NovaCTO connects to your GitHub and cloud, watches every commit, deploy, and dollar — and briefs you every Monday in plain English. Technical judgment on your side of the table, without the $250k hire.
Your AWS bill jumped $2,840. A test cluster from three weeks ago was never shut down. It's doing nothing. ask your team: "Can we kill the staging-v2 cluster today?"
Shipping speed dropped 38% this month. Most of it traces to one large refactor that's been open for 16 days. ask your team: "What's blocking the checkout refactor?"
Only one person has touched your billing code in 6 months. If Priya leaves, that knowledge leaves with her.
Security: clear. The vulnerable dependency flagged last week was patched Thursday. Verified in production.
Founders get commit logs, dashboards, and "it's almost done." NovaCTO reads the raw signal for you and hands back the only thing that matters: what's true, and what to do about it.
A 6,000-line change to your cart shipped with zero tests. That's your revenue path. It should not have been merged without review.
Your payments code was patched, reverted, and re-patched this week — a sign the team is firefighting, not fixing. Worth a direct conversation.
And a cloud misconfiguration is quietly costing you about $2,800/month. Here's the one-line fix to send them.
Link GitHub and your cloud account with read-only access. No code changes, no SDK, nothing for your team to install.
≈ 4 minutesNovaCTO reads every commit, pull request, deploy, and cloud charge — continuously, in the background.
runs 24/7Every Monday: a plain-English brief with your tech health score, what changed, what's risky, and the exact questions to ask.
5-minute readCritical issues don't wait for Monday. Security holes, runaway spend, and broken deploys trigger instant alerts with a suggested response.
real-timeYou can't tell if the invoice matches the work. NovaCTO gives you independent, evidence-based visibility into exactly what your agency ships.
Agency oversight →Your engineers are good people — and you still shouldn't be the only executive who can't read their department. Get the CTO-level view.
How it works →Standardized engineering-health monitoring across the portfolio, benchmarked by stage. Stop learning about tech debt at the down round.
Portfolio monitoring →The specific, checkable signals of an agency coasting on your retainer, from commit-log patterns to the "one more sprint" loop.
9 min read →Full-time hire, fractional, technical co-founder, or software: what each option costs, when each one is right, and the questions to ask first.
8 min read →We're onboarding a limited set of founding customers. Connect your repo, and within a week you'll know more about your own product than you have all year.