Pricing & How It Works
Transparent engagement models with no long-term contracts. The core offer: fewer people, faster shipping. Most clients start with the Team & AI Audit, which pays for itself or is free.
Working with Oleg starts with a $5,000 fixed-price Team & AI Audit. Most clients then bring him on as a fractional CTO at $5,000–10,000/month to restructure the team around AI, typically replacing 10 developers with 1–2 AI-augmented engineers shipping 3× faster. Advisory-only starts at $3,000/month. All engagements are month-to-month.
Three Ways to Start
Every engagement is month-to-month. Scale up, scale down, or stop at the end of any month.
Team & AI Audit
fixed price · 5 business days
A five-day map of your team and workflows: what AI takes over, who you actually need, and what it saves you.
- Team & workflow map: where the time actually goes
- AI takeover plan: Claude Code, Codex, agents
- Restructuring roadmap with payroll savings quantified
- Written report + walkthrough call
At least $50,000/year in identified savings — payroll, cloud, and LLM bills — or the audit is free.
Fractional CTO — Team Transformation
per month · $5–10k depending on involvement
I restructure your engineering around AI, typically taking 10 developers down to 1–2 that ship 3× faster, and stay on as your CTO.
- Team restructuring: fewer people, 3× the velocity
- AI dev workflows: Claude Code, Codex, multi-agent setups
- My platform included: GitLab, in-memory CI, Sentry, Grafana
- The "how to work" framework + ongoing technical leadership
Advisory
per month · a few hours a week
Senior technical judgment on tap: architecture, hiring, AI adoption, and cost decisions, without a full-time executive.
- Weekly strategy calls
- Architecture and code review
- Hiring support: sourcing, interviews, offers
- Async access between calls (Telegram / email)
No long-term contracts. Cancel or change tiers at the end of any month; you keep all deliverables and infrastructure. I support a limited number of companies at a time: 3 client slots open for 2026.
Your First Month
Week 1
Audit & context
Access, architecture review, team and cost baseline. You get an honest read on where you actually stand.
Weeks 2–3
Plan & quick wins
A prioritized roadmap, plus the first savings and fixes shipped, so value lands before the month is out.
Week 4
Operating rhythm
Cadence set: calls, async access, decision framework. We scale involvement up or down as your needs change.
Engagement FAQ
How much does a fractional CTO cost?
With Oleg: a fixed-price Team & AI Audit at $5,000, ongoing fractional CTO leadership (including the AI team transformation) at $5,000–10,000/month depending on involvement, or advisory-only from $3,000/month. Compare that to $200,000+/year plus equity for a full-time CTO, on top of a full team's payroll.
What if we want to stop?
Everything is month-to-month. Say the word and the engagement ends at the end of the month, and you keep all deliverables, documentation, and infrastructure. No lock-in is the point.
Are you going to fire my whole team?
No. The audit shows what the right size actually is. Typically your strongest 1–2 engineers stay and become far more productive with AI tooling; the roadmap includes a fair, orderly transition plan for the rest. As the FluxoPay founder put it: team costs went down "without creating chaos".
What timezone do you work in?
US Pacific (SF Bay Area), async-first. Telegram and email get answers within hours; calls schedule comfortably across US and European timezones.
Not Sure Which Fits?
Book a free 30-minute call: no pitch, no pressure. We'll figure out the right starting point together.