Scale the product.
Not the tech debt.
CTO-level architecture without hiring a full-time CTO. We swap your founder code for a system that reaches Series B β before backend spaghetti starts eating your runway.
Three situations where people call us
MVP shipped in 2 months β now it doesn't scale
v1 went live in 60 days. Traffic grew 10Γ, and you're staring at 500ms response times, a DB on its knees and deploys killing production. You need a refactor, but don't know where to start.
Investor asks for architecture β the code is spaghetti
Due diligence in 3 weeks. The fund wants diagrams, data flow, a tech roadmap. You have one file with 4000 lines and "we got it" in Slack.
You're hiring your first devs β who sets the bar?
You signed offers for a senior and two mids. They start in a month. But there's no code review process, no standards, no CI/CD, no tests. The first hires will lock in their habits β and you won't reverse that later.
Six things we fix most often
Refactor roadmap
A concrete plan β which module to rebuild when, without stopping the business. Every step with estimate and risk.
Architecture review for your round
C4 diagrams, data-flow docs, SOC2-readiness. Material that survives a tech DD session with your fund.
DevOps & CI/CD setup
Pipelines, monitoring, observability, infra-as-code. So an 11pm Friday deploy doesn't end in a call to the CEO.
Four signals it's time to talk
You raised β¬500kβ5M
Pre-seed or seed closed. Money in the bank, but the tech team is small and every week lost on refactor equals burned runway.
Tech team: 2β15 people
You have a CTO-founder or a senior dev, but you miss someone who has seen 5 similar products from a bird's-eye view. Not a full-time role β a perspective.
Scaling from 1k to 100k users
The MVP worked for 100 clients. Now 50k are coming. An architecture nobody designed for this volume starts cracking.
Prep for due diligence
Series A in 3β9 months. The fund will bring a tech auditor. Better to let them see what you want shown β not what is.
What we won't sell you
We are NOT a body-shop
We don't staff juniors by the hour. We work as an external tech-lead team β architectural decisions, not ticket-grinding.
We do NOT build MVPs from scratch
Unless we agree your case is special. If you need someone to build v1 from zero β there are better firms for that. We come in once the MVP is alive.
We do NOT replace the CEO or product lead
We don't decide what the product should do. We decide how it should be built. The vision is yours. The architecture β ours.
Hiring a CTO or senior dev?
For startups we run wiseHire β a technical recruitment portal with ready-to-use tasks, a pool of vetted candidates and interview support. Hire your first people faster and without the lottery.
See wiseHireRecent work
Startups we already work with:
Show us where you'll be stuck in 6 months
60 minutes with a Softwise tech lead. You show the architecture and backlog β we tell you what breaks first and what to do about it. Free, no strings.
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