A full-time CTO costs £150k+ and you might not need one yet. We embed as your part-time technical leader — owning architecture, vendor selection, hiring, security, and roadmap — at a fraction of the cost.
If your business is a software product but no-one on your leadership team is technical, every important decision happens in a fog. Vendor pitches sound equally credible. Estimates have nothing to anchor against. The roadmap drifts toward whatever the loudest engineer suggests.
What to build vs buy. What stack. What infrastructure. What database. The decisions that are cheap to make right and expensive to undo.
Translating business goals into a sequenced engineering plan. Saying "no" to the things that don't matter so the team can ship the things that do.
Writing job specs, screening technical candidates, running pair-programming interviews, negotiating offers. Building the team that will eventually replace us.
If you're already engaged with another agency or freelancer, we can review their work objectively, hold them accountable, and translate between their world and yours.
GDPR, SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 prep, security audits, penetration testing oversight. Not glamorous; protects the business from existential blow-ups.
Translating engineering reality into board-deck language. Defending technical decisions to non-technical investors. Tech-due-diligence prep ahead of fundraising or sale.
A senior technical leader in the UK earns £130–180k base, plus equity, plus benefits, plus the cost of a botched search if they don't work out. A fractional engagement scales to your stage — typically 1–3 days per week for £6–18k/month — and ends cleanly when you're ready for a full-time hire.
Tell us about your business and where you currently lack technical confidence. We'll propose an engagement shape — or tell you honestly if you don't need one yet.
Tell us about your business bottleneck. If we can solve it, you'll know within 24 hours. If we can't, we'll tell you who can.