Fractional CIO/CTO Advisory
Senior leadership in the seat: we find hidden costs and risks, then build a roadmap tied to business priorities.
Is Your Technology Strategy Holding Back Your Business?
Fractional CTO and CIO Advisory When a Full-Time Hire Isn't Right Yet
Ad-hoc technology decisions get expensive as you grow: vendor contracts signed without leverage, projects started without a roadmap, spend without an owner. Senior technology leadership, without a full-time hire, to diagnose what's working and build a roadmap you can run.
When a Fractional CTO or CIO Makes Sense
- "Our CTO left, and there's no budget to replace them yet."
- "We need strategic IT direction but can't justify a full-time CTO."
- "There's a deal on the table, and nobody can vet the technology."
Often the gap isn't a person. It's missing ownership: decisions without a roadmap and spend without an owner. A fractional CIO or CTO holds the seat long enough to set direction, then helps you decide whether to hire.
Leaving the seat empty isn't free. Decisions default to whoever is loudest or to the vendor, deals get vetted without a technical view, and the backlog sets the business's priorities.
What a Fractional Leader Takes On
Security & Risk Advisory
A fractional CISO for companies without security leadership: a clear view of risk, a named owner for each decision and a practical plan to close the gaps.
Technology Due Diligence
Before an acquisition, migration or restructuring: whether your technology can support the plan, what it will really take, and the costs a deal model usually misses, such as integration work, security gaps in the acquired systems and losing the people who know them.
How Engagements Work
Every engagement is built around what you need and what you can spend. Advisory work can run on a set number of days or hours each month. When it's time to build, we can do the implementation ourselves. We'll scope it together on the first call.
Security & Risk Advisory (Fractional CISO)
For companies that don't have security leadership yet. A fractional CISO gives you a clear view of risk, a named owner for each decision and a practical plan to close the gaps. This is advice and governance: we help you decide what matters and who owns it.
Without a security owner, risk decisions don't get made, they get deferred, and customer security reviews land on whoever has time.
- A security risk assessment in plain language: your risks, ranked by business impact
- A decision for each finding (fix, accept or defer), with a named owner
- A practical plan your team can run, with priorities leadership can approve
When it's time to do the work, that's a separate engagement. See Cloud Security & Risk Reduction.
Built around what you need and what you can spend, on a set number of days or hours each month.
How We Work: The Prime Process
- 1
Discover
We start with what's forcing the question: a departure, a deal, an audit or a board that wants a plan.
- 2
Diagnose
We review the actual technology, team and spend, and name the real gaps, including what standing still costs in spend, delayed decisions and key-person risk.
- 3
Design
We build the roadmap with your leadership team, because they will own it after we step back.
- 4
Deliver
We lead or guide the first moves, measure them against the diagnosis and help you hire if a full-time seat fits.
Practitioners Who Have Held the Seat
75+ Years
Combined Hands-On Experience
250+
Successful Projects Delivered
70%
of clients bring us back for their next project
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud partner
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
Our engineers hold current certifications across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Atlassian.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is a fractional CTO different from a consultant?
A fractional CTO owns decisions in the seat instead of handing over a report. Your team gets a senior leader to work with, and you get one person accountable for the roadmap. Which technology decision has your leadership team deferred longest, and what has the wait cost?
Will you help us hire a full-time CTO?
If the diagnosis says you need one, yes. We'll help define the role and hand over cleanly. Sometimes the better answer is a smaller hire plus a clearer operating model.
Do you only advise, or also do the work?
Advisory is advice: direction, decisions and a roadmap. When it's time to build, that's a separate piece of work, and we can do the implementation ourselves.
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