Stop Solving the Hardest Problems Alone

CTO Swarm is the private peer community for startup and scale-up CTOs. Inside, you'll find playbooks, events, and a trusted circle of leaders facing the same challenges as you.

A distraction-free space for real CTOs only.

Your Private, Vetted Peer Group

CTO Swarm is a private, vetted community on Circle.so where practicing CTOs connect without the noise. No consultants. No salespeople. No recruiters. Just trusted peers who understand the same challenges you face. Inside, you'll find focused channels, live events, and workshops where you can ask hard questions, share wins, and get high-quality feedback fast.

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A Look Inside the Swarm

CTO Swarm is more than a chat group — it's an active ecosystem for professional growth. A mix of on-demand peer support, expert-led programming, and a permanent library of knowledge. Here's how members engage.

Daily Knowledge Exchange

Get immediate, peer-vetted answers to your toughest technical and leadership challenges. Share tools, wins, and lessons learned with other CTOs.

Live Expert-Led Events

Join monthly deep dives, AMAs, and roundtables with seasoned CTOs, VCs, and tech leaders — tackling the challenges you're facing right now.

The Collective Knowledge Base

Tap into a growing library of playbooks, frameworks, and searchable conversations — practical insights from real CTOs, ready to use.

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A look at our upcoming events inside CTO Swarm

Live, Expert-Led Events

Practical sessions where startup CTOs learn, share, and solve challenges together.

Deep-Dive Workshops

In-depth sessions on critical topics like AI adoption, scaling teams, or SOC 2.

Ask-Me-Anythings (AMAs)

Candid advice from seasoned CTOs, founders, and tech leaders.

Peer Roundtables

Small-group problem-solving with peers facing the same issues.

Every event is included in your membership — no upsells, no fluff, just actionable insights.

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Always Free to Join

Access the Swarm Your Way

Your free membership includes access to the community platform, events, and peer discussions. Upgrade anytime to unlock advanced playbooks and in-depth courses.

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Frequently Asked Questions

CTO Swarm is designed for busy leaders. Most members engage 30–60 minutes per week — browsing discussions, attending the monthly events that interest them, and dipping into the knowledge base when needed. There's no minimum requirement; you get out what you put in.

Community membership is free forever, with no credit card required. It covers the discussions, the monthly events, and the peer network. Extended Membership is €25 per month and adds the full playbook and framework library, workshops, senior CTO channels, and priority event access. Extended comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try it risk free.

CTO Swarm is exclusively for practicing CTOs and VP/Head of Engineering at startups and scale-ups. We vet every application to ensure a high-quality, peer-only environment — no consultants, salespeople, or recruiters. If you're actively leading engineering and dealing with the real challenges that come with it, this community is for you.

Community membership is free and never renews or bills. Extended Membership is billed monthly and renews automatically unless you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account settings, and you'll keep full Extended access until the end of your current billing period, then revert to the free Community tier. Within your first 30 days on Extended you can request a full refund, no questions asked. After that we don't refund partial billing periods.

You don't have to face it alone.

Join CTO Swarm today and connect with peers solving the same challenges.

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Always free to join. No credit card required.