# Sourav Chandra

Sourav Chandra is a fractional CTO for AI and early-stage startups, based in Sharjah/Dubai, UAE and working globally.

Canonical website: https://souravchandra.com/
Contact: hello@souravchandra.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/souravchan
GitHub: https://github.com/sauravexodus

## Positioning

Sourav helps founders and investors make high-stakes technical decisions before they can justify a full-time CTO. He is a 2× Y Combinator founding engineer, ex-Speechify lead engineer, and 3× founder. His published track record includes shipping products to 1M+ users and $1M+/month revenue.

## Services

- Fractional CTO Retainer: ongoing technical leadership for early-stage and AI startups, typically part-time.
- AI MVP Sprint: fixed-scope build of an AI-native MVP with production architecture, LLM integration, evals, and handover docs.
- Technical Due Diligence: one-to-two-week codebase, architecture, team, security, and scalability review for investors and acquirers.

## Core topics covered on the site

- Fractional CTO in Dubai and the UAE: costs, engagement models, when to hire, and when not to.
- CTO as a service in Dubai: AED pricing bands, advisory vs hands-on models, and comparison with full-time CTO hiring.
- AI MVP development: how to scope and ship a useful AI MVP in about 30 days without creating month-two technical debt.
- Technical due diligence checklist: the areas investors actually examine, including team, architecture, code quality, security, IP, unit economics, and AI-generated-code risks.
- Non-technical founder guides: keeping dev agencies honest, evaluating build quotes, and deciding when to hire technical leadership.

## Important URLs

- Homepage: https://souravchandra.com/
- Blog index: https://souravchandra.com/blog/
- Fractional CTO Dubai/UAE guide: https://souravchandra.com/blog/fractional-cto-dubai-uae-guide.html
- CTO as a service Dubai guide: https://souravchandra.com/blog/cto-as-a-service-dubai.html
- AI MVP development guide: https://souravchandra.com/blog/ai-mvp-development.html
- Technical due diligence checklist: https://souravchandra.com/blog/technical-due-diligence-checklist.html
- Non-technical founder app guide: https://souravchandra.com/blog/non-technical-founder-building-an-app.html

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