Metabay Studio

Get a senior team without hiring one

A founder-led team that carries technical ownership with you. A lead, senior engineers, or both, part time or full time.

Hiring your own
Starting with ours

Six months to reach your first hire. Or a team from week one.

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Ownership, not advice

Consultants leave you a deck. We make the calls, live with them, and hand the seat over when you hire.

01

In the room where it is decided

Architecture, hiring, vendors and the board conversation. The calls that are expensive to get wrong are the ones we are there for.

02

Your team, not a parallel one

We work inside the engineers you already have, so the knowledge stays when we go rather than leaving with us.

03

Designed to shrink

Usually two days a week, less as your own senior hire ramps up. A engagement that grows forever has failed at its job.

What we take on

Four ways this shows up, and what we do differently with each.

Fractional CTO

Technical ownership for a founder who does not need a full time CTO yet.

We will tell you when you do, and help you hire them.

Senior engineers alongside your team

Experienced people embedded in your own stack and your own Slack.

Nobody is handed to a junior after the sales call.

Architecture and technical due diligence

The review before you raise, buy, or commit to a rebuild.

You get what to fix and what to leave alone, which is the harder half.

Getting a stalled build shipped

Taking a product that is nearly there and putting it in the stores.

Usually the release path is the blocker, not the code.

2 days
A week, typical engagement
8+ yrs
Founder-led delivery

A team we carried the technical side for

One engagement, and what it shipped.

Project 1 of 2: Wholio

Wholio
HIRE

Wholio

A security audit of a SaaS built entirely with AI, days before it started taking payments.

KEY POINTS

Read only
we never touch your live code
16 pages
written so you can fix it yourself
4
areas checked: security, reliability, scale and search

NEXT STEP

Tell us what you need carried

We reply within a working day.

45+
In-house projects
30+
AI agents live in production
8+ yrs
Founder-led expertise
5 stars on Google
step 1 of 5

What do you need?

A rough answer is fine.

What our clients say

Real reviews from clients we have worked with. Left on Google, or filmed by them, and unedited.

5 stars on Google
Sam TrickettFounder, Kinda
I found the whole process very efficient, informative and simple. Most days i chatted with the team which was really helpful to feel aligned. Very direct and efficient and give good ideas snd feedback.
Simon LallozGoogle review
I've worked with this team on several personal projects, and the main reason I keep coming back is simple: they deliver. Everything is built in-house, which makes collaboration straightforward and execution fast. What I appreciated most is that projects weren't handed over as rough concepts, but as market-ready products I could actually use and build on. The four-week delivery timeline sounds ambitious, but in my experience it held up. Communication was clear, decisions were practical, and there was no unnecessary back-and-forth. If you want people who can turn ideas into real digital ventures without overcomplicating things, this team does exactly that.
LUNAGoogle review
I've been working with them from past 1 year and it's really good to have mentor like Maxime - owner of metabay
Sam TrickettFounder, Kinda
I found the whole process very efficient, informative and simple. Most days i chatted with the team which was really helpful to feel aligned. Very direct and efficient and give good ideas snd feedback.
Simon LallozGoogle review
I've worked with this team on several personal projects, and the main reason I keep coming back is simple: they deliver. Everything is built in-house, which makes collaboration straightforward and execution fast. What I appreciated most is that projects weren't handed over as rough concepts, but as market-ready products I could actually use and build on. The four-week delivery timeline sounds ambitious, but in my experience it held up. Communication was clear, decisions were practical, and there was no unnecessary back-and-forth. If you want people who can turn ideas into real digital ventures without overcomplicating things, this team does exactly that.
LUNAGoogle review
I've been working with them from past 1 year and it's really good to have mentor like Maxime - owner of metabay

Frequently asked questions

What does a fractional CTO engagement look like?

Real ownership, part time or full time: architecture, hiring, vendors, board conversations. Usually two days a week, shrinking as your own senior hire ramps up.

How is CTO as a service different from hiring a consultant?

A consultant recommends and leaves. We make the call, ship against it, and are still there when it turns out to be wrong.

Can you work with the engineers we already have?

That is the point. We work inside your team and your tools, so the knowledge stays with your people rather than leaving with us.

What happens when we hire our own CTO?

We help you hire them, hand over, and step back. Every engagement is built to end.

Do you do technical due diligence for investors?

Yes, on both sides of the table: before you raise, and before you buy.