Fractional CTO Playbook

Set up your fractional CTO practice, with Claude as your coach.

A course taught inside Claude. Every lesson ends with something real in your own client management app: contracts ready to sign, invoicing ready to bill, a pipeline with names in it.

The problem

You know the technology. The practice is the hard part.

Going fractional means running a business: contracts, invoicing, insurance, a pipeline, and a way to keep track of five clients at once. Most of us piece it together from templates, spreadsheets and a CRM built for someone else.

The Playbook sets all of it up with you, in your own app, in the order you need it.

What you build

What you have at the end

Your own app

A client management app you own and deploy: clients, pipeline, contracts with e-signing, invoices, meetings, notes and time.

Contracts ready to sign

An MSA and a SOW shaped around how you price, loaded as templates and sent for signature from a client’s page.

Money that flows

Business banking, invoicing settings and retainer tiers, so a signed retainer bills itself.

A pipeline with names in it

Stages that match how you sell, your first real prospects, outreach in your voice, and a public page that files inquiries.

Claude on your practice

Your app connected to Claude, so notes, time, tasks and client health are a sentence away.

A rhythm you keep

A weekly routine for pipeline, client health and invoicing that fits in an hour.

How it works

Seven units, three milestones

  1. 1

    Your app is live

    Units 0–1

    A short intake about your practice, then your tools and your own app: deployed, branded, and connected to Claude.

    • Your practice profile
    • Terminal and Claude Code
    • Your app on Vercel and Supabase
  2. 2

    Ready to sign and bill

    Units 2–3

    Your contracts and your money, set up in your app and your accounts.

    • MSA and SOW templates
    • A test signature end to end
    • Banking, invoicing and retainer tiers
  3. 3

    Open for business

    Units 4–6

    Risk, pipeline and the weekly rhythm that keeps it all running.

    • Insurance and entity checklist
    • Pipeline, prospects and outreach
    • Engagements, time and client health
How it’s taught

A coach, not a video library

Real results, not notes

A unit is done when the thing exists in your app or your accounts, not when you have watched something about it.

Yours from day one

Your app, your data, your accounts. Nothing to cancel and nothing locked in someone else’s platform.

Personal by design

Claude remembers your practice, your pricing and your answers, and shapes every later unit around them.

Who it’s for

A good fit if…

A good fit

  • You are a senior engineer or technology leader going fractional, or just did
  • You want your practice set up properly, not pieced together
  • You are comfortable in a terminal and want Claude doing the busywork

Probably not a fit

  • You want legal, tax or insurance advice (the course prepares you for the professionals, it does not replace them)
  • You are looking for a course on how to code
Pricing

The Fractional CTO Playbook

One payment. Every unit, your own app, and updates as the course grows.

  • Seven units taught inside Claude, each ending in a real result
  • Your own deployable client management app
  • MSA and SOW templates adapted to your practice
  • Your progress, profile and saved work kept between sessions
  • Updates to the course as it grows
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