Solidmatics provides Fractional CTO services, positioned as an external source of engineering leadership for startups and SaaS teams. Unlike common advisory-style services, it emphasizes that the fractional CTO actually takes over engineering management, assuming responsibilities such as architecture decisions, team hiring, vendor selection, and infrastructure setup, and remains continuously involved until product delivery, rather than merely submitting plans or diagnostic reports. The official website states that the scope of service is comparable to a full-time CTO, at 15% to 40% of the cost of a full-time CTO, and typically can start within days.
The main capabilities center on engineering leadership and delivery: helping teams that do not yet have a CTO choose a tech stack, design architecture, and drive the MVP to launch; for teams hiring engineers for the first time, writing job postings, conducting interviews, and onboarding, then continuing to lead that team; for situations where a team already exists but delivery is stalled, entering the team to investigate blockers and lead the turnaround; taking over technical decisions for founders to reduce their becoming a bottleneck; coordinating product and engineering goals so the roadmap matches actual delivery capacity; in AI feature implementation, selecting suitable scenarios, delivering pipelines and agents, and adding safeguards to prevent models from affecting the production environment; auditing access permissions, backups, and infrastructure and leading remediation, with the official website stating the team holds AWS certification; in technical due diligence for fundraising, participating in investor communication, answering questions related to the tech stack, security, and team, and addressing potential issues in advance.
The onboarding process typically consists of four steps: a 30-minute discovery call to understand the current situation and problems; a diagnostic phase to review the team, processes, technology, and goals, and if necessary conduct a SolidPulse™ audit; producing an action plan with execution commitments, clarifying fixes, hiring targets, and organizational structure; finally, the fractional CTO embeds in the team, providing hands-on engineering and coaching until the team can operate independently. The official website states that from the first call to the fractional CTO leading the team is usually completed within two weeks, without the need for a three-month scoping document.
SolidPulse™ is its technical health scoring tool, presenting engineering conditions as a single number from 0 to 100, using a method that combines automated scans with structured interviews, to measure the gap between management's perception and the team's actual experience. The official website believes the real risk often lies in this gap.
The applicable scenarios include: bootstrap or early-stage funded founders who need a technical leader and need someone to build their team for them; those who want one engagement to cover strategy, architecture, and delivery; those who need to build their first engineering team in the right way; those who want someone with practical experience to build AI capabilities into the product; those tired of advice without execution. The official website also lists unsuitable situations.: Only wanting development outsourcing without strategic involvement, only pursuing the lowest hourly rate, hoping to get full-time employees at part-time prices, unwilling to change processes or ways of working, already having an internal technical leadership layer handling this.
Regarding the team, the lead Vygandas Pliasas has been writing code and leading engineering teams since 2006, and currently serves as a part-time CTO and CPO at several companies in the United States and Europe, and is actually responsible for engineering and product at one of the AI platforms. The official website states that behind him are senior operators focused on cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and software architecture, rather than subcontractors.
Pricing, contract terms, specific price tiers, the detailed methodology of SolidPulse™, service regional restrictions, refund policy, etc., are not yet provided in the materials.
