Zero-equity technology partnerCTO, dev team, product strategy
CTO as a Service & technical co-founder
Whisia Technology
Your technical co-founder, minus the equity.
You focus on the business. We lead the technology, from architecture to launch to running it. We work inside your existing setup, so there’s no handover and no new process to learn. See how the first weeks go
youkeep every share of it.
Five thingswe takeoff you.
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CTO as a Service
You bring: The goal, the constraints, and whatever already exists.
We deliver: Technical direction, architecture and engineering standards — and a review of everything before it ships.
Ongoing
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MVP Launch
You bring: The idea, and the one thing it has to prove.
We deliver: The smallest product that proves it, built and launched. No over-engineering, no endless planning.
One sprint
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AI Agents & Automation
You bring: The workflow that eats your week.
We deliver: Agents built around your actual process — research, operations, support, data handling, internal busywork.
Per workflow
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Managed Developers
You bring: Your developers and your backlog.
We deliver: Architecture, code quality and delivery flow, with senior oversight so the work adds up to something.
Ongoing
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Cloud Cost Reduction
You bring: Read-only access to your cloud accounts.
We deliver: An audit, then the migration and the tuning — paid from a share of what you actually save.
Six months
Your firsttwo weeks
Day 0
Discovery call
Walk us through the project and we explore how we can help. A conversation, not a sales pitch.
Day 2
Written scope and price in 48 hours
What we would build, in what order, and what it costs. No obligation.
Week 1
Kickoff
We get access to your setup, agree the priorities and open a shared channel.
Week 2
First delivery
Something working in your hands, with regular check-ins from there.
The stack we build in
- Node.jsRuntime
- PythonLanguage
- GoLanguage
- PHPLanguage
- BashScripting
- ReactFrontend
- VueFrontend
- TailwindStyling
- PostgreSQLDatabase
- MySQLDatabase
- MongoDBDatabase
- RedisCache
- AWSCloud
- Google CloudCloud
- DockerContainers
- KubernetesOrchestration
- JenkinsCI
- GitHubSource
- FigmaDesign
Chosen per project, not per fashion.
Fixedplans,paid monthly.
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Full Partnership
The don’t-worry-about-it plan
- Planning and product strategy
- Development and design
- Automation and infrastructure
- Everything in between
from $8Ka month
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CTO as a Service
Teams that need technical direction
- Architecture and technical direction
- Engineering standards
- A delivery pipeline in your environment
- Review before anything ships
from $5Ka month
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MVP Launch
An idea that needs to exist
- Scope cut to what proves it
- Build and launch
- One focused sprint
from $8Konce
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Managed Developers
Teams that already build
- Architecture and code review
- Hiring and delivery guidance
- Senior oversight on the backlog
from $3Ka month
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Cloud Cost Reduction
Infrastructure bills that have crept up
- An audit of what you run
- Migration and tuning
- Paid from a share of the savings
Share ofwhat you save
Every plan: a clear monthly scope, a shared channel, regular check-ins, 100% equity retention and full IP ownership. Rolling three-month agreement — pause when you need to, and keep the time you have already paid for.
Starting takesone call andtwo days.
From wherever you are now
A half-built product, a team that needs steering, or nothing but a document. We start from what exists rather than asking you to start again.
Book the call
Walk us through the project and we explore how we can help.
Read the plan
A written scope and a price within 48 hours, plus a shared channel.
Work starts
We work inside your existing setup, agree the priorities and start delivering.
What a zero-equity partner should be
Thinks like a CTO. Ships like a squad. Zero equity.
Questionswe hearevery week.
Do you work with non-startup businesses?
Yes. Most of our work is with established companies — agencies, operators and software teams that need senior technical direction without adding a full-time executive. The model is the same whether you raised a round last month or have been trading for twenty years.
Who owns the code and the cloud accounts?
You do, from day one. Repositories, cloud accounts, domains and third-party services are created under your organisation with you as owner, and we work inside them. Nothing we build sits on infrastructure you cannot take over tomorrow.
Do you take any equity?
No, and we never will. You keep 100% of your company and full IP ownership of everything we build. We are paid a monthly fee and nothing else.
Why not hire a full-time CTO?
A full-time CTO now costs well over $300,000 a year plus stock options, which is more than most companies need until the engineering team is sizable. You get the same depth of experience for a fraction of it, with zero equity, and you can stop whenever it stops making sense.
What happens after the first call?
Within 48 hours you get a written scope and a price: what we would build, in what order, and what it costs. If you go ahead, kickoff is the following week.
Can you work with the developers we already have?
That is a large part of what we do. We set the architecture, review the code and run the delivery process, and your developers keep building. We are happy to help you hire more, or to hand the whole thing over to an internal lead when you have one.
What if we need to stop or pause?
Tell us and we stop at the end of the current month. You keep every repository, account and document, and we write a handover of where things stand so whoever picks it up is not starting from scratch.
48hours
From the first call to a written plan and a price
- hello@whisia.com
- First call
- Twenty minutes, free, with the people who would do the work.
- Then
- A written scope and a price within 48 hours. No obligation.
- Commitment
- A rolling three-month agreement. Pause in any month.