FRACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
CTO, CPO, and PM-level leadership. Without the full-time hire.
You need senior tech leadership but can't justify, or can't find, a full-time CTO or CPO. Our operators embed with your team and bring the experience of scaling companies from 10 to 500+ engineers.
THE PROBLEM
Senior judgement matters more in the AI era, not less.
AI lets junior engineers ship at senior velocity, and ship the wrong architecture at the same speed. As systems grow faster than any individual can hold in their head, cognitive debt accumulates: the board feels out of control, decisions get made without context, and burnout follows. Hiring a full-time CTO costs 250-400K and takes months. Your team needs that judgement now, embedded in the decisions being made today.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
Leadership embedded, not outsourced
Tech Strategy
Define the technical vision aligned with business goals. Architecture decisions grounded in commercial reality.
Team Leadership
Lead engineering and product teams directly. Weekly standups, 1:1s with team leads, performance management.
Board Reporting
Represent Product & Tech in board meetings. Translate engineering progress into metrics leadership understands.
Hiring & Org Design
Define roles, run hiring processes, and design team structures that scale with the business.
Vendor & Architecture Decisions
Evaluate build vs buy, vendor selection, and architecture choices with experience from 200+ assessments.
Transition Planning
Build towards a permanent hire or internal successor. Document everything. Leave the company stronger than we found it.
RELATED INSIGHTS
Further reading
Strategy
Closing the Gap Between Commercial Ambition and Product & Tech Reality
Why the distance between what the business wants and what product can deliver keeps growing, and how to close it.
Strategy
Managing roadmap complexity with limited capacity
Mix top-down strategy with bottom-up feedback to optimise ROI within team capacity.
Get senior leadership without the full-time commitment.
Operators who have scaled from 10 to 500+ engineers.