Training for tech freelancers
Short training courses for tech freelancers who want a stronger offer
Designed and led by practicing CTOs. Short, hands-on formats to sell better, deliver more accurately, and carry more weight with your clients.
600+
CTOs in the network
50+
organizations supported
16 years
of hands-on experience
The catalogue
Our training courses
Short formats, from 1 to 3 days, designed to be applied the very next day.
Most requestedTech audit: diagnose, present, and sell an action plan
Duration : 1 to 3 daysAudience : Senior freelancers, tech leads, freelance CTOsFormat : In person or remoteLearn more
- —Scope an audit
- —Analyze stack, technical debt, delivery, organization, security, quality
- —Avoid the cookie-cutter audit
- —Qualify risks
- —Prioritize recommendations
- —Present findings to a CEO, CTO, or PM
- —Turn the audit into an action plan or a longer engagement
Hands-on exercise
Produce a 5-slide audit readout: findings, risks, priorities, 30/60/90-day plan.
Technical debt: making it visible, acceptable, and a priority
Duration : 1 to 2 daysAudience : Senior developers, tech leads, freelance CTOsFormat : In person or remoteLearn more
- —Distinguish acceptable, dangerous, and strategic debt
- —Connect debt to business risk
- —Map technical debt
- —Translate debt into cost, delay, risk, and loss of autonomy
- —Prioritize with the client
- —Fold debt into a roadmap
- —Sell a gradual trajectory rather than a big-bang rewrite
Hands-on exercise
Turn "we need to refactor the backend" into a business decision anyone can understand.
Freelance impact: proving your value beyond the code
Duration : 1 dayAudience : All tech freelancersFormat : In person or remoteLearn more
- —Identify visible and invisible impact
- —Move beyond "tickets closed" reporting
- —Frame gains: time, risk, quality, autonomy, revenue, learning
- —Write a useful weekly summary
- —Document decisions
- —Prepare an end of engagement that opens the door to more work
- —Justify your day rate or a raise
Hands-on exercise
Turn a week of technical work into a client-value-oriented report.
Becoming a freelance CTO / fractional CTO
Duration : 2 to 3 daysFormat : In person or remoteLearn more
- —The freelance CTO's role
- —Working with the CEO/founder
- —Initial audit
- —Tech roadmap
- —Hiring
- —Managing vendors
- —Debt and architecture
- —Governance
- —Recurring offer
NewAI for tech freelancers: produce faster without losing control
Duration : 1 dayFormat : In person or remoteLearn more
- —Speed up scoping, specs, code, tests, and docs
- —Secure AI output
- —Avoid debt generated by AI
- —Use AI to advise better
- —Produce more professional deliverables
- —Increase your perceived value
Method
How it works
A simple briefing, a useful training session, a deliverable you keep.
We scope your needs
A short conversation to understand your context, your level, and your goals.
We adapt the content
The training is tailored to your actual engagement, not a generic program.
Training + hands-on exercise
A dense, concrete format that always ends with a real deliverable.
Reusable deliverable + follow-up
You leave with a tool you can reuse directly on your next engagement.
Trust
Why CO-CTO
Led by practicing CTOs
No trainers disconnected from the field: every course is built and delivered by CTOs who live these topics on their own engagements.
Hands-on, not theoretical
Every course ends with a hands-on exercise: a deliverable you can reuse directly on your next engagement.
Backed by the CO-CTO network
Content is shaped by feedback from the CO-CTO collective, 600+ practicing CTOs.
Head of training
Nicolas
CTO & Entrepreneur
Ex-CTPO for 7 years · 50+ organizations supported · Still active on engagements
Nicolas is a CTO consultant and entrepreneur. He spent 7 years as CTPO at a startup he co-founded, before supporting around fifty organizations (startups, scale-ups, mid-sized companies) on their tech and product challenges, always at the executive committee level. His obsession for the past 16 years: turning tech teams from order-takers into partners whose voice is heard in decisions.
The training courses also draw on the CO-CTO collective, 600+ practicing CTOs.
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