Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO. Not a project. A standing decision-maker.

Ongoing technology leadership, without the cost of a full-time hire. The scope and cadence are agreed at the start.

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Three ways to run it

Advisory, Embedded and Programme.

Each tier covers a different level of involvement. You pick the one that fits, and the scope is fixed at the start.

Advisory

A standing line for decisions as they come up

Vendor calls, platform questions, the thing you’d otherwise sit on for a fortnight.

Embedded

Closer to the operation, roadmap owned directly

On site regularly enough that your team stops saving things up for me.

Programme

Near full-time strategic and operational leadership

For a business mid-way through something big enough that it needs one person holding it.

Six-month minimum on all three tiers. Long enough to be useful, short enough that you’re not trapped in it. The scope is agreed at the start and the price is the price at every turnover band.

Scale · DO-ART-204

Advisory to Programme: the scale.

Each tier covers a wider scope and a deeper level of involvement. Same price at every turnover band.

Straight answer

When it fits, and when it doesn’t.

It fits when

You’ve just finished an audit and need someone to own the roadmap that came out of it. You’re mid-way through a platform change and need one person keeping vendors honest. You’re scaling, and the systems that got you here won’t get you further. Or you’ve lost the person who held all of this in their head, and you don’t want that to happen twice.

It doesn’t fit when

You haven’t worked out what’s actually broken yet. Start with a Clarity Audit instead. A fractional CTO relationship works best once there’s a plan to execute, not before one exists. I’d rather tell you that now than take a retainer for six months of finding out.

See how a Clarity Audit works →

I’m not going to tell you what to buy. I’ll show you what’s on the market, what it costs, and where it falls short, so whatever you decide, you decide on the merits.

Craig Blackman · Decoded Ops

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An hour, no obligation, and an honest answer at the end of it, including if the answer is that you don’t need this yet.

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