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title: "Coyotiv for startups. Your engineering team, until you hire one."
description: "You have funding and a product to build, but no technical team yet. Coyotiv gives you a CTO-level lead and engineers who have shipped together, until you hire your own."
url: https://coyotiv.com/for-startups/
---

For funded founders

# Your engineering team. Until you hire one.

You have funding and a product to build, but no technical organization yet. We become it: a CTO-level lead and the engineers under them, working as your own department.

[Book a free review](https://coyotiv.com/for-startups/#book) [See our work](https://coyotiv.com/work/)

What you get

- A CTO-level lead  
Owns architecture, delivery rhythm and hiring.
- Engineers who have shipped together  
Writing production code from the first week.
- Your first hires  
Hired with you, grown inside the team.

Clients include

Where it starts

## A free architecture review.

Not sure what you need yet? Bring us your product. In 30 minutes, a lead reads your code, talks to your team and tells you what they would do. You get it in writing.

[Book the review](https://coyotiv.com/for-startups/#book) [See our services](https://coyotiv.com/services/)

### Keep

What already works and should stay as it is.

### Fix

What will slow you down or break as you grow.

### Build next

What to build next, and in what order.

How it goes

## From your first lead to your own team.

- Coyotiv lead
- Coyotiv engineers
- Your hires

1. ### A lead arrives  
A CTO-level lead owns architecture, delivery rhythm and hiring. Standards and delivery culture come with them.
2. ### The team ships  
Engineers who have shipped together before join from the first week. While others are still hiring, we write production code.
3. ### Your hires join  
We hire your first engineers with you and grow them inside the team, next to people who have done it before.
4. ### We step out  
A hand-over when your own team is ready. The product, the process and the people are yours. No lock-in, by design.

Questions

## What founders ask us first.

Something missing? Ask us directly, and an engineer replies by email.

[Talk to an engineer](https://coyotiv.com/for-startups/#book)

### How soon can a team start?

The lead starts first, right after the architecture review. Engineers who have shipped together before join from the first week.

### Who owns the code?

You do. Everything we build is yours, and there's no lock-in: when your own team is ready, they take it over.

### Can you work alongside my existing engineers?

Yes. They join the team, and our lead sets the standards and the delivery rhythm for everyone.

### What happens when we want to hire our own team?

We hire them with you and grow them inside the team, next to our engineers. When they're ready, we hand over and step out.

Contact

## Book a call.

Free, 30 minutes, with an engineer. Tell us what you are working on.

- Startups Free architecture review
- Enterprises AI review
- School Apply for the next cohort
[hello@coyotiv.com](mailto:hello@coyotiv.com)