Your technical co-founder — without giving up half your company.

We embed as the missing technical leadership for startups that don’t have a CTO. We own architecture, product strategy, and hands-on delivery so non-technical founders can focus entirely on growing their business — without managing developers or agencies.

WHO WE ARE

CTO as a service — but we also build.

Most fractional CTO arrangements give you strategy without execution. We do both. Architecture decisions, product strategy, team leadership, and hands-on building — from first conversation to product launch and beyond.

Our product

Building a product without a technical co-founder is hard.

Hire an agency?

They'll say yes to everything, bill by the hour, and disappear when the project gets difficult. You'll get a "finished" product that breaks under real users.

Find a technical co-founder?

You'll spend months searching, then give up 20-50% of your company to someone you barely know.

Hire developers directly?

Without technical experience, you can't evaluate their work. You won't know if the code is good until it's too late.

What We Built

Our Featured Work

A look at the products and platforms we’ve designed to solve real business challenges.

FERTIFA

Fertility, menopause and reproductive health care and support for employees and their families.

COMOCLUB

Exclusive member-only recognition program offering unparalleled access to the esteemed world of gastronomy, fashion, lifestyle, travel, and wellness experiences within the renowned COMO Group.

Storm Survival: Guides for Non-Technical Founders

Building a product without a technical background? We’re writing the guides we wish existed: how to evaluate agencies, spot red flags, know if your code is good, and avoid the mistakes that sink startups.

→How to Know If Your Dev Agency Is Screwing You

→Do I Really Need a Technical Co-Founder?

→Why Your Last Agency Failed (And How to Not Repeat It)

Years Longest partnership

Rescued from failed agencies

Came from referrals

WHO WE BENEFIT

Startups, Scale Ups, In-House Innovations

As fellow founders, we understand the struggle. Our product team executes ideas swiftly, specializes in scaling engineering, and we further sharpen our skills through in-house projects.

Studio

Make haste calmly.

What matters is how we work as a team,
not where the individual team members
work from. For now, we’re hiring people
from Serbia, but there is no office that we
would require them to come to, even if we
wanted to. It does comewith its own set of
challenges, but we’re conscious about
addressing them, and in our experience,
the benefits outweigh the risks. By a wide
margin.

At Studio, we believe great work doesn’t have to be rushed. We combine speed with precision, turning ideas into products efficiently. Every step is deliberate, every decision purposeful. Fast, focused, and flawless execution is our promise

Make haste calmly. We move quickly but thoughtfully, balancing creativity with strategy. From concept to product, we ensure every detail is handled with care. The result: high-quality solutions delivered on time.

OUR Faqs

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from hiring an agency?

Agencies take briefs, execute, and move on. We make decisions with you, challenge your assumptions, and stay for years. We act like co-founders because our incentives are aligned through equity and long-term relationships.

How is this different from hiring a CTO?

A full-time CTO costs 150-300k/year salary plus equity. You get one person who may or may not be the right fit. With us, you get a team with diverse experience at a fraction of the cost, and you can scale up or down as needed.

What if we want to hire our own team later?

That’s the goal. We help you hire, document everything, and transition smoothly. Zero lock-in. Several of our clients have “graduated” to in-house teams. We’re proud of that.

What technologies do you work with?

We’re pragmatic, not dogmatic. We typically work with Typescript, React/Next.js, Node, PostgreSQL, AWS, but we choose based on what’s right for your product, not what’s trendy.

Where are you based?

Belgrade, Serbia. Fully remote, working with founders in UK, EU, US, and Singapore. Time zones haven’t been a problem. We overlap with Europe mornings and US East afternoons.

OUR Testimonials

Trusted by founders worldwide.

Not every company founder has a technical co-founder from the start, so some of the best ideas and business plans depend on a strong development partner. As a successfully exited startup founder himself, Vuk, along with his team at Hurricane, is much more than an outsourced dev resource. ‍The team behaves like a company co-founder and brings founder mentality, startup agility and pragmatism needed to develop a first prototype, MVP or even 1.0 version -- at a level of quality that delivers exceptional user experience and satisfies the procurement or diligence process of even the most discerning corporate/regulated clients and investors. I always recommend Hurricane to any of our founders and teams that need best in class dev talent and consistently reliable project delivery.

Working with Hurricane Studio has given us the best of both worlds: Flexibility and the ability to throttle resources up or down in order to manage burn and make the most of our limited runway, but best in class dev resources so we don't have to compromise on the quality of our platform, app, devops and software development.

Not sure if we're the right fit? Let's find out.

We don’t do sales calls. We do honest conversations about what you’re building and whether we can help. Sometimes the answer is “you don’t need us yet” or “here’s what you should do instead.” That’s fine.

Reach out!

Have an idea or a project in mind? Get in touch and let’s start the conversation.

Technical co-founder for non-technical founders. We do the work a CTO does, for startups that need a partner, not an agency.

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