Consulting
Technical leadership and strategic decisions, without hiring for them full-time.
What this is
Some problems aren't solved by building. They're solved by deciding — which platform, which architecture, which vendor, which thing to stop doing. This division sells judgement, and it's the only one where the deliverable might be a two-page document that saves you a year.
CTO-as-a-Service is the most-used offering here: a senior technical voice in your leadership conversations, on a retainer, without the salary, equity and hiring risk of a full-time appointment.
Services
5 services in this division.
Digital transformation
Moving a business off manual, disconnected processes onto systems that talk to each other.
You receive
- Current-state map
- Target-state design
- Phased plan
- Business case
Technology consulting
Choosing stack, platform and architecture against real constraints — budget, team, timeline.
You receive
- Recommendation
- Trade-off analysis
- Cost projection
CTO-as-a-Service
Ongoing technical leadership — architecture decisions, hiring, vendor management, roadmap.
You receive
- Monthly leadership time
- Architecture ownership
- Hiring support
- Roadmap
IT strategy
Aligning technology spend and decisions with what the business is trying to achieve.
You receive
- IT roadmap
- Spend review
- Priority framework
Architecture review
Reviewing existing software and infrastructure for scalability, performance and maintainability.
You receive
- Findings report
- Risk register
- Remediation roadmap
Who this is for
Funded startups without a CTO
You need technical leadership before you can afford to hire it.
Established businesses modernising
The systems work but the business has outgrown them.
Boards facing a big decision
You need a view that isn't from the vendor selling it.
How it runs
- A
Understand — the business goal first, the technology second.
- B
Assess — what exists, what it costs, what it can't do.
- C
Recommend — options with trade-offs and a clear preference stated.
- D
Support — through the decision and, if you want, the execution.
What you get
Everything needed to own it.
- A written recommendation you can act on or take to your board
- Trade-offs stated explicitly, including the case against our advice
- Access to a senior technical voice between formal sessions
- No incentive to recommend a build we'd profit from — if buying is right, we say buy