Truly senior
The person deciding with you has had hits and misses on real projects, not in a consulting slide deck.
A senior CTO, only when the stakes are high.
Architecture, stack selection and vendor management on demand, always behind your brand.
Signs your tech decisions are already costing you.
You don't need a full-time CTO. But some moments call for technical decisions you can't hand off to a freelancer or guess at on your own.
Your agency grew, but tech didn't keep up
More complex projects, and architecture decisions made in the dark with fingers crossed.
A big project landed in your lap
A client wants an app, a platform or a heavy integration, and no one can size up the risk and timeline.
You manage devs you can't evaluate
You hire freelancers and vendors, but can't tell if the work is good or the price is fair.
A transition or a tech fire
Migration, tech debt or a production fire that no one in-house can put out.
Everything a senior CTO brings, at your disposal.
An assessment of your current systems and a tech roadmap aligned with your agency's goals, with architecture validated before it becomes code.
- Roadmap
- Architecture
- Scope
How CTO as a Service fits into your agency.
A discovery call to understand your agency, the projects at stake and where technical decisions are getting stuck.
- Discovery call with your team
- Mapping current projects and systems
- Identifying technical bottlenecks
- Getting a read on your agency's stage and priorities
Real technical leadership, not generic guesswork.
Understands the agency model
We respect your scope. We stay out of design, content and media.
Connected to execution
If the decision becomes a project, the same team builds it, from Web development to MVP Sprint 15, with no handoff to third parties.
Frequently asked questions.
Straight answers about team, white label, execution, billing and when it makes sense to start.
No. CTO as a Service works both for agencies with no one in tech yet and for those that already have a team and need senior direction.
No, not unless you ask and you're in the room. It's white label: the technical leadership is presented as your agency's own, and Dorck stays behind the scenes.
CTO as a Service is direction, not execution. When a decision turns into a project, execution comes in as a separate service from the same team, so you don't have to hunt for a vendor.
Monthly prepaid hours at the current hourly rate, or on a one-off basis for a specific decision. No salary, payroll taxes or severance. You scale the hours up when things heat up and back down when they cool off.
Yes. You can start with one specific decision or project, then decide whether it's worth turning into an ongoing engagement.
No. The recommendation always follows your project's scale and cost. Dorck works with several stacks precisely to recommend the right one, not the one that means more work for us.
Yes. Founders who've gotten their MVP off the ground and need ongoing technical direction to scale also hire CTO as a Service.
Your next tech decision doesn't have to be a shot in the dark.
A 30-minute call, no strings attached. We get to know where your agency stands and show you how on-demand technical leadership fits in.
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