CTO-in-a-box · for non-tech founders
Hello, future founder.
You built the MVP.
All you're missing is a CTO to scale and secure it.
Stop scrolling through resumes you can't fully judge. Stop burning runway on a full-time exec. For €27, you get the same thing a senior CTO would hand you in their first two weeks — how to scale your MVP safely, lock down your data, and ship to real customers without things breaking.
How it works
Three steps. Thirty minutes. The CTO playbook your MVP needs to grow.
- 01
Tell us what you've built.
Two sentences about your MVP. We figure out the kind of product you have — SaaS, mobile app, marketplace, game, device companion — and skip the irrelevant questions. No 80-question survey for a 6-question idea.
Reads your idea · picks the right questions
- 02
Answer a handful of plain-English questions.
How many users do you expect? Do you handle payments? Will customers upload private data? Every answer becomes a decision a CTO would otherwise make for you — written down, justified, ready to act on. Autosaves as you type.
Plain English · resumable · works on your phone
- 03
Pay €27. Your CTO's first two weeks land in 30 minutes.
We deliver the technical plan, the security checklist, the things to fix first, and the things never to break — emailed as a zip and pushed straight to your GitHub. Hand it to your developer or your AI coding agent, and they ship without guesswork.
Email + GitHub PR · refundable for 7 days
Pushed to your repo
Your developer starts shipping before lunch.
Connect your GitHub once. We open a pull request with the whole plan inside it — your developer reviews, merges, gets to work. No dragging files around. No back-and-forth.
- A real pull request. Reviewable, mergeable, your team can comment on it like any other change.
- Minimum access. We ask permission for one repo only. Nothing else on your account.
- AI-agent ready. Tools like Claude Code and Cursor pick up the rules and start shipping with senior supervision baked in.
Add ctobox plan
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What's coming
We didn't stop at the blueprint.
ctobox is becoming the full founder bench — the docs, the numbers, the deck. All in the same voice as your scaffold.
- NextIn design
Founder tech reference
A pocket-sized guide to every choice in your blueprint — what each piece does, why we picked it, what to ask your engineer about it. So you can talk to your team like you wrote it.
- SoonIn design
Business plan, drafted with you
Market, model, GTM, unit economics, hiring plan. Same opinionated voice. Same 30-minute promise.
- AfterIn design
Investor pitch deck
Ten slides, your story, written in the language investors actually fund. Auto-rendered to a deck you can edit.
You have the plan. Now what?
Four ways to take your MVP to market.
The CTO playbook is yours. Pick the path that fits how you work — or talk to us and we'll take your MVP all the way to real customers, end to end.
- 01
Hand it to your developer.
The freelancer or engineer you already have. Every decision is justified in plain language — they stop guessing, you stop paying for guesswork.
- 02
Hire confidently.
Now you know exactly what good looks like. Interview candidates against the plan instead of nodding along to a resume you can't fully judge.
- 03
Point an AI agent at it.
Tools like Claude Code or Cursor read the plan, follow the rules, and ship the work. Your AI coding agent has senior supervision baked in.
- 04
Let us take it to market.
Architects, engineers, business consultants — the team that wrote the playbook. We turn your MVP into a product real customers pay for.
Build with us
Don't want to manage any of this? We'll take your MVP from here and ship it to real customers.
From the first paying customer to thousands of them. Architects, engineers, and business consultants — the same team that wrote the playbook. Drop a note, we set up a quick call and scope it together. No retainer drama.
One line, one idea, one outcome. We'll reply within a working day.
Pricing
€27 for your CTO playbook.
One charge. The same plan a senior CTO would hand you in their first two weeks — for less than the cost of a single hour of their time. Pro and Agency add GitHub delivery and a recurring quota for teams that ship often.
FAQ
Honest answers before you spend €27.
If your question is not here, write to us — the address is at the bottom of the page.