Technical Leadership & Advisory
Senior technical input without a full-time hire. Architecture, technology strategy, roadmaps and key decisions, through flexible monthly advisory arrangements tailored to your technical needs, with an agreed scope.
Your team owns the roadmap. Advisory joins the decisions you agree to bring to it.
Engagement types
Each is a paid engagement with an agreed scope. Choose the one that fits your stage and the kind of involvement you need.
A standing technical counterpart for your management. Important decisions can be reviewed before they are made, risks raised early, and your team and vendors given a clear technical direction.
Suited to
Companies whose operations depend on software, with an internal team or external vendors doing the building.
Can include
Paid professional guidance, not mentoring: concrete technical input on what to build first, how to build it and what can wait.
Suited to
Founders and early teams making technical decisions that will be expensive to reverse.
Can include
Considered case by case, and offered only where suitably qualified technical leadership is available for your situation.
Part-time responsibility for your technical direction, working alongside your management.
Suited to
Companies that need technical leadership, not only advice, without hiring a full-time CTO.
Can include
Advisory stands on its own. It can also follow an assessment or run alongside an implementation.
Typical topics
An arrangement can combine several of these, depending on the decisions in front of you.
Which technologies should we commit to, and which should we avoid?
What should we build first, and what can wait?
Where would AI genuinely help us, and what would it take?
Will this architecture hold up as usage, data and the team grow?
We need to decide soon. What are the real trade-offs?
Does this team or vendor have what the project needs?
How should the work be sequenced, staffed and reviewed?
What makes the system slow or costly, and what is worth fixing first?
What could fail, and what would it cost us?
Startup Technical Advisory
Paid professional guidance, not mentoring.
Concrete input on the decisions in front of you, from an engineering practice that designs and builds software. Each recommendation comes with its reasoning and trade-offs, so the decision stays yours.
What it can cover
Whether the first version can be built as you imagine it, and what it should leave out.
Languages, frameworks and services that suit the product and the team you can hire.
A structure simple enough for now that does not block what comes next.
Which parts to build, and which to buy, rent or postpone.
A technical review of quotes and proposals from agencies or freelancers, before you sign.
A technical plan that follows your product and business milestones.
Where technical spending matters now, and where it can wait.
How monthly advisory works
Flexible monthly advisory arrangements tailored to your technical needs. The scope and the number of hours are agreed with you in advance, and revisited when your needs change.
Together we define what the advisory covers, the number of hours and how we will work together.
Reviews, working sessions and recommendations on the topics in scope, as your decisions come up.
We check that the arrangement still fits, and adjust the scope or the hours when your needs change.
Clients work directly with ShamaTech's founder, Raja Shama, who leads its engineering work, without layers of account management.
Start a conversation
Describe where you are and the kind of involvement you have in mind. We'll reply with a considered view of whether advisory fits and what a sensible scope would be.