Fractional CTO
Strategic technology leadership - on demand, or on a fixed monthly retainer. For scale-ups and growth businesses that need a CTO in the room, not on the payroll.
We act as your CTO without the full-time hire: setting the technology roadmap, making architecture decisions, leading and coaching the Engineering Team, and representing technology at the executive and investor level.
We embed deeply enough to understand your business, and stay independent enough to give you unfiltered advice. The same person who diagnoses stays to operate. There is no senior partner sale followed by junior delivery.
Engage us on demand for the decisions that cannot wait, or on an agreed monthly pack of hours when technology leadership needs to be constant.
Companies that need CTO-level judgement before they need a full-time CTO.
Organisations that want an independent technology assessment of their solutions, their Engineering Teams, or both. Growth-stage businesses that have outgrown ad-hoc technical decisions but do not yet have the structure to justify a full-time CTO. Companies preparing to be acquired by a fund, who want the technical health of the business in order before anyone looks under the hood. And organisations carrying legacy solutions or tech stacks that have become hard to update, scale, or keep performant.
A technology function that runs.
A clear technology roadmap aligned to your business objectives. Architecture decisions that are defensible and documented, including a concrete path forward for legacy Products and technical debt. An Engineering Team with direction, actively led and coached, and a hiring bar that holds. A credible technical voice at the executive and investor level. And the independence to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.
The decisions a CTO owns.
Technology strategy and roadmap
We align technical investment with business goals, so the stack supports where the Company is going, not just where it has been.
Architecture and scalability
System design, service boundaries, data model, and the build-versus-buy calls that decide whether the platform scales or stalls.
Security and compliance posture
Threat modelling, readiness for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR, and the access and secrets hygiene that auditors and acquirers look for first.
Delivery and Engineering practice
CI/CD pipelines, DORA and SPACE baselines with quarterly targets, and the operational discipline that turns activity into shipped software.
Team, leadership and hiring
Engineering org design, leveling, technical hiring, and mentoring internal leads into the people the Company needs them to become.
Vendor and risk management
Third-party contracts, tooling cost, and the technical and regulatory risks that sit quietly on the balance sheet until they do not.
Investor and board readiness
Credible answers to technical diligence, the technology narrative for a raise, and representation when the questions get specific.
What lands in your inbox, and your Team.
How a Fractional CTO engagement runs.
On-Demand
For specific decisions, board moments, or diligence windows. Scoped blocks of time, called in when the technology questions are stacking up. You pay for what you use.
Monthly Retainer
An agreed pack of hours each month: predictable cadence, predictable cost. The default when technology leadership needs to be continuous rather than episodic.
Need a CTO in the room next quarter?
Tell us where the technology decisions are stacking up. We will come back with a scoped engagement and a start date, usually within a fortnight.
