Plain pricing. One core offering.

A free Discovery Call, then a Fractional CTO retainer at $4,500/month — an experienced practitioner in the room, ongoing sounding-board access, and 20+ years of pattern recognition across enterprise tech. Defined-scope engagements available below the retainer for buyers who want a fixed-fee project with a named deliverable. No setup fees, no hidden hours, no scope creep without a conversation.

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Discovery Call

Free
30 minutes
No obligation

What you get

  • Mostly us listening — context, history, what's been tried, what hurts, what's at stake
  • Real questions to surface what's actually slowing the business down (often not tech)
  • An honest read on where experience, coaching, process, AI, or build work would move the needle — if any
  • A recommended next step: engagement, retainer, or "not yet"

Anti-fit

  • You want a sales pitch, not honest input
  • You want us to do most of the talking
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The Offering
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Fractional CTO

$4,500
Per month · 6–10 hrs/month
90-day commitment, then month-to-month
Roughly 22% of a full-time CTO's loaded cost. Below comparable fractional CTO retainers nationally.

What you get

  • Senior technical leadership on retainer — strategy, architecture, hiring, vendor selection, technical debt triage
  • Transformation, Process Excellence, and AI Strategy — specialties most fractional CTOs don't bring
  • Quarterly 90-minute on-site working session, plus on-site when the work calls for it
  • Same-day response when something breaks, next-day otherwise
  • Heavy months (vendor migration, hiring sprint, AI rollout) we'll talk before adding hours

Best for

  • Companies with engineering decisions to make but no full-time CTO
  • Leadership teams that want a trusted, experienced voice on the harder technical calls — second opinion, sounding board, or someone to think it through with
  • Founders who want an experienced technical voice in the room — or on the other end of the line at 9pm when something hard surfaces
  • Teams planning an AI rollout and not sure who should own it
  • Teams that have outgrown a generalist MSP and need real engineering leadership

Anti-fit

  • You want someone to write production code as the primary deliverable (build work scopes separately, see below)
  • You need 30+ hours a month of CTO time — at that point, hire one
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Or: pick a defined-scope engagement

For buyers who want a fixed-fee, named-deliverable project rather than an open-ended retainer. Each engagement is a flat monthly fee × 3 months, priced by the time intensity the work requires. See full milestones & outcomes →

Tech Hire
$2,500/mo
$7,500 over 3 months
Hiring your first dedicated tech lead
Org Culture
$7,000/mo
$21,000 over 3 months
Strategy keeps not happening; values aren't lived
Engineering Baseline
$3,000/mo
$9,000 over 3 months
Honest read on your engineering team
Compliance Push
$4,500/mo
$13,500 over 3 months
SOC2 / HIPAA / AI governance ask incoming
Discovery Sprint
$5,500/mo
$16,500 over 3 months
An idea or stalled product, pre-build
Agile / Operating Model
$6,000/mo
$18,000 over 3 months
Standup theater that isn't producing outcomes
AI Strategy & Pilot
$7,000/mo
$21,000 over 3 months
AI pressure without a clear strategy

How we compare

Honest comparison against the alternatives most Lancaster County buyers consider.

Approach Typical cost Speed to ship Custom code Strategy included
Conestoga Strategies (Fractional CTO + AI specialty) $4.5K/mo CTO · build work scoped inside the engagement Decisions: weeks. Builds: 4–6 weeks. Yes Yes
Generalist MSP $2K–$8K/mo Slow / not their core No No
Off-the-shelf SaaS bundle $200–$2K/mo per tool Fast (but generic fit) No No
National AI agency $25K–$150K project 2–4 months Yes Yes
Full-time hire $200K–$400K/yr loaded 3+ months to hire Yes Yes
Offshore dev shop $25–$60/hr Variable Yes No
Big-name strategy consulting $100K–$3M project 3–6+ months to first deliverable No Yes

Worth a 30-minute conversation?

The Discovery Call is the fastest way to find out whether a Fractional CTO is the right next move — or if you'd be better served some other way. We'll tell you either way.

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Or talk to our AI receptionist now: (717) 366-9431