Fractional CTO & AI Advisory

The problem

You have technology decisions to make and nobody senior to make them with. Vendors are pitching AI. An agency wants a retainer. Your team can build, but the roadmap gets rewritten every quarter, and each choice feels like a bet. Hiring a full-time CTO takes months and costs more than the decisions you need to make this quarter.

What we build

A senior technology leader from our team, embedded part-time in yours. Someone who sits in your leadership meetings, owns the technical side of the plan, and is accountable for it. That starts with an honest AI strategy: which problems are worth automating this year, which are not, and in what order.

We do the unglamorous parts too. Build versus buy, with real numbers. Vendor selection, without the demo theatre. Architecture review before you commit to something expensive. Support for hiring, from writing the role to judging technical work.

What’s included

• A standing weekly cadence with your leadership team
• An AI and automation roadmap tied to business outcomes, not to tool names
• Build versus buy analysis and vendor evaluation
• Architecture and security review of what you run today and what you plan next
• Hiring support: role definition, technical screening, and onboarding a permanent lead
• A written plan your board can read, updated as reality changes

Technologies

Vendor neutral by design. We advise across the major cloud, CRM, and AI platforms, and we say so when the honest answer is to buy something off the shelf, or to do nothing yet.

FAQ

How much time does this take? Typically one to two days a month, concentrated around planning cycles and the decisions that matter.

Do you also build what you recommend? Sometimes, and only if you want us to. The advice stands on its own, and we will tell you when another team is the better fit.

What happens when we hire a permanent CTO? We help you find them, brief them, and step back. A clean exit is part of the engagement.