Who is the Fractional Tech Lead engagement best for?

Established B2B businesses or founder-led companies with real users, real revenue, and a small team where the technical weight feels like it needs a CTO, but the budget or certainty doesn't yet support a full-time hire.

Can I cancel the Fractional Tech Lead engagement?

Yes. Cancel with 30 days' notice. The codebase, decisions and team docs are maintained as we go and owned by you throughout.

Work with us | The Coconut Studio

The Coconut Studio works with established B2B teams and founder-led businesses that need senior product and tech hands without a full-time hire. Three engagements, scoped to the work you actually need.

Tech Audit

1–2 weeks · £5k

A senior look at your stack, team, and what AI actually changes — with a written plan you own.

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Fractional Tech Lead

3–6 months · from £6k/mo

Senior product and engineering leadership embedded in your team. The CTO you don't yet need full-time.

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Embedded Build

Project · from £15k

We build the thing — feature, product, integration, migration — alongside your team and ship it to production.

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Tech Audit

A senior look at your codebase, infrastructure, team, and what AI actually changes for your business — with a written plan you own.

1–2 weeks · £5k

What's included

Stack & codebase review
Team, process & delivery review
AI capability assessment — build vs buy, integration paths, eval & cost
Performance, security & accessibility check
Written report with prioritised recommendations
90-minute walkthrough call

What you'll have at the end

A written plan you can act on with us, with another partner, or on your own. No tie-in. The audit fee is credited against any engagement that follows in the next 90 days.

Best fit for

B2B teams or founder-led businesses with a working product and a team, who suspect they're behind, ahead, or off-target on AI and want a senior second opinion. Not a fit for pre-product founders — you don't need an audit yet.

Fractional Tech Lead

Senior product and engineering leadership embedded in your team — the CTO you don't yet need full-time.

3–6 month engagement · from £6k/mo

What's included

Engineering & product leadership across your team
Roadmap, priorities and trade-offs alongside your founder/CEO
Hiring, vendor and contractor decisions made with you
AI integration — chosen, built, run and reviewed properly (eval, cost, latency, fallbacks)
Architecture, security and performance reviews
Weekly cadence with the team, monthly with leadership

How we work

Three- or six-month engagements with Kaan personally as the senior lead, and a trusted network brought in where it helps. Cancel with 30 days' notice. Codebase, decisions and team docs maintained as we go, owned by you.

Best fit for

Established B2B businesses or founder-led companies with real users, real revenue, and a small team. The technical weight feels like it needs a CTO, but the budget or the certainty doesn't yet support a full-time hire.

Embedded Build

We build the thing — feature, product, integration, migration — alongside your team and ship it to production.

Project · from £15k

What's included

Scoped project: feature, integration, migration, or focused build
Designed and engineered by senior hands
AI features done properly — eval, cost, latency, fallbacks
Auth, payments, third-party integrations as needed
Performance and accessibility built in
Production launch with documentation and 30 days of post-launch support

What you'll have at the end

A live thing in production, on infrastructure you control, with a team that knows how it works. Codebase documented and handed over, no lock-in.

Best fit for

Businesses that have identified a specific problem and need it shipped — properly, by someone senior, alongside the team you already have. Not a fit for greenfield "build my whole product" work — for that you want the Fractional Tech Lead engagement plus a real engineering team behind it.

Curious how an engagement actually runs?

See our process

Something else?

If your project doesn't fit one of these three shapes, get in touch anyway. The studio also handles brand work, websites, and the long tail of projects past collaborators come back for.

Tell us what you need