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When your CTO quits, a fractional CTO covers interim technical leadership, and you hire engineers fast. Arca.ph does not supply a fractional CTO or an interim CTO. Arca.ph is a network of remote engineers from around the world. Your own AI agent searches and sorts that network. You pay a one-time 15% fee of first-year pay, and only if you hire.
When your CTO quits, the company has two jobs, and they run at the same time. One job is interim technical leadership. The other is hiring engineers fast. Pause either one and the roadmap slips.
Leadership means someone who can make the hard calls this week: production incidents, architecture, and which roles to open. Hiring means the people who build. A fractional CTO can cover leadership. Hire the engineers on the Arca.ph network.
Arca.ph does not supply a fractional CTO or an interim CTO. Arca.ph is a network of remote engineers from around the world. Your own AI agent, such as Grok, Claude, or ChatGPT, searches and sorts that network. You choose who to meet.
An interim CTO is temporary technical leadership while a full-time CTO search runs. A fractional CTO is that same leadership on a part-week schedule. Either person sets direction, reviews architecture, and keeps engineers unblocked.
Name the decisions that cannot wait this week. Ask a leader who has already run engineers to cover those decisions. Agree the days each week, the decisions they own, and how you will reach them. Tie the end of that coverage to the full-time CTO search.
To hire fractional CTO leadership, talk with people who have led a team and can explain architecture they owned. Agree pay with that leader directly. That agreement is separate from an Arca.ph introduction, so the 15% fee does not apply to it.
How to hire a CTO is a slower search. You are looking for a leader who will own the team, the architecture, and the hiring bar. Talk with people who have done that job. Ask them to walk through a hard decision they made and what they would change.
Keep the engineer search moving while the CTO search runs. The product still needs people who can ship. Hire those engineers now, on a parallel track.
Hiring engineers fast is the track Arca.ph is built for. Skip reading every resume. Write the job, let your AI agent rank the network, then test and interview only the top few.
No AI agent? You can still read every profile and follow the same steps.
Already have a pile of applicants? Candidate screening: score every applicant, then test only the top few. To hire a developer fast, read How to hire a developer fast. To see what to know about a developer before you hire, read Vetted software developers: what to know before you hire. To hire without a recruiter, read How to hire remote developers without a staffing agency or recruiter. To see the fee next to a monthly markup, read Staffing agency markup rates: how to hire your developer directly. To see how an assistant searches the network, read Searching for developers with your own AI assistant: how it works. To see how much recruiters charge, read How much do recruiters charge, and are recruiter fees worth it.
This is free after you sign up and sign the Arca.ph Client Agreement. It is expected pay, location, working hours and US time overlap, the resume, LinkedIn activity and recommendations, DevPost wins, published apps, and testimonials.
This is paid. A real person watches. It is proctored English, cognitive and coding tests with or without AI, the AI-build hackathon, the pair-programming Fire Drill, and recorded reference checks. You pay for the tests you order.
On the marketplace, you search with your own AI agent. Profiles are free to view once you sign up and sign the Arca.ph Client Agreement. You pay for the tests you order. If you hire someone Arca.ph introduced, you pay a one-time 15% fee of first-year pay, charged only on hire. A developer paid $3,000 a month earns $36,000 a year, so the fee is $5,400, once. You hire and pay the developer directly. If the hire is not the right fit, there is a 3-month free replacement. See pricing and Staffing agency markup rates: how to hire your developer directly.
Done for you is the other way to hire an engineer. You bring the job. The Arca.ph team finds the people. Proctored English, cognitive and coding tests are included. The fee is 35% of first-year pay, charged once on hire. You still hire and pay the developer directly. There is a 3-month free replacement. That option hires an engineer. It does not supply a fractional CTO.
Create your account and start looking. Profiles are free to view once you sign up and sign the Arca.ph Client Agreement.
A fractional CTO is a senior technical leader who works part of the week. They set direction, review architecture, and keep engineers unblocked while a full-time CTO search runs. Arca.ph does not supply a fractional CTO. Arca.ph is a network of remote engineers from around the world that your own AI agent searches and sorts.
When your CTO quits, run two tracks at once. Cover leadership with an interim CTO or a fractional CTO you arrange. Hire the engineers the product still needs so the roadmap does not stop. On Arca.ph, your own AI agent searches the network and ranks who fits. You test and interview only the top few.
How to hire a CTO is separate from hiring engineers. Talk with people who have led a team and can explain architecture they owned. While that search runs, hire engineers on Arca.ph. Your AI agent ranks the network. You pay a one-time 15% fee of first-year pay, only if you hire.
An interim CTO is temporary technical leadership while you hire a full-time CTO. A fractional CTO is that same leadership on a part-week schedule. Either person covers direction and architecture review. Arca.ph does not supply an interim CTO. Use Arca.ph to hire the engineers who build, for a one-time 15% fee of first-year pay, only if you hire.
What the candidate tells us is free. It is expected pay, location, working hours and US time overlap, the resume, LinkedIn activity and recommendations, DevPost wins, published apps, and testimonials. What the candidate shows us is paid. It is proctored English, cognitive and coding tests with or without AI, the AI-build hackathon, the pair-programming Fire Drill, and recorded reference checks.
On the marketplace, Arca.ph charges a one-time 15% fee of first-year pay, only if you hire someone it introduced. A developer paid $3,000 a month earns $36,000 a year, so the fee is $5,400, once. Done for you is 35% of first-year pay, charged once on hire. You hire and pay the developer directly. There is a 3-month free replacement.
Profiles are free to view once you sign up and sign the Arca.ph Client Agreement.