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Fractional CTO
Technical leadership when you need it: architecture, choosing suppliers, a look at what you already run, and a plan the team can follow.
- Fee
- $2,500
- Length
- 1–2wks
What the engagement covers
- 01Technology StrategyPlan what to build, in what order, and what it will cost.
- 02Vendor ManagementChoose and manage the right technology partners.
- 03Digital TransformationManage complete digital change from start to finish.
- 04Process AuditReview and improve your business processes.
What you get out of it
- Tech leadership without full-time CTO cost
- Roadmap and vendor choices aligned to ops
- The right tools, less money wasted
- Risk and security in scope
- Visibility AnalyzerfreeFree
- Free AI DiagnosticfreeFree
- Managed Automation$750/mo
- Visibility Upkeep$900/mo
- Visibility Sprint$1,500
- Discovery Sprintyou are here$2,500
- Implementation Sprintfrom $5,000
1–2
weeks of measuring
- it adds up · we build
- it does not · money back
Both exits are real. Only one of them is paid for.
Two ways to close these decisions
Hiring in-house is a working answer and for many companies the right one. The difference is how many decisions like these you have in a year.
Hire in-house
- Find a technical lead: months of searching, at a salary that starts where the development budget ends
- Give them time to load the context — somebody else's code takes weeks to read, not a call
- And keep them busy full-time, because architecture and vendor decisions do not arrive daily
- Plus the risk that they leave and everything decided leaves with them, if none of it was written down
Discovery Sprint
Take us
- The decisions when they arrive, rather than a permanent seat on the org chart
- Everything decided is written down: the team works from the record, not from memory of a conversation
- When you do hire in-house, they arrive to a written plan instead of a blank page
Not for you if
- You need somebody at every standup. This is bought in decisions rather than presence, and daily attendance is not what it is for.
- You need a vacancy filled, not decisions taken. We do not replace the hire and we do not run the team in place of a lead.
- You want a monthly figure before anybody reads the code. We price after that, not before, and the reading is the first thing bought.
Asked before anyone buys this
- How much does a fractional CTO cost?
- It starts at Discovery, $2,500 fixed, which is where the state of what you run gets established. What follows is scoped against that rather than sold as a monthly figure before anyone has looked at the code.
- Fractional CTO or a full-time hire?
- A full-time hire buys availability; this buys decisions. If the technical questions in front of you are architecture, suppliers and a plan the team can follow, they take weeks of attention rather than a permanent seat — and the hire, when you make it, inherits a written plan instead of a blank page.
- What are the risks of hiring a fractional CTO?
- The real ones are limited hours, the cost of loading context, and building a dependency on someone who is not there full time. The answer to all three is the same: everything decided is written down where the team can act on it without the person in the room.
- What does the work actually consist of?
- Architecture decisions and the reasoning behind them, choosing and managing suppliers, reviewing what you already run, and a plan the team can follow after the engagement ends. If none of that is written down at the end, the engagement failed.
Next step
Look at your stack before any plan
Thirty minutes on one process from this track: which steps cost you most, what we would take on first, and whether the arithmetic closes. The sprint that follows is refunded in full if it does not.
Put a time in the calendarThirty minutes, free. The sprint is what the call is about.
- Fee
- $2,500
- Length
- 1-2 weeks
Refunded in full if we conclude you should not build.