Fractional CTO for Grant-Funded Ventures
Grant-funded startups and university spinouts often have funding and a clear technical vision, but no one senior enough yet to turn that vision into an engineering plan. We fill that gap as a fractional CTO.
Fractional CTO
We take on architecture, delivery discipline, and the technical judgment a funded venture needs before its first engineering hire, at 5–10 hours a week instead of a full-time seat. In practice that means system design decisions made before they're expensive to unmake, technical scope and timelines your board and your grant reporting can rely on, and a second, senior set of eyes on every build-versus-buy call.
SBIR/STTR: writing and delivery
Most SBIR proposal help stops at the proposal. Boro's founder, Daniel Joyce, has also delivered on SBIR contracts (Terasense, MODEX), the rarer half of the SBIR world. That experience shapes both ends of our SBIR work: proposals written with an eye toward what a program officer will ask in review, and technical delivery once the award lands and Phase I milestones become deliverables due.
If you're drafting a Phase I or Phase II proposal, or you've already won an award and want a delivery-tested second opinion on the technical plan, we can help with either end, or both.
Credentials
Daniel has spent 25+ years shipping production systems, including rocket-engine telemetry at Blue Origin and two issued RFID inventory patents.