Tech Buddy — A CTO-grade technical brain, on a monthly retainer

Sound familiar?

The questions that keep founders up at night.

"Is my dev agency doing real work, or just burning my budget?"

"I keep reading about breaches — I have no idea if we're exposed."

"Our cloud bill is out of control and growing every month."

"Investors ask technical questions and I freeze."

"I need a CTO, but a full-time hire is ₹1.5 Cr+ and premature."

"Decisions stall because nobody actually owns them."

If any of these hit home, you don't need more tools. You need senior technical judgment on your side — without hiring a full-time CTO.

The smarter math

A full-time CTO isn't your only option.

Most early companies don't need a ₹1.5 Cr hire. They need CTO-grade decisions — at a fraction of the cost and commitment.

A full-time CTO

₹1.5 Cr+ / year

One person, one point of view
3–6 months to find and close
Equity, benefits & payroll on top
Hard to right-size as you change

Tech Buddy

from ₹12L / year

A senior team's judgment on tap
Start in days · scale up or down
No equity, no payroll, no politics
Up to 10% of your tech bill, on us

Most early companies don't need a full-time CTO.
They need CTO-grade decisions — without the CTO-grade cost.

Every plan includes

The basics, on every tier.

✓A senior decision-maker firmly on your side

✓A monthly tech-health scorecard you can act on

✓Vendor & cost honesty — no kickbacks, no padding

✓Straight answers with zero internal politics

10%up to · on us

We cover up to 10% of your monthly bill for the cloud & tech services we recommend or implement — because we only suggest what we'd pay for ourselves.^*

*Up to 10% of the monthly bill, applied to eligible cloud and third-party tech services we recommend or implement. Exact cap and eligible services confirmed at onboarding.

Plans & pricing

Pick your level. Move up as you scale.

Every plan is cumulative — each tier is everything below it, plus more. You're never locked in.

Advisor

₹1L/mo

Partners · ₹50K/mo

Your senior technical sounding board, on call.

✓IT roadmap & on-demand consulting
✓Second opinion before you commit + build-vs-buy
✓Baseline risk + security-hygiene check
✓Tech-expense review & cloud-cost flags
✓Monthly tech-health scorecard

Start with Advisor

Embedded

₹3L/mo

Partners · ₹2.5L/mo

Hands-on management of cloud, security & vendors.

Everything in Advisor, plus —

✓Full cloud management + cost optimization
✓Vulnerability assessment + fixes, DPDP readiness
✓Vendor & contract audit, SaaS-sprawl cleanup
✓Department-level automation & paperless
✓Dev-team / agency audit + hiring support

Choose Embedded

Most chosen

Fractional CTO

₹5L/mo

Partners · ₹4.5L/mo

A CTO who owns the roadmap and faces your board.

Everything in Embedded, plus —

✓Owns the roadmap & takes decisions independently
✓Investor & board technical representation
✓Full IT audit + technical due-diligence prep
✓Custom-dev oversight, data & observability
✓AI strategy + MCP / agentic-AI integration

Choose Fractional CTO

Enterprise

Custom

Partner rate negotiated

Due diligence, GCC setup & regulated-sector transformation.

Everything in Fractional CTO, plus —

✓Full technical due diligence (buy or sell side)
✓GCC / offshore team setup in India
✓Sector compliance — RBI, ISO 27001, SOC 2
✓Multi-entity / multi-cloud architecture
✓Dedicated SME bench + incident-response playbook

Talk to us

At a glance

What each plan covers.

Higher tiers carry everything to their left — they just go deeper and take more off your plate.

← Swipe the table sideways to see every plan →

Capability	Advisor₹1L/mo	Embedded₹3L/mo	Fractional CTO₹5L/mo	EnterpriseCustom
IT roadmap, strategy & decision reviews	✓	✓	✓	✓
Risk, security hygiene & vulnerability testing	Light scan	✓	✓	✓
Cloud management & cost optimization	Cost flags	✓	✓	✓
Compliance (DPDP, IT) & IT audit	–	✓	✓	✓
Vendor, cost & license governance	✓	✓	✓	✓
Automation & paperless processes	Advisory	Dept-level	Cross-function	Org-wide + AI
AI for founders & industry automation	Advisory	✓	✓	✓
Custom dev, product & database expertise	–	✓	✓	✓
Dev-team / agency audit & hiring support	–	✓	✓	✓
Owns roadmap + board & investor representation	–	–	✓	✓
Technical due diligence (fundraise / M&A)	–	–	Prep	✓
GCC setup & sector compliance (RBI / ISO / SOC 2)	–	–	–	✓

✓ Included Word Scope at that tier – Not in this plan

Partner pricing

For doctors & chartered accountants.

You run a practice with real tech needs of your own — patient and client data under the DPDP Act, paperless operations, and software that can't go down at month-end.

₹50,000 off · every plan

You save. Your clients win. We grow together.

Take ₹50,000/month off any plan. In return, you introduce us to 2+ founders a year from your network. A simple partnership: you get a technical partner at a better rate, your clients get one they can trust, and referrals keep it that way.

₹50K off

On every monthly plan, for as long as the partnership is active.

2 intros / yr

Warm introductions to founders who'd benefit — that's the only ask.

Built for you

DPDP & data security, paperless practice, reliable e-filing & portals.

How to start

Three steps. No pressure.

1

Book the call

A 30-minute conversation about where your tech actually stands.

2

Get a snapshot

An honest read on your top risks and quick wins — free.

3

Pick a plan

Choose a tier and start, or take the snapshot and walk away.

Most founders don't have a tech problem.
They have a "deciding alone" problem.

Stop guessing on tech. Start deciding.

Book a 30-minute tech-health call — no pitch, just a straight read on where you stand.

Email tech@nxtbyte.io WhatsApp us

A CTO-grade technical brain. Without the ₹1.5 Cr full-time bill.