For fractional CTOs, CFOs, COOs and CMOs
Find fractional clients in the network you already have.
Your next engagement is probably with someone you worked with years ago who has since become the founder or leader who needs exactly what you do. Upload your LinkedIn export, describe your work, and every connection gets read against it.
No account, no card. Nothing connects to your LinkedIn login, and your file is deleted once your report is made. How your data is handled
16 worth contacting out of 416 shown
Most fractional executives find clients through people who already know their work: former colleagues, founders they have advised, investors and past vendors. The practical method is to list everyone in your network who now runs or funds a company at the stage that buys fractional help, rank them by fit, and write to the strongest few personally.
Step by step
How to do it, whether or not you use Rolomine.
Stage, size and the missing seat. A seed-funded startup with no technical co-founder buys a fractional CTO. A company past its first round with no finance lead buys a fractional CFO. The narrower this is, the easier every later step becomes.
LinkedIn gives you the file on request. It holds each connection's name, job title, employer and the date you connected, which is enough to judge fit.
Look for founders, CEOs and investors at companies that match step one. By hand that means reading every row. Rolomine reads them all against your description and ranks the matches.
Say how you know them, what you do now in one sentence, and ask a small question. Ten specific messages do more than a hundred general ones.
Investors and other fractional executives see companies that need you before those companies go looking. A strong match who isn't a buyer is often the best route to one.
Why your network beats marketplaces for fractional work
Marketplaces and directories put you in a list next to hundreds of other executives, where the buyer compares on price. Someone who has worked with you already knows how you behave under pressure, and that is what a company is really buying when it gives a part-time executive a seat at the table.
The catch is that the people who matter have moved on. The engineer you managed in 2016 is now a co-founder. The analyst from your old finance team is a COO. Your network is full of buyers who don't know you do this work now, and you don't know that they are buyers.
A job title alone says little. What shows that a company needs fractional help is a business at the right stage with that seat unfilled, which is why company size and industry matter as much as the title.
Mistakes that waste a warm network
- Announcing instead of asking. A post saying you have gone fractional reaches everyone and prompts almost no one. A direct message to the right ten people does both.
- Pitching the wrong person. A friend at a 5,000-person company is warm but won't buy a fractional CTO. Warmth without fit spends the relationship for nothing.
- Waiting for the gap between engagements. The best time to reconnect is while you are busy, so the next conversation starts before the current contract ends.
What Rolomine does, and what it can't see
Rolomine reads your LinkedIn connections export, identifies each employer's size and industry, and judges every connection against the work you describe. You get the people worth contacting, ranked, with the reason and an opening message written from how you actually know them.
It works from job title, employer and the date you connected. It never logs in to LinkedIn and can't see bios or posts, so your own knowledge of each person still decides who you write to.
What you would type, and what comes back
Four questions, then one of these for every strong match.
Start the scan from this page and Customers is already chosen, so the questions are phrased for what you are looking for.
Fractional CTO for seed and Series A startups without a technical co-founder. I run architecture reviews, hire the first engineers and get outsourced development teams under control.Founders and CEOs of software startups with 5 to 50 staff, and the investors who back them.$5,000 per audit, or a monthly retainerRuns a young fintech with no CTO listed; connected eight years ago when you both worked in payments.
A non-technical founder at 11 to 50 staff is exactly where outsourced development starts to go wrong, and a part-time CTO costs less than a hire. You share a payments background, which gives the first message a real reason to exist.
Example output with invented people. Every claim is derived from job title, employer size and connection date, nothing else.
One real network
1,601 connections, scanned with a fractional CTO brief.
The free scan read 1,500 of them, and 87 people cleared the bar to be worth contacting. Measured, not estimated.
Pricing
Scan free. Pay only if it found something.
The free scan reads your network and shows the counts and your five strongest matches, with one written up in full. If that isn’t worth acting on, stop there.
Full network report
$39 once
- ✓Every strong match, ranked and written up
- ✓A pursue-or-skip verdict for each goal you set
- ✓An opening message for each one
- ✓The full list as a CSV
Questions
What people ask about this.
Where do most fractional executives find clients?
Mostly through people who already know their work: former colleagues, founders, investors and other fractional executives. Marketplaces and directories help, but they put you in a price comparison. Your own network is where the trust already exists.
How do I find fractional CTO or CFO clients on LinkedIn?
Export your connections, then look for founders, CEOs and investors at companies of the size and stage that need your seat filled part time. Rolomine does that reading for every connection and ranks the matches, and you write to the strongest few yourself.
Is my network big enough?
Under about 300 connections there usually isn't enough to find, and the free scan will show you that before you pay anything. Most people with ten years in employment behind them have far more than that.
Does Rolomine contact anyone for me?
No. It never sends messages and never touches your LinkedIn account. It suggests an opening line for each match, and you decide who to write to and what to say.
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