A senior CTO, part-time.
Strategic technical leadership for startups and growing businesses: architecture, team building, AI and investor reporting, without the cost of a full-time CTO.
Senior technical leadership, on demand.
Strategy and roadmaps
Turn business goals into a realistic technical roadmap, prioritised and sized.
Architecture reviews
An independent review of your stack, with a written report and clear recommendations.
Team leadership and hiring
Support your developers, shape job specs, sit in on interviews and act as interim tech lead.
Vendor and supplier management
Review agencies, contractors and SaaS proposals so you don't sign up to something that won't deliver.
Technical due diligence
Before investment or acquisition: code, security, infrastructure and team, assessed honestly.
Board and investor reporting
Technical progress and risk explained in language your board understands.
AI implementation
Find where AI genuinely helps your business, prove it, and measure the return.
Senior judgement, without the salary.
A full-time CTO costs £100,000 to £180,000 plus pension, benefits and equity. Most growing businesses don't need one every day, just in the room when important decisions are made.
- Scale up or down as your needs change.
- Deal directly with a senior engineer, not an account manager.
- A fixed monthly retainer, with no hourly billing.
- Technical decisions tied to business outcomes.
From first call to first report.
Free discovery call
30 minutes, no pitch. If there's no fit, we'll say so.
Written proposal
Scope and retainer in plain English within 48 hours.
First 30 days
An architecture and process review, plus a prioritised roadmap.
Ongoing
In your Slack, board meetings and interviews, scaled to need.
Need a fractional CTO?
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Near you, and further afield.
Based in Lincolnshire and working across the UK. More about fractional CTO in the places we work most: