Senior Engineering Oversight • 15–20 Hours / Month

Senior Technical Oversight & Integration Retainer Without Hiring a Full-Time €100k+ Engineer.

Direct access to a senior consultant for ongoing maintenance, workflow tweaks, integration monitoring, and architectural guidance. Zero junior handoffs, no agency markup.

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Monthly Allocation

15–20 Dedicated Hours / Month

Monthly Retainer

€1,450 / mo (Rolling)

Response SLA

Private Slack + 4h SLA

Leadership Risks

Three pitfalls non-technical founders face as they scale

Making uninformed technical compromises early creates millions in rewrite debt later.

1. Blind Faith in Freelancers or External Agencies

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.

2. Paralysis Over Critical Architecture Decisions

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.

3. The Financial Overhead of an Early Full-Time Hire

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.

Scope Enclosure

What's delivered in your 15–20 monthly hours

Direct access to a senior consultant for ongoing maintenance, workflow tweaks, integration monitoring, and architectural guidance.

✔ Monthly Advisory & Support Deliverables

  • ■ Integration Telemetry & Health Monitoring: Ongoing monitoring of critical API webhooks, governor limit consumption, and failure isolate queues.
  • ■ Workflow Tweaks & Flow Refactoring: Direct adjustments to Apex triggers, automation flows, and Salesforce formula fields without hiring an in-house engineer.
  • ■ Pull Request & External Code Audits: Independent technical reviews of PRs submitted by outside agencies or contractors to uphold performance and security.
  • ■ Architectural Decision Records (ADRs): Formal written documentation evaluating database schemas, cloud infrastructure, third-party vendor selection, and data models.
  • ■ Bi-Weekly Strategic Syncs: Two dedicated 45-minute video calls with leadership to audit velocity and eliminate technical bottlenecks.
  • ■ Direct Asynchronous Slack/Teams Channel: Private direct channel with guaranteed senior engineer response within 4 business hours for urgent inquiries.
  • ■ SOC2 & Compliance Preparedness: Review of access controls, encryption, backup schedules, and secrets management to pass diligence and compliance audits.

✖ What is NOT Included (Strict Boundaries)

  • ✕ Full-time day-to-day tactical feature coding (this is an executive steering role; tactical build sprints can be booked at preferred client rates).
  • ✕ Direct HR line management, performance reviews, or personal dispute management of internal employees.
  • ✕ 24/7 on-call pager duty (we architect monitoring systems and automated alerts for your operations team instead).
Retainer Cadence

How the advisory relationship operates

PHASE 01 — MONTH 1, WEEK 1

Technical Baseline Audit

Under mutual NDA, we inspect your repositories, cloud architecture, agency contracts, and roadmap backlog to create a prioritized Technical Risk & Opportunity Matrix.

PHASE 02 — ONGOING CADENCE

Steering, PRs & Slack

Bi-weekly leadership calls, PR reviews on high-risk code paths, developer candidate interviews, vendor quotes vetting, and responsive Slack guidance.

PHASE 03 — EVERY 30 DAYS

Monthly Governance Report

Written summary of architectural milestones completed, active risks mitigated, hours logged, and strategic recommendations for the next cycle.

Retainer Pricing

Senior engineering executive in your corner.

Monthly Retainer

Fractional Integration & Admin Retainer

€1,450

per month • 15–20 hours dedicated

Retainer Inclusions:

  • ✓ 15–20 dedicated hours per calendar month
  • ✓ Private Slack / Teams with 4-hour SLA
  • ✓ Integration telemetry & workflow tweaks
  • ✓ Candidate vetting & PR code audits

Retainer Terms:

  • ✓ 3-month initial commitment, rolling 30-day term
  • ✓ Strictly capped at 3 clients concurrently
  • ✓ Preferential rate for burst hours (€95/hr)
  • ✓ Direct advisory with Waleed Rafique
Reserve Monthly Capacity (€1,450/mo)
Technical FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who specifically will be serving as our Fractional CTO?

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.

How are the monthly hours allocated?

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.

What if we have a sudden technical crisis or need burst capacity?

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.

How does this differ from hiring a development agency?

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.

Apply for Retainer

Get Executive Engineering Leadership in Your Corner.

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.

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