Fractional CTO - EdTech & SaaS
A $300K VP Engineering hire is not where you are right now. An Executive-Level Tech Leadership Without the Full-Time Overhead is what you need.
Our Tech Leadership has spent 20+ years architecting software products from a corporate learning platform that reached $50M ARR to district-wide K–12 LMS deployments to Series A SaaS platforms shipped in under 90 days. They’re available as your fractional CTO: embedded in your planning, accountable for your architectural decisions, without the full-time headcount.
Whether you're a pre-engineering-hire founder or a company at an architectural inflection point — platform rewrite, first SOC 2 audit, scaling crisis — we step in where the gap is and hands off cleanly when it's closed.
Two types of companies that work with our Fractional CTO.
PRE-ENGINEERING-HIRE FOUNDERS: You have a product vision, maybe a small dev team, and no VP Engineering or CTO yet. You're making architectural decisions without the experience to know which ones will cost you 18 months from now. Taylor steps in as your fractional CTO — making those decisions with you, or reviewing the ones you've already made.
COMPANIES AT AN ARCHITECTURAL INFLECTION: You have an engineering team but you're hitting a ceiling — platform rewrite, scaling crisis, legacy migration, first SOC 2 audit, or a new compliance requirement. Taylor joins for a fixed-term engagement to get you through the inflection point and hand off cleanly.
What You Get With CTO On-Demand.
Our Tech Leadership brings 20+ years of architectural decisions, hiring experience, and product judgment — embedded directly in your planning, not parachuted in after the damage is done.
Technical Roadmap
We translate your product vision into a sprint-by-sprint engineering plan with clear milestones, dependencies, and risk flags. Every decision is documented — including the reasoning behind it.
Written plan your team can execute fromArchitecture & Stack Decisions
Stack selection, database design, API architecture, third-party integrations, cloud infrastructure. Our Tech Leaders has made these calls for 30+ products. We know what the right answer looks like — and which popular choices will hurt you at scale.
30+ products — decisions documented with reasoningHiring & Team Building
Job descriptions, technical interview frameworks, candidate evaluation, offer calibration. We have built teams from 3 to 60 engineers. We knows what "senior" actually looks like in an interview — and what it doesn't.
Built teams from 3 to 60 engineersInvestor & Board Readiness
Technical due diligence prep, architecture documentation, and the scalability narrative your Series A/B investors will ask for. We have been the technical voice in fundraising conversations for multiple clients.
Series A/B technical narrative included“Hireplicity approaches the project as if they are the founders of the company.”
— Former Head of BI & Data, Education Platform
What working with our Fractional CTO actually changes.
Five things that shift when you have 20+ years of architectural judgment embedded in your planning.
Faster, Cleaner Decisions
Every architectural call gets made with 20+ years of context behind it. No 3-week evaluation process for a stack decision we have made a dozen times. You get a recommendation and the reasoning — in your first session.
Increased Investor Confidence
Show current and potential investors that your tech strategy is in expert hands. We have been the technical voice in fundraising conversations for multiple clients — we know the questions Series A/B investors ask before the founder does.
Scalability Engineered In From Day One
We. have architected platforms that went from 5,000 to 100,000+ monthly active users in under 18 months. We know which architectural decisions you can defer and which ones you can never take back.
Reduced Technical Risk
The most expensive bugs are the architectural ones — wrong stack, wrong data model, wrong scaling assumption. We surface these in discovery before a line of code is written, not 6 months into a rebuild.
Business and Engineering, Finally Aligned
Founders speak product. Engineers speak code. We speak both. We translate between the two — so your sprint reflects your business priorities, not a dev team's interpretation of them.
The engineer behind your engagement.
Taylor started coding at 18. In 2009, he founded Hireplicity with a handful of developers — his first clients are still clients today. He doesn't just advise. When an engagement needs direct execution, he does it. And when it's time to hand off, he documents everything so your team can own it independently.
$50M ARR — Taylor architected the first working version of a product that grew from $0 to $50M in annual recurring revenue.
District-wide K–12 LMS deployments — multi-tenant platforms for thousands of educators and learners, FERPA-compliant from day one.
40% infrastructure cost reduction — while doubling uptime for a corporate learning platform.
SimpleCar — full technical build from scratch: dev stack, database architecture, web apps, and user management.
Hireplicity: 3 → 60+ engineers over 14 years — with a 2% attrition rate in an industry that averages 13%.
He doesn't just advise. When an engagement needs direct execution, he does it. And when it's time to hand off, he documents everything so your team can own it independently.
Book a free first session with Taylor
Start free. Scale as you need.
Three ways to work with Taylor — from a single free session to ongoing architectural guidance.
First Session — Free
A 60-minute working session with Taylor. No agenda, no sales pitch. Leave with a clear set of next steps.
Monthly Retainer
Ongoing architectural guidance embedded in your planning. Scale hours up during crunch periods, back during steady state.
Fixed-Term Engagement
For specific inflection points. Scoped deliverables, fixed timeline, clean handoff. Priced at the first session.
Bring your hardest technical problem. We will tell you exactly how we'd solve it.
The first session is free. 60 minutes with our Tech Leadership — no agenda, no sales pitch. Bring your architecture diagram, your roadmap, or your hiring plan. You'll leave with a clear set of next steps and an honest assessment of your technical risk.