Providing fractional leadership services for startups, agencies, and growing businesses
We partner to help you tackle your biggest product and technology challenges so your business can reach the stratosphere 🚀
Who we help
Scaling Startups
As your startup gains traction your founding leadership team begins to get overwhelmed with a growing set of responsibilitis: customer demos, investor meetings, product roadmapping, and team management just to name a few. We provide trusted leadership resources to post-Seed to Series A startups and help to remove much of the day-to-day team management, product interviews and roadmapping, or platform development responsibilities so that founders can focus on meetings and big picture planning.
Scale your existing team with a trusted leadership partner.
Marketing, Design, and Sales Agencies
Expand your team with product and technology expertise. Build internal products, or continue to service your clients with their biggest technology initiatives including cloud migrations, custom web / SaaS applications, mobile application, complex CMS websites, and more. We can work as white-labeled internal resources while managing cost-effective overseas developers to maximize your scalability and minimize your bottom-line
Enhance your team expertise.
Growing Businesses
Businesses have it tough these days, especially when they are non-technical. If your company is looking to take on a big cloud or technology initiative, but don't feel like you have the expertise you need in-house then we are an ideal partner for you. Expand your existing team with product and technology leaders that can work with you as trusted partners. We take the time to understand your goals and constraints, then build and implement a plan to help you navigate your most audacious product and technology challenges. Maybe you need to revamp your website, migrate cloud hosting providers, build new internal solutions, or just want to figure out how to leverage AI to your benefit. We can help.
Don't let your business fall behind.
Early Stage Founders
Not every startup can find the perfect set of cofounders. Forcing a fit, sacrificing cohesion, or rushing to find an additional founder is never a good idea. We can help augment your founding team with our depth of product and technology knowledge, so you can start building until you find a perfect founding partner. We can help with everything from product development to team building and management to market validation to sales and business development. We bring our years of experience building and scaling products to help you make better decisions early on.
Consider us your missing cofounder.
What we do
We work closely with founders and growing businesses to help lead their most audacious business, product, and technology initiatives. We can be hands-on, work with internal teams, or can build and lead a team of external resources.
Fractional leadership
We fill in the leadership gaps on your existing team: Chief Technology Officer / VP of Engineering, Chief Product Officer / Head of Product, and Chief AI Officer.
Technology strategy
Research, roadmapping, and management of execution are the cornerstones of our process when developing a business' technology strategy.
Product development
From UX / UI to software development to customer research and refinement of product-market fit. We help augment and lead the ares of your product development that need it most.
AI strategy and implementation
Looking to leverage the latest LLM or ML technologies? We have helped a multitude of business to harness the growing power of AI for their products, employees, and customers.
Cloud ops
Building a solid cloud infrastructure requires a careful balance of cost, scale, and security. Whether you are a new founder or a scaling organization, we can help you build or maintain solid cloud architecture.
Business development
We support founders with business development strategies including customer research, product-market alignment, and network growth.
Meet the dynamic duo
Rudzinski & Budzinski: Brothers From Another Mother
Seriously, not a typo. Rich and Todd first worked together early in their careers at Digitaria, a mid-sized creative agency based in San Diego. Later, they reunited when Todd started contracting for Tragic Media in 2012.
After 11 years working collaboratively to build and scale products for startups, mid-market, and enterprise businesses, Rich and Todd are ready to partner with you to help your business avoid a technology tragedy.
Rich Rudzinski
CPO | CTO | CSO 
Skills
- Business development
- Product strategy
- UI engineering
- Technology strategy
- Company leadership
Todd Budzinski
CTO | AI Officer | VP ENG
Skills
- Engineering leadership
- Technology strategy
- AI strategy
- System audits
- Cloud ops
- Backend development
Testimonials
Looking for help, but not sure if we are the right fit? Don't just take our word for it.
A person I can trust
There are a lot of great things about working with Rich: his broad knowledge base, flexible scheduling, and quick turn around. What I find most valuable is that he's also a good communicator and a person I can trust. Rich has helped a lot of small tech companies, has the battle scars of experience, an eye for opportunity, and a bias for data driven decision making that is helpful for everyone he works with. I have worked with him month after month and keep coming back as a client.
Philip Meier | Founder | 10Zebra
Let's Connect
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about Apollo Fractional. We would love to learn more about what you are building 🚀
Connect with us on LinkedIn and let's schedule a time to chat!