Direct access to a senior consultant for ongoing maintenance, workflow tweaks, integration monitoring, and architectural guidance. Zero junior handoffs, no agency markup.
Making uninformed technical compromises early creates millions in rewrite debt later.
You are spending €8k–€25k every month on outsourced developers or dev shops without someone on your side of the table auditing their code quality, architecture choices, or invoice hours.
Debating whether to rebuild in microservices, choosing between AWS and GCP, picking an ERP, or vetting a third-party vendor freezes business progress for months due to lack of senior validation.
Recruiting a proven full-time senior engineer or CTO demands €100k–€180k base salary plus recruiting fees and overhead—massive overhead when your company only needs 15–20 hours a month of high-leverage oversight.
Direct access to a senior consultant for ongoing maintenance, workflow tweaks, integration monitoring, and architectural guidance.
Under mutual NDA, we inspect your repositories, cloud architecture, agency contracts, and roadmap backlog to create a prioritized Technical Risk & Opportunity Matrix.
Bi-weekly leadership calls, PR reviews on high-risk code paths, developer candidate interviews, vendor quotes vetting, and responsive Slack guidance.
Written summary of architectural milestones completed, active risks mitigated, hours logged, and strategic recommendations for the next cycle.
€1,450
per month • 15–20 hours dedicated
Retainer Inclusions:
Retainer Terms:
Waleed Rafique, Founder of Oaklogix. You work directly with a senior engineer and technical leader with over 10 years of software engineering experience across enterprise integrations, backend systems, and cloud architectures.
Flexibly based on your immediate priorities. Typically, it splits into proactive integration monitoring, webhook error triage, Apex and automation flow tweaks, PR code reviews, and bi-weekly strategic roadmap syncs.
Retainer clients receive priority scheduling and a guaranteed 4-hour SLA on weekdays. Additional burst hours beyond 20 are billed at a discounted retainer rate of €95 / $110 per hour with prior written approval.
We sit on your side of the table. Agencies make money by billing as many developer hours as possible. Our sole objective as your fractional technical officer is to protect your capital, minimize technical bloat, and prevent expensive architectural missteps.
Book an initial discovery call with Waleed to discuss your current roadmap and see if the Fractional CTO retainer is the right fit.
✔ Strictly limited to 3 concurrent scale-up retainers (1 slot open).
✔ Direct access to Waleed Rafique (Founder & Senior Engineer).
✔ Rolling 30-day agreement following initial 3 months.