Pain 01
For founders who built it themselves.
Your highest leverage is closing deals, not taming the codebase.
You willed an AI-coded MVP to revenue. The duct-tape that got you here is now throttling your business. I step in as your Fractional CPO and tech lead, bring a vetted execution bench, and stabilise the architecture. You get roughly twenty hours a week back. You go back to being the CEO.
Every hour in the codebase is an hour not spent on revenue.
Coding Product
55%
of your week
Coding Product
The villain
22h
Business Focus
Sales · Strategy
10h
Customer Focus
Research · Feedback
8h
Drag the dots on the donut to rebalance
On average, founders are spending 20+ hrs/week vibe-coding their apps.
01 — The Pain
You are not short on ideas. You are short on hours, trust, and a roadmap.
What's running in your head
Three things at once, most nights, after 11pm.
Pain 02
Low trust in the code
Pain 03
No product roadmap
02 — The Solution
Building was your edge. Now it is your liability.
◆ Before · Today
You are the bottleneck.
22h
10h
8h
Coding &
debugging 22h
debugging 22h
Business
focus 10h
focus 10h
Customer
focus 8h
focus 8h
Founder hours / week
22h lost to code
◆ The Engagement
I take accountability for the outcome. Not just the ship.
01
Audit & stabilise the architecture
02
Craft a roadmap & a process
03
Return your most impactful hours
The result: a business that scales without the founder in the terminal.
◆ After · Week 6
You are the CEO again.
4h
22h
14h
Coding &
debugging 4h
debugging 4h
Business
focus 22h
focus 22h
Customer
focus 14h
focus 14h
Founder hours / week
+20h reclaimed
03 — The Commercial Advantage
Executive ownership without the equity drain or the quarter-long stall.
Zero sales pauses.
I stabilise the MVP you already have. The one generating revenue today. You do not lose a single day of commercial momentum to a rebuild.
vs. Agency · £40k + three months to rewrite from scratch.
Executive leverage without the liability.
You get the strategic oversight and architectural direction of a seasoned CTO, bought as a modular fixed-cost line on your P&L. Your cap table stays intact. You keep 100% of your equity.
vs. Full-time CTO · £130k (€150k) salary + 10% equity before your first €100k / £87k ARR.
Complete time buy-back.
You delegate the outcome, step out of the codebase, and return to the CEO seat. Twenty hours a week back on your calendar, without becoming a full-time product manager for a junior hire.
vs. In-house mid-level dev · affordable, but needs a PM. That PM becomes you.
II
High OWN · High COST
CTO
Full-time CTO
£130k + 10% equity
Executive leadership. Unit economics are catastrophic below €100k / £87k ARR.
I
CPO
+ Tech Lead
+ Tech Lead
Fawad · Fractional CPO + Tech Lead
Fixed monthly · no equity
CTO-grade ownership without the drain. Stabilise what you have and reclaim ~20 hrs/week.
III
Low OWN · High COST
Agency
Traditional dev agency
£40k · 3-month rewrite
Incentivised to rewrite from scratch. Sales momentum stalls for a quarter.
IV
Low OWN · Low COST
Mid
Dev
Dev
In-house mid-level dev
Affordable · needs direction
Keeps the ship moving, but you become the full-time PM. Focus drain continues.
— The sweet spot: executive ownership at a fractional price.
04 — Engagement Models
Commercial outcomes, priced as operating expense. No equity. No rewrites.
Every engagement is built around what you get back: revenue protected, hours returned, decisions de-risked.
Most founders start on the Primary Pathway: a fixed-fee diagnosis followed by a monthly Grow Pod. The three specialised engagements below address specific situations: an active fire, a team that lacks leadership, or the push for accelerated scale.
The Primary Pathway
01 Start here · Fixed fee
The Architectural Risk Audit
A clinical assessment of your codebase — so you know exactly where revenue is exposed.
- Vulnerability snapshot.
- Prioritised remediation list — ranked by revenue exposure.
- Credited in full against the Grow Pod within 30 days.
€2,000 / £1,750Fixed · 10 days
Start the audit →
02 Standard retainer · 30-day rolling
The Maintain & Grow Pod
You step out of the codebase. I run product and engineering. You go back to closing deals.
- ~20 hours / week returned to outbound, partnerships, and hiring.
- Fractional CPO + Tech Lead ownership — roadmap, architecture, weekly strategic sync.
- Vetted senior execution bench — ships reliably, every week.
- No equity. No rewrite. 30-day rolling.
€7,000 / £6,100per month · rolling
Book the intro call →
The Grow Pod covers most founders
Not sure which path fits? One call decides it.
Fifteen minutes. No deck, no pitch. A reality check on your architecture and whether the Grow Pod or a specialised engagement is the right move.
Specialised Engagements
For specific situations: an active fire, a team without leadership, or the push to win a technical category. Hover to expand.
The Intervention
The Stabilisation Sprint
For founders whose AI-generated codebase is actively breaking under user load.
- Architectural audit + hands-on remediation.
- API vulnerability mapping & baseline security (SOC 2 prep).
- Visual Solution Architecture Diagram: ground truth for your stack.
- Emergency code fixes to stabilise the platform in 30 days.
€8k–€12k / £7k–£10.4k30-day sprint
Enquire →
Strategic Oversight
The Advisory Pod
For founders with an internal dev team, but no executive technical leadership.
- Pure technical and product leadership, without execution liability.
- Strategic roadmap ownership and architectural direction.
- Sprint direction so your team ships commercial assets every week.
- CTO-grade oversight; your engineers stay accountable.
€2k–€3k / £1.7k–£2.6kper month · rolling
Enquire →
Accelerated Scale
The High-Velocity Pod
For post-revenue companies deploying complex architecture — Agentic AI, deep learning, data-heavy pipelines.
- Everything in the Grow Pod, augmented by senior domain experts.
- Dedicated specialists. Not shared. Not junior.
- High-fidelity execution with materially faster time-to-market.
- Built for founders who need to win a technical category fast.
€15,000 / £13,050per month · rolling
Enquire →
— Invoiced in EUR or GBP. Both prices are firm.
No rewrites. No handovers. No equity.
05 — About
Most technical advisors understand code. They do not understand P&L.
I work both sides. MBA from HEC Paris (Corporate Strategy & Finance). Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering. For twelve years I have moved between the two: presenting five-year portfolio strategies to Schneider Electric's leadership; building the AI infrastructure that reclaimed 351,000 hours a year for Hilti AG.
Three times a founder. I know what it is to build an MVP from zero: raising R&D funding, managing hardware supply chains, scaling a platform past 7,000 users. I step in so your technology serves the P&L.
01 · Commercial Acumen
Trained where capital decisions are made.
MBA · HEC Paris — Corporate Strategy & Finance. Advanced leadership training at Saint-Cyr.
02 · Technical Depth
I can open the logs.
B.E. Electrical Engineering (Embedded Systems). Architect of 13+ enterprise LLM data stores: RAG, evals, guardrails, MCP.
03 · Founder Reality
Been in the 2 a.m. codebase.
Three times a founder. Raised R&D funding, managed hardware manufacturing, scaled software past 7,000 users.
06 — The Next Step
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Let's get you to €100k. Then €300k. Then €1M.
Fifteen minutes. No deck, no pitch. An architecture and calendar reality check.
Book your 15-min momentum call →— Fawad Bhatti