“We don’t need a full-time CTO… but we do need someone who knows what they’re doing.”
Sound familiar?
If you’re a growing company without in-house tech leadership, you’ve likely run into this problem:
- You’re making critical technology decisions
- But no one’s fully qualified to own them
- And hiring a full-time CTO feels premature (or unaffordable)
This is where a fractional CTO (aka part-time CTO) can make a big difference.
Here’s what a good one does:
✅ Brings strategic oversight to your tech decisions
✅ Helps align your product/tech roadmap to business goals
✅ Advises on hiring, architecture, process, security, scalability
✅ Coaches your team and builds your internal capability
And what they don’t:
❌ Write all your code
❌ Magically fix all your delivery problems overnight
❌ Replace the need for strong internal ownership
A fractional CTO is like renting senior leadership — you get the benefit of experience without the full-time commitment.
At BlueHive, we offer this kind of advisory and mentoring support — especially for founders or teams without deep technical backgrounds.
If you’re navigating choices like:
“Do we build or buy this?”
“Can we scale on our current stack?”
“How do we recruit the right tech lead?”
A part-time CTO might be exactly what you need.
