Get the CTO-level guidance you need to ship faster and make AI actually work without the full-time hire
Free 30-minute consultation • Quick assessment of your needs
Ten years as CTO at Albacross, a B2B SaaS company I co-founded. Production AI in the core product, a proprietary data set we built ourselves, enterprise customers under GDPR, 3B+ events a month. I led the technical side of an acquisition we made along the way.
"Jakub aligns technology with business and thinks several steps ahead. He championed innovation by leading AI adoption, connecting teams, and communicating clearly. Technical depth plus relentless execution."
Product Owner · Scaleup · LinkedIn Recommendation
Now I do the same work for a small number of founders at a time. Embed with the team, hire the seniors you need, set the architecture, ship the AI features that move revenue. Operator, not advisor.
Selected References
"Jakub transformed our development process with AI tools and team optimization. We now ship features 2x faster while team satisfaction improved by 70% and production incidents decreased by 40%."
CEO · SaaS
Client Feedback
"Jakub is one of the best professionals I've ever worked with. He combines strategic vision with a pragmatic mindset, guides teams with empathy, and creates an environment where people thrive and where quality, collaboration, and continuous improvement are the norm."
Konrad · Team Lead, B2B SaaS
LinkedIn Recommendation
"Jakub consistently solved the hardest problems with calm and rigor. Broad knowledge, strong engineering skills, and real care for people, an exceptional technical leader."
CTO · AI Startup
LinkedIn Recommendation
Embed with your team to fix delivery bottlenecks and build the right processes.
Turn AI tools and features from hype into measurable ROI.
CTO-level guidance without the full-time commitment.
Advisory
For founders who need a technical sounding board but can handle most execution internally.
Best for: Early Series A, strong VP Eng already in place
Fractional CTO
For teams that need embedded technical leadership to ship faster and scale without chaos.
Best for: Series A-B scaling teams, no CTO or junior VP Eng
Fractional CTO+
For complex situations requiring deeper engagement - technical turnarounds, major platform decisions, or leadership gaps.
Best for: Complex AI projects, technical turnarounds, fundraising prep, CTO transition periods
Depends on the tier. Advisory is light: 2 monthly calls and async Slack on hard decisions. From Fractional CTO upward I embed: regular Slack presence, weekly architecture or eng leadership meetings, a standing 1-on-1 with you. First 30 days I shadow and diagnose.
We usually start with 4-6 weeks. Enough to ship one real outcome, a senior hire, an architecture decision, a working AI feature, and decide whether to keep going. Most engagements then run 3-6 months. Some longer when there is a leadership rebuild.
Don't hire AI specialists yet. Start with the team you have. We pick 1-2 AI tools or features that fit current workflows and ship them. The team learns by doing, not in workshops. Hiring an AI specialist comes later, after you know which role you actually need.
Hiring a full-time CTO takes 3-6 months and €200K+ a year. With me you have a CTO starting next week, scaled to what you actually need now. When the role grows past fractional, I help you hire the full-time replacement and hand off.
No. Month-to-month, cancel anytime. Start in one tier, move up or down as the work changes. The job is to make myself less necessary, not lock you in.
I work with your VP, not over them. Your VP owns the team and execution. I cover the parts they are seeing for the first time: AI in production, scaling architecture, board-level technical conversations. Think senior peer they can call when stuck, plus a translator between engineering and the rest of the business.