Advisory / Leadership
Fractional CTO
Quarterly objectives, not rented hours. You buy outcomes a CTO would own — architecture, hiring, vendors, board answers — without the senior payroll.
What you get
- Architecture ownership. Someone accountable for the technical direction — reviewed, written down, defensible in front of a board or an investor.
- Hiring. Role design, interview loops, and the judgement calls — so you stop paying senior salaries for junior outcomes.
- Vendor decisions. Contracts, scopes, and delivery held to account by someone who has sat on the vendor’s side of the table for 21 years and knows how the margins are made.
- Board reporting. Technology translated into risk, cost, and time — the three words boards actually read.
The format
A retainer at 2–3 days per week equivalent, minimum three months, objectives set quarterly and reviewed in writing. The cadence is the point: enough presence to own outcomes, not enough to become the org chart’s most expensive line.
What we deliberately don’t sell here
Developer experience programmes and change management as line items. When a fractional CTO engagement runs well, better developer experience and adopted change are its results — you should not be invoiced twice for them.