--- title: "Blog" canonical: https://wavect.io/blog/overview/page/17/ language: en description: "Browse a curated front page, then move through focused topic and cluster hubs without losing older work to chronology." image: "https://wavect.io/img/general/bak/open_graph_preview.jpg" --- FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №165 # Opinions, Not Press Releases Browse a curated front page, then move through focused topic and cluster hubs without losing older work to chronology. ## Latest articles Nine articles per page, ordered by publication date. ### [Fractional CTO Day Rates in Austria](/blog/fractional-cto-austria-day-rates/) - **Details:** Leadership & Teams · 26 May 2026 Honest day rate bands for a fractional CTO in Innsbruck, Vienna, Linz. What EUR/day actually buys at Pre-seed, Seed, Series A, and scale-up. ### [EU AI Act Cost for a 5-Person Startup](/blog/eu-ai-act-compliance-cost-startup/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 26 May 2026 Line-item EUR 30 to 80k breakdown. Legal review, risk classification, technical documentation, conformity assessment, data governance, post-market monitoring. ### [Werkvertrag vs T&M for Austrian SaaS](/blog/werkvertrag-vs-time-material-austrian-saas/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 26 May 2026 Who owns scope risk, how acceptance works under ABGB, how bookkeeping treats each, and when to pick which contract model for an Austrian build. ### [Products We Shipped. How Many Failed](/blog/products-shipped-failure-benchmark/) - **Details:** Product & MVP · 26 May 2026 Aggregate outcome distribution across Wavect-shipped products. How many scaled, how many sunset, how many landed in the boring middle. ### [21 Web3 Mandates. Gas Cost Hindsight](/blog/web3-mandates-gas-cost-l1-l2-hindsight/) - **Details:** Web3 & Privacy · 26 May 2026 Where gas costs actually accrued across 21 builds, and what we would chain-pick today. Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base, Solana compared. ### [Scope-Creep Rates. Our Numbers](/blog/fixed-price-vs-tm-scope-creep-rates/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 26 May 2026 Actual scope-change frequency across fixed-price and time-and-material engagements. Why a signed Werkvertrag SoW is the contract feature, not the price. ### [When a Fractional CTO Beats Hiring](/blog/fractional-cto-when-to-hire-austria/) - **Details:** Leadership & Teams · 26 May 2026 Loaded year-one cost of an in-house senior CTO in Austria versus a fractional retainer. When each wins, when each is wrong. ### [MiCA + FMA Reality Austria 2026](/blog/mica-fma-crypto-licensing-austria-2026/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 26 May 2026 Engineering perspective on the Austrian crypto rulebook. CASP categories, capital floors, FMA touch-points, and the questions founders keep asking. ### [GDPR + EU AI Act for DACH SaaS](/blog/gdpr-ai-act-stacking-dach-saas/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 26 May 2026 The compliance stack for a 5-person team. Decision tree on Annex III risk, plus the matrix of who owns which control. Inbox, without the noise ## Follow the work that matters to you Get a short email when we publish something new. 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