Matthias Isler · Fractional CTOLet’s talk
Matthias Isler · Fractional CTO
Let’s talk about your business.

Get software development back under control.

I assess what’s going wrong with your developers or agency, decide what needs to change and own the turnaround.

Let’s talk about your business.

I’m Matthias Isler, fractional CTO, founder and engineer. I help founders understand what their development spend produces and take responsibility for improving it.

Engineering has become a black box

Shipping is slow, unpredictable or constantly blocked. Features arrive, but quality degrades. You spend more time chasing progress than running the business.

The cause might be unstable priorities, fragile architecture, missing skills, late testing or a supplier that cannot deliver. Replacing the team is an expensive answer to the wrong diagnosis.

Decision02

Find the constraint. Carry the correction through.

Symptoms

Slipping releases, defects and opaque spending

Constraint

Priorities, architecture, skills, quality or supplier

Owned correction

Plan, technical changes and accountable delivery

Evidence

Working releases, spending, risk and next decision

Find the cause before changing the team.

I examine the software and delivery process with management and developers, then take responsibility for correcting the cause.

Existing teams and partners continue where they can deliver. If another arrangement is needed, I recommend it and manage the transition.

Proof03

Client work · SaaS turnaround

Recover capacity by addressing the causes

At a SaaS startup, defects, rework and customer losses called for stronger engineering capability. I replaced junior and mid-level roles with exceptional senior engineers and took technical responsibility off the CEO, leading changes across product, engineering, QA and DevOps.

Read the SaaS turnaround.

−42%

Average monthly engineering staff costs

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Technology-related churn

Constraint

Defects, rework and technology-related customer loss

Decision

Rebuild around exceptional senior engineers

Execution

Product, engineering, QA and DevOps under Matthias’s leadership

Employee-engineer salaries averaged over 3 months before and after. Churn reasons were collected from every departing customer.

Engagement04

Focused recovery or continued leadership

You can commission Engineering Turnaround or Vendor Management independently. A fractional CTO mandate provides continuing ownership. Capable existing leadership may instead need additional engineering capacity.

CTO mandates start at

CHF 3'500per month

We agree the scope individually. Focused assignments are quoted separately.

Working together. Fees. Partner choice.

Questions05

Do we have to replace the agency?

A supplier that works transparently and delivers against a credible plan may be worth keeping. If capability, incentives or access make the arrangement unworkable, we need a controlled alternative.

Next step06

Start with what keeps slipping

Tell me what was promised, what arrived and which commitment is now at risk.

The first conversation is free and takes 30 minutes. You leave with my view on whether I can help and how.