CTO Advisor+

Overview & who it's for

CTO Advisor+ is the recommended tier for leaders who want continuous CTO-level governance, not just occasional counsel. It combines a closer strategic cadence with priority access and structured, recurring review of your architecture, roadmap and engineering delivery.

It suits organisations where technology decisions carry board-level weight: scale-ups between funding rounds, companies preparing for diligence, and executive teams that want a standing technical authority at the table.

This service is available to professional and business customers only.

What's included

Everything in CTO Advisor, with greater depth and access:

• Weekly or biweekly strategic sessions
• Priority async advisory
• Deeper architecture and roadmap review
• Technical risk and technical-debt prioritisation
• Engineering organisation and delivery review
• Quarterly Technology Review within the included capacity
• Executive and board preparation where appropriate

Quarterly Technology Review

Once per quarter, a structured review of your architecture, roadmap, delivery and technical risks, concluded with prioritised written recommendations for the next quarter. The review is delivered within your included monthly capacity, not in addition to it.

Capacity & scheduling

Advisory capacity is a boundary, not the value proposition. It defines the volume of substantive advisory work included each month.

• Up to 8 hours per month of advisory capacity.
• Capacity covers meetings, preparation, substantive async advice, architecture and document review, and the Quarterly Technology Review.
• Short administrative exchanges (scheduling, logistics, quick confirmations) do not consume capacity.
• Substantive async work is accounted in 15-minute increments.
• Priority async requests are normally answered within 1 business day. Advisory capacity is not an on-call or emergency-response service.
• Advice is provided to your designated contacts; the number of designated contacts is not capped.
• Unused capacity does not roll over; work beyond the included capacity requires explicit prior agreement or a separate scope.

What's not included

CTO Advisor+ deepens the advisory relationship; it does not convert it into operational ownership. TRENDev advises, your team decides and executes.

• Operational ownership of systems, teams or delivery
• On-call duty or incident response
• Routine coding or hands-on implementation
• Sprint or project management
• Routine team management
• Unlimited code or document review

Billing & taxes

Price: €2,500 per month, excluding applicable taxes.

• Monthly subscription, billed in advance at the start of each billing period.
• Public prices are stated excluding applicable taxes. The applicable VAT or tax treatment is determined at checkout and on invoices, based on your business's country of establishment and tax status.
• Professional and business customers only: this service is not offered to consumers.

Cancellation

• Cancel anytime, with no long-term commitment.
• Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid billing period; the service remains available until then.
• No refunds and no prorated credits for the current paid period.
• Unused advisory capacity does not roll over to the following month.

Before you subscribe

A free CTO consultation is the required first step before subscribing. It confirms mutual fit, clarifies your context, and makes the first month productive from day one.