This is an Open Coffee for Fractionals session — part of my coaching practice.Michael Payne joined for the first time and shared what it’s like going from consulting architect to fractional CTO — mostly solo, mostly govtech, mostly East Texas.Adam White came in hot with a new positioning experiment: Technical Waste Management. His pitch? Let your best engineers build — I’ll clean up everything else.Stephen Lauck mapped the CTO spectrum into three types: the fixer, the tech lead, and the customer-facing business mind.We got into:who fixes your AI MVP when it breaks?why positioning around risk (not hours) helps sell retainershow isolation makes nontechnical founders seek fractional partnerswhy companies don’t hire juniors (and how that breaks the pipeline)how trades and tech both cling to the hourly myth — and what to do insteadretainers as risk transfer: you’re not paying for time, you’re paying to not hold the bag when stuff breaksNo slides. No pitches. No agenda. Just honest conversation.📅 Recorded June 30, 2025🎙️ Hosted by David RaistrickJoin a future session | Explore the For Fractionals community

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