Chief Technology Officer
Fractional CTO
Most companies buying a fractional CTO already have developers. What they lack is someone who can tell them whether the architecture will survive the next order of magnitude, whether the team is right, and whether the roadmap is honest.
It is also the role most often bought defensively — before a technical due diligence, after a security incident, or when an outsourced build has stopped making sense and nobody in-house can say why.
What they deliver
- Architecture and platform review, with a costed remediation plan
- Technical due diligence, on either side of a transaction
- Engineering team structure, hiring and vendor management
- Security posture, data protection and disaster recovery
- Build versus buy decisions and roadmap prioritisation
- Mentoring a lead engineer toward the permanent role
Signals you need one
- Your outsourced development partner is no longer answerable to anyone technical
- A buyer or investor has asked for technical due diligence
- Delivery is slowing and you cannot tell whether it is the team or the codebase
- You are about to make an expensive platform decision
- Security or data protection obligations have overtaken your capability