro call.

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 the $295 strategy session, and a full review is scoped and billed at $249 an hour.

With me it starts at $295 for a one-off strategy session, and ongoing advisory starts at $995 a month. 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 an interview with the founder of Acquire.com.