Fractional CTO & Technology Consulting - Cape Town
You don't need more technology. You need the right decisions.
Xethos provides fractional CTO services and senior engineering leadership for founders, startups, and growing companies. We embed in your team, make architecture decisions, build technology roadmaps, and hire your first engineers - at a fraction of the cost of a full-time technical executive.
What we do
From architecture decisions to hiring your first engineer - here's where we go deep.
Fractional CTO
Senior technical leadership without the full-time hire. Architecture decisions, roadmap planning, and engineering direction - embedded in your team.
For non-technical founders who need a technical partner
Technology Strategy
Translate business goals into technical plans. Stack selection, scaling strategy, and build-vs-buy decisions grounded in real experience.
For leadership teams making critical technology decisions
Automation & AI
Practical automation and AI integration that reduces manual work and unlocks new capabilities. Grounded in what actually works.
For companies with manual processes ripe for automation
Small Business Technology
Replace spreadsheets with proper systems. Business intelligence, workflow automation, and the right tools - without overcomplicating things.
For small businesses running on spreadsheets and manual processes
Backend Architecture
Scalable backend systems, API integrations, and resilient architectures built around the messy reality of third-party services.
For companies with complex integration requirements
Data Engineering
Data pipelines, ETL processes, and analytics infrastructure that turn raw operational data into business insights.
For companies sitting on valuable data they can't easily access
See what working with us looks like.
Your own portal for proposals, agreements, progress, meeting notes and invoices, and an assistant you can ask about any of it.
Illustration: a meeting summary grouped into Decisions, Your action items and Open questions.
Illustration: a project card marked On track with four milestones, two done and one in progress.
Illustration: the assistant listing three things waiting, each with a link, in reply to what is waiting on me.
We listen first. We build what matters. We stay.
Listen first
Build what matters
Stay
Track record
Years of engineering leadership across ecommerce, fintech, and telecom
API integrations designed, built, and maintained in production
Engineering teams built and scaled from zero
Engagement models
Flexible arrangements designed around your needs, not ours. Pick one to see what it looks like from your side.
We join your team as a fractional technology leader. Regular cadence, full context, ongoing direction. Like having a CTO on speed dial.
- Cadence
- A fixed number of days each week, in your meetings and your tools.
- Best for
- Founders and leadership teams without a CTO, or between CTOs.
- What you get
- Architecture decisions, the roadmap, hiring, and the vendor calls.
- How it is billed
- Monthly, for the days agreed up front.
Illustration: a project card marked On track with four milestones, two done and one in progress.
What you see in the portal: the project we are driving, its milestones, and the latest update after every check-in.
Let's talk about your technology
Whether you need a fractional CTO, a technology strategy review, or just a conversation with someone who's seen it before - we'd like to hear from you.