After the build
After the build, we keep it running and keep building.
One monthly price, shared in your written proposal. Only after STOA has built something for you: an entry build or a custom build. Never sold on its own.
- Changes
- 8 hours a month
- Review
- 60 minutes, monthly
- Our role
- Your fractional CTO
- Term
- 3 months, then monthly
What it buys
Everything we built stays running
The server, the data copy, the scheduled syncs, monitoring, backups and security patches. If it stops, we restart it. This never counts against your hours.
Anything we built that breaks gets fixed
No charge, no hours counted. A defect in our work is our problem. There is no cap, because a cap would mean we benefit from building badly.
Eight hours a month of changes and upgrades
A new field, a changed rule, a report that needs different columns, a workflow that needs an extra step. Hours do not roll over.
We act as your fractional CTO
We are your trusted advisor when you decide how technology, AI included, can help your business. We take the vendor calls. We review contracts and quotes, flag renewals, and check new tools before you buy them. You stop making software decisions alone.
A monthly review with you
Sixty minutes. What was built, what broke, what hours were used, what is coming next.
What you can count on
No build yet? You can still have us as your fractional CTO.
How Fractional CTO worksEvery recommendation in writing:
the options, the cost, the risk, our pick and why.
A reply within one business day.
A renewal calendar for your software.
Every renewal flagged 90 days before its notice deadline.
A written summary within two business days
of every monthly review.
Everything stays in your name:
documents, accounts, access and the decision log.
What counts as a new build
Any one of these means a separate scope and a separate price. We apply the test before work starts, not after.
It needs more than the eight monthly hours.
It is a new capability, not a change to something that exists.
It touches a system we have not already connected.
It needs a new vendor, a new contract or a new recurring cost.
It changes which system holds the official record.
It needs more than one person trained to use it.
A simple test: if it would be its own build for a new client, it is its own build for you too. Anything bigger than the eight monthly hours is a custom build, quoted per project.
If someone inside your company owns technology
We work with them, not around them.
Maybe you named someone to lead technology or AI. Maybe they were handed the job. Either way, we are on their side. We advise them, answer their questions and help them make the right calls. They keep the credit and set the direction.
If they want to build the skill themselves, add coaching: five hands-on hours a month, working with them.
How coaching worksWhen the month is full
When changes go past eight hours, they wait for next month or we quote them as a custom build. We never absorb them quietly.
Every month you get one written line: hours used, hours left, what is waiting.
What the monthly never includes
New capabilities, moving to a new system, or replacing a system. Those are custom builds, quoted per project.
Work on systems we did not build or connect.
Marketing, content, design, SEO and advertising. For any client, ever.
Task work. The monthly is not a pair of hands for this week's list.
Work outside business hours, unless we agree an incident plan in advance.
Term
Three months minimum. Then month to month, with thirty days' notice either way.
Next step
It starts with a build.
We never sell the monthly without one. Start with one fix from our entry build menu, or a custom build quoted per project. Entry builds start at $1,500.