XcellConsult| vCTO as a Service

An agency's tech lead reviews their own team's work and is paid through development hours. Our vCTO works for you, is independent of whoever writes the code, and keeps your code, cloud accounts and roadmap in your hands. We often work alongside agencies and help them perform better.

Seed to Series B startups without a CTO or with a first-time CTO who wants a senior sparring partner; SMEs and family businesses building a digital product or platform; and boards or investors who need an independent view of a company's technology.

Starter includes 16 hours a month, Growth 40 and Scale 80, plus interim CTO cover on Scale. Hours go to leadership meetings, sprint reviews, architecture and code reviews, hiring, vendor calls and reporting. You see a monthly log. Extra hours are billed at ₹4,999 an hour (indicative).

Some — architecture spikes, proofs of concept, reviewing pull requests and pairing on hard problems. But the job is to make your team faster and safer, not to replace it. If you need delivery capacity, we help you hire or choose a partner.

Yes, and we plan for it. When the team and the product justify a full-time CTO, we write the role, run the technical interviews with you and hand over the blueprint, roadmap, dashboards and risk register so the new CTO starts with context.

Three to four weeks reviewing architecture, code quality, security posture, scalability, cloud costs, team and process, IP ownership and open-source licences. You get a findings report with severity, a remediation plan and a data-room pack. It can be run for your own fundraise or on a company you plan to invest in or acquire.

Yes. We set standards, review their work, run the release process and make sure code and credentials sit in your accounts. If a vendor isn't working out, we help you transition without losing knowledge.

The one that fits your cost, compliance and team skills. We work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Indian clouds, including XcellHost's own, and we show the numbers behind the recommendation. For a move, our Migration Services team can execute it.

Security is part of every architecture decision: data maps, consent and retention for the DPDP Act, CERT-In-ready logging, MFA, secrets management and review gates. When customers ask for SOC 2 or ISO 27001, our Managed GRC and ISO 27001 teams take it to certification.

On the Scale package your vCTO acts as the company's CTO while you hire or between CTOs: attending leadership and board meetings, owning incident escalation, signing off major releases and representing technology to investors and customers.

Retainers are billed monthly in rupees with GST, on a 3, 6 or 12-month term (3-month minimum). Sprints are fixed-price and billed on start. We sign an NDA before the assessment, and all work product and IP belong to you. All prices on this page are indicative placeholders, excluding 18% GST.