# Nuulab Your AI startup needs a CTO now, not in four months. > Nuulab (Nuulab Systems LLC) provides fractional CTO leadership for AI startups. We help decide what to build, address the risks slowing delivery, and give engineering teams clear technical direction, so a startup's pilot, raise, or enterprise deal doesn't stall on technology. A fractional CTO that doesn't go dark between calls. - Website: https://nuulab.com - Book a 30-minute discovery call: https://cal.com/nuulab/30min - Email: hello@nuulab.com - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/nuulab - X: https://x.com/nuulab ## What we help with - **Strategy & roadmaps:** We assess your systems, weigh build-versus-buy options, and plan the work around your business goals, budget, and team. - **AI & knowledge systems:** We connect the documents, data, and expertise your team relies on, and plan searchable knowledge bases, AI assistants, and automated workflows with clear permissions, source references, and human review. - **Engineering & delivery:** We guide architecture decisions, coordinate your developers and vendors, and lead planning and reviews so your team can deliver the roadmap. Other areas: AI strategy, product architecture, workflow automation, engineering leadership, and AI governance (security, data privacy, AI risk, and provider and tool spend). We can work alongside an existing CTO, lead your current developers, or help you build a team. We agree on responsibilities before the engagement begins. ## Who it's for Founders and CEOs of AI startups, seed to Series A, building products with AI who don't have a senior technology leader. Problems Nuulab is brought in for: - Product and architecture: an MVP built fast that now breaks with every feature; no one can explain how the system fits together or what fails when one piece goes down; a proposed rewrite nobody can judge. - AI and data: AI features that work in demos but fail on real customer data; choosing between fine-tuning, RAG, and off-the-shelf tools; rising model and API costs with no attribution; unclear answers on where customer data goes and whether it trains models. - Team and delivery: slipping sprints and unpredictable releases; agencies or offshore teams whose work can't be judged; hiring engineers without a way to assess them; one developer holding all the system knowledge. - Investors, security, and cost: upcoming technical due diligence; enterprise deals stuck on security questionnaires (SOC 2, SSO, data residency); a cloud bill nobody owns; founders spending their week translating between the board, customers, and engineers; no senior technology leader to review major decisions. ## NuuOS® NuuOS® is Nuulab's CTO AI. It keeps a client's technology work moving between fractional CTO sessions. Human-led, agent-assisted: NuuOS doesn't replace judgment. It removes the dead time between decisions. As a client's team grows, NuuOS can also run day to day on its own plan. ## Engagements - **30-Day Technology Roadmap:** for when you're not sure what to build or fix first. One month: architecture, infrastructure, and engineering review; prioritized risks, gaps, and build-versus-buy recommendations; a sequenced roadmap with budget, staffing, and dependencies; an executive readout for founder and investor discussions. Implementation is scoped separately. - **CTO Engaged:** for when nobody senior owns technology. A CTO who sets your technology strategy and leads your engineering team: strategy, KPIs, and reporting through the NuuOS® Framework; a NuuOS® Systems Map after the first 30 days; quarterly planning, weekly sprint reviews, and daily stand-ups; hiring, training, evaluating, and managing staff, contractors, and vendors. Includes NuuOS®, Nuulab's CTO AI, which keeps the work moving between sessions; as the team grows, NuuOS can also run day to day on its own plan. Starts within 2 weeks. - **Half-Day Strategy Session:** for when one big technology decision is holding everything up. 7–14 days of preparation by email, then a working session with your leadership team that ends with a technology task list, a review of overlooked risks, and technology campaigns for the next 1–6 months. - **CTO Advisor:** for when your team is already delivering a plan. Quarterly planning, twice-monthly sprint calls, unlimited email, and access to standard operating procedures for technology campaigns. The next step after CTO Engaged or a Half-Day Strategy Session. Pricing scoped on a discovery call. - **NuuOS Only:** for clients who've completed CTO Engaged or CTO Advisor. Already scaled your team? Keep NuuOS®, Nuulab's CTO AI, running your technology operations day to day. Human-led, agent-assisted: it keeps work moving between decisions, and you can step back up to a CTO engagement at any time. The roadmap is a standalone assessment and handoff. The existing team can deliver it, or CTO Engaged can be scoped to lead delivery. A team with an existing plan can start with ongoing leadership. A specific AI feature, agent, or integration can be scoped separately with acceptance criteria and a team handoff. Every engagement is scoped to the company's stage and team. Starting prices are listed above; every engagement is scoped on a discovery call: https://cal.com/nuulab/30min ## The first 30 days (30-Day Technology Roadmap) 1. **Week 1, understand the business:** business goals and success criteria, current product and systems inventory, team and stakeholder interviews. 2. **Week 2, find the gaps:** architecture and infrastructure assessment, technical risks and dependencies, build-versus-buy recommendations. 3. **Week 3, plan the work:** prioritized delivery roadmap, budget and staffing estimates, milestones and ownership. 4. **Week 4, review your roadmap:** executive roadmap readout, decisions and recommended next steps, assessment handoff. ## Free playbooks (Nuulab Press, PDF) - [The Oversight Economy](https://nuulab.com/playbooks/the-oversight-economy.pdf): where people should stay in control of AI. 14 PDF pages including the back cover. - [The Agentic Playbook](https://nuulab.com/playbooks/the-agentic-playbook.pdf): choosing and planning an agent workflow. 33 PDF pages including the back cover. - [The Enterprise AI Playbook](https://nuulab.com/playbooks/the-enterprise-ai-playbook.pdf): planning AI adoption, data access, and governance. Revised edition, 36 PDF pages including the back cover. ## Optional - [Homepage](https://nuulab.com/): the full site. It is a single page with sections for who the services are for, expertise, engagements, the first 30 days, and the playbooks. - [Showreel](https://nuulab.com/media/nuulab-showreel.mp4): a 15-second video introduction.