Common CTO Problems We Solve
Expert solutions for 134 technology leadership challenges
Critical Issues (50)
Can't Hire Senior Developers
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No Technical Leadership
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Technical Debt Out of Control
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Codebase Unmaintainable
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Need to Scale Fast
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Database Can't Handle Load
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Downtime During Peak Traffic
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Can't Handle User Growth
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Security Compliance Required
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Need SOC 2 Certification
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GDPR Compliance Urgent
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Data Breach Risk High
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No Security Audit Done
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HIPAA Compliance Needed
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Penetration Test Failed
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Authentication System Weak
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Data Encryption Missing
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API Security Holes
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No Incident Response Plan
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Access Controls Inadequate
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Security Patches Behind
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No Security Monitoring
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PCI DSS Compliance Required
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Architecture Decisions Paralyzed
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No Technical Architecture
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CTO Just Quit
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Major Outage Happening Now
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Investor Demo Tomorrow
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Launch Deadline Next Week
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Entire Team Threatening to Quit
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Product Completely Broken
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Security Breach Just Discovered
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Due Diligence in 2 Weeks
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Customers Threatening to Leave
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Compliance Audit Failed
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Production Database Corrupted
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AWS Bill Skyrocketed
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Technical Founder Left
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Competitor Launching First
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Need Technical Co-Founder Now
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I can't find a good CTO and my business is suffering
Our database is crushing performance and users are abandoning checkout
We just discovered critical security vulnerabilities and don't know what to do
Our infrastructure can't scale and we're losing customers during peak usage
I keep losing my best developers and can't figure out why
Our engineering culture is toxic and it's destroying the team
My MVP has been in planning for 6 months and we still haven't started building
Investors are asking technical questions I can't answer and it's killing our fundraise
My technical co-founder and I are in constant conflict and it's tearing the company apart
Our monolith can't scale anymore and every deploy risks breaking everything
High Priority (53)
Developers Keep Leaving
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Can't Afford Senior Salaries
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Team Lacking Technical Direction
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Developers Burnt Out
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Can't Hire DevOps Engineers
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Team Missing Critical Skills
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Team Productivity Declining
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Can't Scale Engineering Team
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No Testing Strategy
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Legacy Code Blocking Features
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Monolith Too Big to Change
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Dependencies Severely Outdated
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Code Quality Declining Fast
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Technical Debt Slowing Development
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Inherited Messy Codebase
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Application Performance Degrading
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Infrastructure Costs Exploding
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Load Balancing Issues
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Database Sharding Required
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Auto-Scaling Not Working
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Queue System Overwhelmed
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Features Taking Too Long
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Product Roadmap Unclear
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Tech and Product Misaligned
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Can't Ship Fast Enough
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Too Many Bugs in Production
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QA Process Broken
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Technical Decisions Block Features
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MVP Taking Forever
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Choose Wrong Tech Stack
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Microservices vs Monolith Decision
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Cloud Platform Selection
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Database Technology Choice
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Data Migration Strategy Required
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