Senior technical leadership,
part-time, MENA-priced.
If you are a Series A-B startup in Egypt or the GCC, hiring a full-time CTO costs $150K-$300K in the GCC market and is brutal to recruit. A fractional CTO retainer gives you the same strategic depth, part-time, at MENA-realistic rates.
Strategic technical leadership, on retainer.
- →Architecture review and design (your current stack, your proposed stack)
- →Technology roadmap planning (next 3, 6, 12 months)
- →Build vs buy analysis on every major investment
- →Vendor evaluation and procurement support
- →Team technical oversight (code review, hiring loops, technical onboarding)
- →Monthly executive readout for board / investors
- →On-call WhatsApp for technical decisions inside business hours
Persona C in our 2026 ICP: CTO at a growth-stage startup.
If you are a founder who needs senior technical leadership but cannot justify a $200K CTO hire yet, this retainer bridges that gap. We embed with your engineering team part-time, attend your weekly engineering syncs, and own the strategic technical decisions until you are ready to hire full-time. Most engagements last 6-18 months before clients graduate to a full-time hire.
- →Series A-B funded startups, 8-40 engineers
- →MENA-headquartered or MENA-anchored (Egypt, UAE, KSA)
- →Founder-led, fast decision cycle
- →Need to ship internal AI / automation infrastructure in weeks, not quarters
- →Want to avoid the recruiting tax on senior MENA AI talent
$2,500-$6,000 / mo. Published, not opaque.
Egypt: $2,500-$4,000/mo. GCC (Kuwait, UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman): $3,500-$6,000/mo. 3-month minimum. The retainer includes a fixed time block plus on-call WhatsApp access during MENA business hours. Out-of-scope work (deep implementation, multi-day workshops) is priced separately.
Talk through your engineering bottleneck in 15 minutes.
Tell us the size of your team, the stack, the most expensive technical decision on your roadmap. We will tell you whether a fractional CTO retainer is the right call, or if a Quick-Win Build is faster.