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First AI Movers Hire Names $1M to $5M
Serves EU
$1,750 per month
Fractional CTOs and AI automation coaching for $1M to $5M companies
A founder of a $1M to $5M company can hire a fractional CTO or learn the work and keep it in house. This page lists both: 4 firms offering fractional CTO work and 4 programs on AI automation for founders and CEOs.
Hire: fractional CTO
A fractional CTO owns technical decisions: architecture, build versus buy, the engineering team or dev shop, security basics and the technical side of due diligence.
$2,280per month, median published
- Hours4 to 20 hours a month
- Minimum term3 to 6 months
- Published fees$1,750 to $2,900
- Month oneReview of the code, architecture, hosting and vendor contracts, a security baseline and a written view of what to fix, what to keep and who to hire
- Firms for $1M to $5M4 firms
- Cost guideWhat a CTO costs
Learn: AI automation coaching for founders
You keep the work in house and learn to run it yourself, with a coach, a course or a peer group.
$225per session, from
- FormatLive, in person
- Most common1-on-1 coaching, group coaching
- Programs4 AI automation programs
Hire: fractional CTOs
First on the list are First AI Movers, Leadership Services and Wavect. 3 publish a monthly fee, from $1,750 to $2,900 a month. The other one quotes. Fractional CTO time ranges from 4 to 20 hours a month for advisory work to two days a week for an embedded role. Month one is a review of the code, architecture, hosting and vendor contracts, a security baseline and a written view of what to fix, what to keep and who to hire.
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Leadership Services Hire Names $1M to $5M
70+ peopleServes UK
$2,280 per month, no minimum
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Wavect Hire Names $1M to $5M
3 named clients Founded 2018, 15 people
$2,900 per month, no minimum
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MetaCTO Hire Names $1M to $5M
4 named clients Serves US
Fee on request monthly retainer, no minimum
Learn: coaching for founders
4 programs on AI automation for founders and CEOs.
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Launch by Lean Marketing Editor's pick Learn
Live, rolling start 120 days
$4,500 per month
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AI Coaching for Founders Learn
Live, rolling start 90 min per session, open-ended
$225 per session
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Kamyar Shah CEO Coaching Learn
Live, rolling start Monthly retainer
$12,000 per month
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In person, rolling start 90 min to 2 days
Price not published
How this page is built. The firms offer fractional CTO work and say they serve $1M to $5M companies. The programs cover AI automation and name founders or CEOs as their audience. Each list keeps the published order. Full methodology.