WAVECT vs OTHER FRACTIONAL CTOs

Wavect vs another fractional CTO. What makes the comparison fair?

Most fractional CTOs sell time slots. We sell a founder-grade operator who also writes code, working with a small senior team. Same label, different jobs. Pick the pure advisor if you already have engineers. Pick us if you need both jobs in one person.

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“Our previous fractional was great at architecture review. He was not in the room when we needed to kill a feature. The fractional title covers two completely different jobs.”

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How they actually differ

Six dimensions where the two flavors of fractional diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

€400 to €20,000 per week. Outcome billed.

PRICING MODEL

€150 to €400 per hour, often 10 to 20 hours per month.

Four to twelve week sprints, scoped.

ENGAGEMENT LENGTH

Monthly retainer, often indefinite.

Founder-operator plus a small senior team.

WHO YOU ACTUALLY TALK TO

One advisor. You handle execution with your team.

We advise AND ship. The same person who wrote the doc writes the code.

SCOPE OWNERSHIP

They advise. You or your team implements.

Cancel any week.

EXIT TERMS

Usually month to month.

Refund the last week if it did not blow you away.

WHAT IF IT FAILS

Hours billed. No outcome guarantee.

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When each is the better call

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When Wavect is the better call

  • You need both the advice and the execution. There is no engineering team to hand the advice to.
  • Pre product-market fit. The product question is open and you do not yet have engineers to implement against the advice.
  • You want pushback that comes with implementation responsibility. We have to ship what we recommend.
  • You want one bill, one person, one accountability line. Not advisor plus contractors plus stitching.
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When a pure fractional CTO is the better call

  • You already have engineers in house. The bottleneck is senior review and architecture, not throughput.
  • You are already shipping but want a quarterly architecture sanity check or hiring assist.
  • Post product-market fit. You need strategic guidance, not someone in the trenches with you.
  • You want a long-term retainer relationship that survives multiple product cycles, not a sprint-driven engagement.

If the bullets on the right describe your situation, the pure-advisor fractional is the right pick. If the bullets on the left describe it, talk to us.

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Relevant Wavect work

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FAQs

FAQs

Most fractional CTOs do not write the code. We do. If your team is going to need a thirty-minute decision on whether to ship a feature, a pure fractional will give you the framework. We will give you the framework, write the migration, and review the PR. Different unit of work.
Per hour, yes. Per shipped outcome, usually not. A €300 per hour advisor who gives clean architecture guidance is great if you have engineers to act on it. If you do not, the guidance compounds slowly. Our weekly fee includes both the guidance and the implementation.
Yes. We do this regularly. The existing advisor stays on for strategic continuity and we run a sprint against a specific outcome. The accountability lines stay clean because the scopes are different.
Yes, but inside the Wavect engagement. We bring known senior contractors under our SoW so the accountability line stays with us. We do not run an external referral business.
Discovery Phase at €3,500 for two to three weeks. That produces architecture, milestone plan, and a fixed-price offer for the build. Most founders comparing fractional services start there.
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