Are You CTO-Ready?
Take our free 10-minute CTO Readiness Assessment. Get your score across 5 leadership dimensions — instantly, no signup required.
Built by a practitioner, not a professor
Designed by technical leaders who have walked the path from engineer to CTO. Every question, framework, and recommendation comes from real experience scaling teams and shipping products — not theory from a textbook.
The CTO Gap
The role changed. The preparation did not.
You were promoted for technical skills, but the job is 80% people and strategy.
There is no playbook. Every CTO before you figured it out alone.
Your CEO expects a 12-month technical strategy. But you are firefighting daily.
Imposter syndrome is real. 68% of first-time CTOs report it.
Your Assessment Reveals
Get scored across 5 dimensions that define CTO effectiveness.
Technical Leadership
Architecture decisions, tech debt, scalability
People Leadership
Hiring, 1:1s, difficult conversations, team culture
Business Acumen
Strategy, budgets, roadmap prioritization
Communication
Board presentations, stakeholder management, writing
Self-Management
Time allocation, stress, delegation, imposter syndrome
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