What is fractional portfolio services?
Fractional portfolio services provide part-time, on-demand access to a seasoned portfolio or product leader without hiring them full-time.
Instead of paying for a full executive salary, companies buy a slice of that expertise—typically a few hours or days per week.
Clients, especially startups, benefit because they get access to
- Strategic guidance from an experienced leader at a fraction of the cost.
- Immediate help shaping product direction, metrics, and execution.
- Flexibility to scale support up or down as needs change.
It’s a way to access high-level capability early, long before the budget exists for a full executive hire.
Think about this as your pathway to long-term strategic direction, avoiding a lot of the common
missteps that early startups to maturing companies commonly make, by accessing the knowledge and
wisdom of people who has been there and done it, and who wants to share their knowledge and prepare
you to “do it right”, and be ready and prepared the day when you you need it, instead of a costly
afterthought or “panic” exercise to “set things straight”.
What can EmberLabs® offer?
- Fractional CTO experience.
This gives you access to senior technical leadership long before you are ready for a full-time executive hire.
A CTO typically covers areas such as:- Defining long-term technology strategy and aligning it with the business goals.
- Designing scalable architecture and choosing the right tools and platforms.
- Establishing engineering processes, security practices, and technical roadmaps using proven standard practices.
- Guiding hiring, mentoring, and building a strong engineering culture built on ability, respect and and trust.
- Translating technical decisions into clear business impact for founders and investors.
- Being the “tech navigator and facilitator” between practical business needs, regulatory, legal and compliance requirements.
(let’s find a way and make it happen!) - Being a “ballplank” to the business and board to quickly assess ideas and consider technical feasibility at early stages.
- Support contract and investor negotiations, avoiding common pitfalls (we talk out of experience).
- Support by understanding the individual teams and their needs, from DevOps, Dev, networking, customer support, extending
to cross-team disciplines such as legal, compliance, HR, sales, operations as we have direct, first-hand experience in the areas.
What else?
- Fractional HR.
If you need, we can offer you fractional services in HR, providing a on-demand HR solution,
getting you set up with the things you really need to get you started. - Fractional recruitment.
Need an contracted recruiter that works specifically for you?
We can help you with this too, as a fractional service.
Still unsure?
If you have a little time to spare and a limited budget to spend to “get sh*t done”, just wanting to get a headstart that few has?
Let’s talk! What’s there to lose?
The backing story of the Fractional CTO?
You will find it here…