Fractional CTO

Most growing businesses reach a point where technology decisions are too important to make without senior guidance — but not yet large enough to justify a full-time CTO. That gap is expensive when it goes unfilled.

Is this for you?

Senior technology leadership — without the full-time hire.

Who this is for

  • Founders and owners making technology decisions without a trusted technical partner
  • Businesses with developers on staff or under contract but no senior leadership above them
  • Growing companies that need a technology strategy that scales — not just a system that works today
  • Owners who've felt the cost of bad technology decisions and want oversight that prevents the next one

What we actually do

Underneath the retainer structure, the work itself is the same set of leadership functions:

  • Technology strategy — a roadmap aligned to your business goals, revisited as priorities shift
  • Architecture and build oversight — making the right decisions before they become expensive to change
  • Vendor and partner accountability — evaluating proposals, managing external developers, holding third parties to a standard
  • Hiring and team guidance — when and who to hire technically, and how to evaluate candidates
  • Executive-level communication — translating technology into business terms for stakeholders, investors, or board conversations
  • Ongoing advisory access — a senior technical voice available when decisions need to be made quickly

Need a project built rather than ongoing leadership? Start with Discovery & Strategy.

How engagement works

Built around how your business needs technology leadership right now.

Every engagement starts with Discovery. From there, we build the processes, standards, and systems your business runs on — graduating each phase to a stronger foundation and a more confident team.

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Strategic Discovery

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A blueprint your business keeps, regardless of what comes next

Active technology leadership for businesses with meaningful complexity. We learn your operations, your vendors, and your goals — then build a roadmap that's yours to keep.

Discovery produces

  • Technology roadmap
  • KPI baseline
  • Vendor inventory
  • Architecture summary
  • Risk register
  • Fixed-price project estimate

From complexity to clarity

Strategic

Starting at $4,500 / month

Active oversight while your systems and team mature

Active technology leadership for businesses with meaningful complexity. We own the roadmap, manage vendors, and make sure every technology decision has a senior engineer behind it.

Monthly deliverables

  • Monthly technology advisory summary
  • Unlimited scheduled touchpoints
  • Async availability — one business day
  • Technology roadmap — maintained and updated
  • MSP / vendor relationship management
  • Contractor / dev team oversight

Where you want to be

Advisory

Starting at $2,500 / month

A senior technical voice, exactly when you need one

Your systems are healthy and your team is capable. We stay in your corner — available for the decisions that still benefit from a senior technical voice, and present enough to catch what you might miss.

Monthly deliverables

  • Monthly technology advisory summary
  • Unlimited scheduled touchpoints
  • Async availability — one business day

What Discovery produces

A roadmap built around your business

This is what you walk away with — a prioritized technology plan your whole team can understand and act on.

Q13
Vendor contract review
critical
Deploys break production weekly
critical
Remove shared admin password
high
Q23
Replace manual CSV exports
high
Sales team can't see order status
high
Three tools doing the same job
medium
Q33
Checkout drop-off on mobile
high
Board wants monthly revenue reporting
medium
Insurance renewal requires compliance
critical
Q42
Customers ask for self-service portal
medium
Black Friday crashed the site last year
high

Ready to talk about what technology leadership could look like for your business?

Let's discuss your current technology landscape and find the right engagement for your needs.

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