A CTO mentor who has already done your job.
Operator-mentors for engineering and product leaders across Central Europe. Someone who ran your exact scale, not a coach reading it off a slide.
You only pay for a session you rate 7 out of 10 or higher. If it does not land, you owe nothing.
The real cost of waiting
Your senior leader is stuck on a call they cannot make inside their own org.
Nobody above them has run this exact scale. Nobody beside them will say the hard thing. So the roadmap slips a quarter, a key hire starts updating their CV, and one night at 11pm your best VP Eng quietly decides they are done.
That is the real cost of waiting. Not the price of a session.
Do-nothing is the competitor. It wins by default, quietly, while everyone waits for the problem to solve itself.
What this is
Not a coach. Not a course. Not a 12-week arc.
A mentor for engineering leaders who has sat in your exact seat: scaled the team you are scaling, shipped under the constraint you are under, made the call you are stuck on. In Central Europe, under Central-European reality, not recycled US leadership content.
Most "engineering leadership" advice is US thinking that ignores how a CEE scale-up actually runs. You get an operator who has done the job here.
Whether you would call it an engineering manager coach or a mentor, the thing you actually need is the same: someone who has already run the job you are in right now.
How it works
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Name the gap.
90-second diagnostic, or a 20-minute problem call. No pitch. We find the one thing that is actually stuck.
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Match the operator.
You get a mentor who has run your exact scale and constraint, not the next available name in a directory.
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Pay only when it lands.
After each session you rate it. Below 7 out of 10, you owe nothing for that session. The bar sits with you, not us.
mentoring sessions delivered
engineering and product leaders
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Behind it, a 2,000-strong Central-European engineering-leaders community. 120+ leaders in the room at every monthly meetup. 500+ at the annual Engineering Leaders Conference, speakers from Netflix and Stripe, covered by Czech Television.
Built through the real thing, not the theory of it: an engineering org scaled from 8 to 80 teams through a Series C, leadership at a company acquired by IBM, three years as a Principal Architect in the Bay Area.
The price wedge
A fractional CTO in Europe runs €1,000 to €2,000 a day. A CTO coaching retainer runs $2,500 to $10,000 a month, whether or not any single session lands.
Here you pay per session, from €292 to €430, and only for the ones you rate 7 out of 10 or higher.
You are not buying twelve weeks of someone's calendar. You are buying the 45 minutes that gets your leader unstuck.
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For you if
you run engineering or product at a scale-up, you are one level past your last real rep, and the person who could tell you what to do has not done this job at your scale.
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Not for you if
the gap is early-career skill you have genuinely never built. Then a mentor is premature, and the diagnostic will tell you so and point you elsewhere. That honesty costs us a booking. It is the whole point.
Questions
Mentor or coach, and is it worth it?
How do I know if my VP Eng needs a mentor or a coach? +
A coach helps them find their own answer. A mentor has already lived the answer and hands it over. If your leader is stuck on a call where the missing piece is judgment they have not earned yet, they need someone who has made that exact call, an operator-mentor, not a coach. The 90-second diagnostic names which one your situation actually needs.
Where do I find a mentor who has actually been a CTO at my scale, not a generic coach? +
That is the whole model here. Every mentor is an operator who ran the seat you are in. You are matched on scale and constraint, not on who is available.
Who mentors engineering leaders and CTOs in Europe? +
Operator-mentors who have done the job in Central Europe, built on a 2,000-strong CEE engineering-leaders community and 3,400+ sessions delivered to 300+ leaders across 17+ countries.
Is it worth paying for CTO mentoring, and what does it cost? +
Sessions run €292 to €430, and you only pay for the ones you rate 7 out of 10 or higher. Compared with a €1,000 to €2,000 a day fractional or a $2,500 to $10,000 a month coaching retainer, you carry no commitment beyond the single session that helped.
What is the best mentorship for scale-up engineering leaders in Central Europe? +
The one that matches you with an operator who has run your exact scale under CEE constraints, and only charges for sessions that land. That is what this is.
Find the one thing that is actually stuck.
90 seconds, no email needed to see the result.