For university incubators, accelerators, student founders, startups and professional practices across North America, starting with Canada, and in India and South Asia.
Senior judgement, for the share of time you need it.
Fractional means a senior specialist gives your startup a defined part of their time. You inherit access to the roles your stage requires. You do not pay eight full executive salaries.
Choose a role to read what it does, in plain language.
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One accountable capability team
CLO
Fractional Chief Legal Officer
The person who helps you set up the company correctly, protect ownership and IP, understand contracts and avoid preventable legal mistakes.
Why a startup needs this role
Ownership disagreements and missing paperwork are cheap to fix on day one and very expensive to fix in front of an investor.
Questions this role answers
Who owns the company, code and brand?
What should founders agree now?
Is this customer or vendor contract safe?
What happens if a deal fails?
Typical work products
Founder-agreement roadmap
IP inventory
Contract templates and reviews
Risk register
When it becomes relevant
From the idea stage, before the company is registered
Connected module
JurisYantra
Every role, in full
What each role does and when you need it.
CLO
Fractional Chief Legal Officer
The person who helps you set up the company correctly, protect ownership and IP, understand contracts and avoid preventable legal mistakes.
Why a startup needs this role
Ownership disagreements and missing paperwork are cheap to fix on day one and very expensive to fix in front of an investor.
Questions this role answers
Who owns the company, code and brand?
What should founders agree now?
Is this customer or vendor contract safe?
What happens if a deal fails?
Typical work products
Founder-agreement roadmap
IP inventory
Contract templates and reviews
Risk register
When it becomes relevant
From the idea stage, before the company is registered
Connected module
JurisYantra
CTO
Fractional Chief Technology Officer
The person who helps you choose what to build, how to build it and which technology will remain secure, affordable and scalable.
Why a startup needs this role
Early technology choices quietly decide your costs, your speed and how hard it is to pass a customer’s security review later.
Questions this role answers
What should the first product include?
Build or buy?
Which cloud should we use?
How much compute or GPU capacity do we need?
Will the architecture scale?
Typical work products
Product roadmap
Architecture review
Cloud decision
Vendor comparison
When it becomes relevant
When you start planning an MVP
Connected module
METPL.Cloud and InfraVeritas
CCO
Fractional Chief Compliance Officer
The person who keeps track of the filings, deadlines, records and controls that a registered startup cannot afford to ignore.
Why a startup needs this role
Missed filings create penalties and, worse, gaps an investor or auditor will notice during review.
Questions this role answers
Which MCA, GST, Income Tax or other obligations apply?
What evidence is missing?
Are we ready for an audit or investor review?
Typical work products
Compliance calendar
Evidence index
Audit-readiness gap list
When it becomes relevant
As soon as the company is registered
Connected module
TransactionVeritas
CSO
Fractional Chief Strategy Officer
The person who turns a big idea into clear choices about customers, pricing, priorities, partnerships and growth milestones.
Why a startup needs this role
Small teams fail by trying to do everything. Strategy is the discipline of deciding what to leave out.
Questions this role answers
Who is our first customer, exactly?
What should we charge?
Which three priorities matter this quarter?
Which partnerships are worth the effort?
Typical work products
Ideal customer profile
Positioning and pricing note
Milestone plan
When it becomes relevant
After you have an idea worth testing
Connected module
Ready1Go and CapabilityNext
CPO
Fractional Chief Privacy Officer
The person who makes sure customer, employee and user data is collected and used responsibly.
Why a startup needs this role
If your product touches personal data, privacy is part of the product. Fixing it after a complaint is far harder than designing it in.
Questions this role answers
What personal data do we collect, and why?
Have users been told clearly and asked properly?
How long do we keep data?
What do we do if there is a breach?
Typical work products
Data map
Privacy notice review
Retention schedule
Incident-response outline
When it becomes relevant
Before you collect real user data
Connected module
TransactionVeritas
CAIGO
Fractional Chief AI Governance Officer
The person who helps the startup use AI safely—with accountability, human oversight, risk checks and evidence.
Why a startup needs this role
Customers and regulators increasingly ask how your AI is controlled. A short, honest AI register answers most of it.
Questions this role answers
Which AI models and AI vendors do we rely on?
Who reviews AI outputs before they reach users?
What are the risks, and how do we test for them?
What would ISO/IEC 42001 readiness require of us?
Typical work products
AI register
AI policy
AI-risk assessment
Testing and monitoring plan
When it becomes relevant
When AI enters your product or your workflow
Connected module
METPL.Cloud
CGO
Fractional Chief Governance Officer
The person who gives founders and the board a clear system for decisions, responsibilities, policies and oversight.
Why a startup needs this role
Clear decision rights stop founder disagreements from becoming company-threatening disputes.
Questions this role answers
Who can decide what?
How often should the board or advisers meet?
Which policies do we actually need?
How do we record decisions?
Typical work products
Decision-rights matrix
Board calendar
Policy set
Minutes templates
When it becomes relevant
When there is more than one founder, or the first investor or adviser joins
Connected module
TransactionVeritas
GRC
Fractional GRC Officer
The person who tracks risks, controls, obligations, vendors, evidence and unresolved issues so important problems do not disappear.
Why a startup needs this role
GRC stands for governance, risk and compliance. Without someone tracking open issues, they are forgotten until they become incidents.
Questions this role answers
What are our top risks right now?
Which vendors have access to our data?
Which issues are still open, and who owns them?
Typical work products
Risk register
Vendor register
Issue and remediation tracker
Control evidence pack
When it becomes relevant
When you have customers, vendors or grant conditions to report against
Connected module
TransactionVeritas
GTM
Fractional Revenue and GTM Office
The team that helps identify the right customers, run campaigns, manage leads, prepare proposals and turn interest into a repeatable sales pipeline.
Why a startup needs this role
GTM means go-to-market: the plan for reaching and winning customers. It is not the same as posting on social media.
Questions this role answers
Who should we sell to first?
Which channel actually produces leads?
How do we track a lead from first hello to paid invoice?
What should a proposal contain?
Typical work products
Campaign plan
CRM and pipeline set-up
Proposal templates
Revenue dashboard
When it becomes relevant
From the first customer conversations onward
Connected module
Ready1Go
EBA
Executive and Board Adviser
A senior thinking partner who helps founders prepare for difficult decisions, investor conversations, board meetings and moments of change.
Why a startup needs this role
Founders make their biggest decisions—hiring, raising, pivoting, selling—with the least experience. A steady adviser helps.
Questions this role answers
Should we raise now, or wait?
How do we prepare for this board meeting?
How do we handle a co-founder disagreement?
Typical work products
Decision memos
Investor-conversation preparation
Board-pack review
When it becomes relevant
Before a major decision, raise or change of direction
Connected module
CapabilityNext
Roles describe capability, not a licence to practise. Legal, tax, audit, valuation, IP-agent, certification and other regulated work is undertaken or coordinated only through appropriately authorised professionals where required, and may be separately scoped.
Your idea should not wait for the perfect team.
Start with the right capability system. TheEntOS Assessment takes about 15 minutes and gives you a ranked plan.