Fractional Leadership
A senior technology leader, embedded with your team.
When you don't yet need a full-time CTO or CIO — or your current leader needs a co-pilot — we step in to set direction, raise the engineering bar, and unblock the business. Quietly, and on your timeline.
- Strategy, roadmap, and operating cadence
- Architecture reviews and platform decisions
- Hiring, leveling, and org design
- Board and investor communications
- Vendor and SaaS portfolio rationalization
- Security, compliance, and IT foundations
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When fractional leadership is the right call
You're scaling and the technical decisions are getting expensive. A founder is wearing the CTO hat and needs to step out. A new CEO inherited a team and wants an honest read. A PE-backed business needs IT and security maturity before the next audit. We've sat in each of those chairs.
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What you get
Engagements are tailored, but most include a consistent core.
Operating system
Planning rhythms, OKRs or equivalents, weekly business reviews, and a shared definition of done.
Architecture clarity
A current-state map, a target-state direction, and a sequenced plan to get there without halting delivery.
Talent strategy
Org design, leveling, scorecards, and active participation in interviews for senior roles.
Executive partnership
A trusted peer for the CEO and exec team. Board prep, investor updates, and hard conversations.
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How we engage
Most clients start at one to two days per week, with a clear 90-day plan and named deliverables. We're transparent about what an engagement should and shouldn't be — and when it's time for a full-time leader, we help you hire them and hand off cleanly.
Engagement
A clear, repeatable process
- 01Listen
Two weeks of interviews, code, and metrics. No conclusions yet.
- 02Frame
A written read-out: what's working, what's at risk, what to do.
- 03Lead
We embed and execute against the plan with your team.
- 04Hand off
Documented systems, hired leaders, and a clean exit.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
- How is this different from an advisor?
- Advisors meet monthly and offer opinions. We're operators — we own outcomes, attend standups, write docs, run interviews, and sit on the exec team while we're engaged.
- Can you work alongside an existing CTO?
- Yes. Many of our best engagements are as a thought partner to a first-time or scaling CTO who wants senior pattern recognition without adding a peer to their org chart.
- What does it cost?
- Engagements are scoped monthly based on days per week and duration. We share a written scope and pricing before any work begins.
Ready to move forward with confidence?
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