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Leadership & TeamsFractional CTO Day Rates in Austria
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.
Business & RegulationEU AI Act Cost for a 5-Person Startup
Line-item EUR 30 to 80k breakdown. Legal review, risk classification, technical documentation, conformity assessment, data governance, post-market monitoring.
Business & RegulationWerkvertrag vs T&M for Austrian SaaS
Who owns scope risk, how acceptance works under ABGB, how bookkeeping treats each, and when to pick which contract model for an Austrian build.
Product & MVPProducts We Shipped. How Many Failed
Aggregate outcome distribution across Wavect-shipped products. How many scaled, how many sunset, how many landed in the boring middle.
Web3 & Privacy21 Web3 Mandates. Gas Cost Hindsight
Where gas costs actually accrued across 21 builds, and what we would chain-pick today. Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Base, Solana compared.
Business & RegulationScope-Creep Rates. Our Numbers
Actual scope-change frequency across fixed-price and time-and-material engagements. Why a signed Werkvertrag SoW is the contract feature, not the price.
Leadership & TeamsWhen a Fractional CTO Beats Hiring
Loaded year-one cost of an in-house senior CTO in Austria versus a fractional retainer. When each wins, when each is wrong.
Business & RegulationMiCA + FMA Reality Austria 2026
Engineering perspective on the Austrian crypto rulebook. CASP categories, capital floors, FMA touch-points, and the questions founders keep asking.
Business & RegulationGDPR + EU AI Act for DACH SaaS
The compliance stack for a 5-person team. Decision tree on Annex III risk, plus the matrix of who owns which control.
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