Hire Fractional CTO for SaaS Companies
Senior, direct, no layers

A SaaS company does not have one big sale to win; it has a hundred small moments that decide whether a trial converts, a team invites colleagues, and a renewal happens without a fight. When any of those moments is rough — a confusing signup, a billing surprise, a feature nobody discovers, a support answer that takes days — churn creeps up quietly, and the team only notices it in the monthly numbers.

The usual response is to add features, but the leak is rarely a missing feature. It is onboarding that leaves new users unsure what to do first, pricing and billing pages that create support tickets, product guidance that lives in docs nobody opens, and marketing that promises one thing while the product shows another. Fixing those moments is unglamorous, measurable work, and it compounds: every point of activation gained shows up in conversion and retention month after month.

A fractional CTO gives trial-to-paid conversion and customer retention senior technology leadership without a full-time hire: setting direction, choosing the stack, managing vendors and engineers, and making sure technology spending serves the business plan. The engagement is senior-only and direct: you work with Omer, the scope is agreed before build, and the work is judged on what changes in trial-to-paid conversion and customer retention — not on hours logged or deliverables counted. Book a free discovery call and we will test the fit before any scope is agreed.

SaaS teams typically run billing through Stripe Billing or Chargebee, product analytics through Segment, Mixpanel, or Pendo, customer success through Gainsight or Totango, and CRM and marketing through HubSpot or Salesforce, with Intercom or Zendesk on support. The product itself is usually tracked in Linear or a similar tool and designed in Figma. New work has to plug into that stack — events flowing to analytics, billing states reflected in the product, and support context available where customers actually ask for help.

Fractional CTO work covers your whole stack — Chargebee, Pendo, your CRM, and the product platform — with decisions documented so leadership can see why a choice was made, not just what it cost.

That discipline matters because the failure mode of outside help is usually a new tool nobody maintains. Work that lives inside Chargebee and your CRM survives the engagement; work that lives in a separate spreadsheet or dashboard dies the week the engagement ends. Every build here is therefore judged on whether your team can run it afterwards without the person who built it.

For a SaaS company, realistic outcomes are visible in product metrics: trial-to-paid conversion, time to first value, feature adoption, expansion, and churn. A good engagement moves one or two of those numbers and shows its working in your own analytics, rather than reporting activity such as pages shipped or posts published.

No prices, guarantees, or client results are promised on this page, because the honest answer depends on your starting point: the state of your systems, the quality of your data, and how much of trial-to-paid conversion and customer retention is actually broken today. The discovery conversation exists to establish that baseline before any commitment is made.