Guides

Answers from the work, not from the search results.

Each guide answers one question in its first two sentences, then earns the rest with real numbers from our own projects.

• Fractional CTO, full-time CTO or an agency: what does a startup need? Before product-market fit, between two CTOs, or while a vendor builds, most startups need a fractional CTO: the decisions of a CTO without the salary, the equity and the search. A full-time CTO is for when leading the technical team fills the week, and an agency is for when the plan is settled and what you need is a team to build it. The questions you are asking this month tell you which. Related offer: CTO consulting
• How long does an MVP take, and what team does it need? On our own projects, two to three months with one or two builders when the product has one main flow, and six months with three developers plus a CTO or delivery manager when it has several sides, payments and compliance. What sets the length is not the number of screens but the number of parties, integrations and open questions the product carries. Related offer: Product design and development
• Is your vibe-coded app production-ready? Only if it passes the checks a demo never runs: authentication that checks on the server, secrets kept out of the browser, a data model that survives the second feature, tests, and a deploy you can roll back. Below are the 30 points our free rescue audit works through, each one something you can check yourself, with why it matters. Related offer: Vibe code rescue
• Rescue or rebuild: what should you do with an AI-built codebase? Rescue it when the product works, people use it and the data model holds, because then the problems sit in the gaps a demo never shows and can be fixed while the roadmap keeps moving. Rebuild when the data model, the permissions or the framework cannot carry the next feature, and know which before you pay for either: that is what the audit is for. Related offer: Vibe code rescue
• What does technical due diligence check before an investment or an acquisition? It checks whether the technology behind a company can carry the plan the money is paying for: the architecture, the data, security, tests and deployment, the infrastructure and its cost, the team, the licences, and how much of the code AI tools wrote and who read it before it merged. We run it in one week, with the scope agreed first, and the result is a written report with the findings ranked by risk, what to fix before close, and what to price in. Related offer: CTO consulting
• What does a Webflow to Astro migration actually involve? For a 15-page marketing site it took one working week: a one-to-one port of every page into Astro, a redirect map for 33 old URLs, hashed assets with year-long caching, and a structured-data layer rebuilt from one data file. Nothing indexed was lost, because every old URL still answers. Related offer: Migration to Astro