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Fractional tech leadership for startups, agencies, and growing businesses
We bring a combined 37+ years of experience building and scaling products to help you tackle your biggest product and technology challenges so your business can reach the stratosphere 🚀
Who we help
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 augment your founding team with our depth of product and technology knowledge. We can help with everything from product development to team building and management to market validation to sales and business development.
Consider us your missing cofounder.
Scaling Startups
As your startup gains traction your founding leadership team begins to get overwhelmed with a growing set of responsibilities: customer demos, investor meetings, product roadmapping, team management, etc. We provide a trusted partnership for scaling startups to help fill in the gaps that are created as a startup grows.
Scale your existing team with a trusted leadership partner.
Marketing, Design, and Sales Agencies
Expand your team with product and technology expertise. We can help build internal products, or help your clients with their biggest technology initiatives including cloud migrations, custom web / SaaS applications, mobile applications, and more. We work as white-labeled internal resources while managing cost-effective nearshore / offshore developers to maximize your scalability and minimize your bottom-line.
Enhance your team expertise.
Growing Businesses
Ditch the agency! Expand your existing team with product and technology leaders that will keep your best interests as a focus. 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.
Don't let your business fall behind.
What we do
We work closely with our clients to 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 / Chief AI Officer.
Technology strategy
Research, roadmapping, and management of execution are the cornerstones of our process when developing a business' technology strategy.
Product leadership
From UX / UI to software development to customer research and refinement of product-market fit. We help augment and lead the areas 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 businesses 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.
Hands-on engineering
We build products fast. With two senior engineers enabled with AI dev tools, we can build your new product or feature set fast, secure, and ready to scale.
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.
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
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about fractional tech leadership and how Apollo Fractional works.
A fractional CTO provides part-time, senior-level technology leadership — setting tech strategy, managing engineering teams, and guiding product decisions — without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive hire. They embed with your team, attend meetings, and execute strategy just like an in-house leader.
Unlike agencies, Apollo works transparently with your team, doesn't mark up contractors, and scales its engagement with your evolving needs. We don't lock you into long-term contracts or sell resources you don't need. Your success, not billable hours, drives every decision we make.
We work best with early-stage founders who need a technical cofounder, scaling startups whose leadership is stretched thin, marketing or design agencies that want to expand with embedded product and tech expertise, and growing businesses ready to tackle their next big product or technology challenge.
A fractional CTO is embedded as an ongoing leadership partner — attending meetings, managing teams, and driving execution week over week. A consultant typically provides one-time advice or a specific deliverable. Apollo acts as a true leadership extension of your team, not a one-off engagement.
Yes. We help businesses strategize, implement, and scale AI-powered solutions including LLM integrations (AWS Bedrock, Langchain, Firebase GenKit), RAG pipelines, AI agents, MCP servers, and open-source model hosting. We stay current with the latest models and trends so your business is never left behind.
Our engagements are flexible and priced based on the scope and stage of your business. We scale up or down based on your needs — from early-stage founders to established mid-market companies. There are no hidden markups on contractors. We start by understanding your business and determining where we can add the most value.
Not at all. We work with businesses across a wide range of industries — retail, media, entertainment, fashion, healthcare, and more. Whether you need to build an internal tool to streamline your operations, or a customer-facing digital product to grow your business, we bring the same depth of product and technology leadership to help you get there. You don't need to be a tech company to benefit from experienced tech leadership.
Our team brings deep, hands-on expertise across the full product and technology stack: product strategy and roadmapping, user experience (UX) design and research, JavaScript application development (React, Next.js, Node.js), backend systems architecture, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP), and AI strategy and implementation including LLMs, RAG, and agentic systems. We've built 150+ products over our careers and can engage at the leadership level, the execution level, or both.
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 🚀
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