Everything a technical co-founder would own — as a service.
3 ways to plug senior technical leadership into your company: from owning the whole technology function as your Fractional CTO, to a specialist workstream in engineering, data, security, or AI. Every service below is delivered hands-on — I write production code every week, not strategy decks.
Advisory and hands-on. One operator, three deep disciplines.
Pick one or combine. Every engagement starts with a short assessment so we're aligned on the outcomes we're going after before anything else.
Open any service for the deep dive — workstreams, tools, deliverables.
The CTO Seat
You are the one who signs off the spend. This is the seat that shows you the working. Technical direction owned, the team unblocked, fundraising and hiring run as workstreams, and a technical voice that answers to your board rather than to a supplier.
- Weekly 1:1s with engineering leads
- Architecture & roadmap ownership
- Board-level technical reporting
- Fundraising, hiring, and technical due diligence — folded in, not billed separately
The Twelve-Week Build
From a demo to software your customers actually use. Architecture, full-stack build, data and AI, infrastructure and delivery — owned end to end by one accountable engineer, on a fixed shape with a date attached.
- Architecture, build, and ship — one accountable owner
- Full-stack, data, and AI wired into one production platform
- Infrastructure and CI/CD shipped alongside the feature work, not bolted on after
The Certification Ladder
Get certified, not just "ready". Cyber Essentials, then Cyber Essentials Plus, then ISO 27001 with ISO 27701 in one combined audit, and ISO/IEC 42001 when AI is in scope — each rung a certificate in its own right, and each one the groundwork for the next.
- Cyber Essentials & Cyber Essentials Plus, certified
- ISO 27001 + ISO 27701 certified in one combined audit
- ISO/IEC 42001 for AI management systems
- Pentests passed, and the infrastructure built to pass them
A four-step engagement — designed to de-risk every week.
30-minute call. We scope the problem, stage, and fit. No pitch — just an honest read on whether I can help. Getting it checked before you sign is the cheapest thing you will do all quarter.
A fixed fee and a fixed window — five days against the date you booked it for, or up to three weeks depending on the door you came in. It ends in a document, and the document is yours to take anywhere, including to someone else.
The seat, the build, or the certification — whichever the document argued for. Always in your own cloud accounts, your own repos, under your own domain.
Every engagement ends with a named owner on your side and the handover done in writing. If that owner is a hire rather than me, the report says so.
How engagements are structured.
No retainers that quietly renew forever, no ambiguity about who owns what. These are the standard terms in every engagement contract.
Embedded on a fixed monthly retainer, aligned on outcomes — not hours on a timesheet.
Every engagement starts with The Second Opinion — five working days against the date you bring, ending in a written verdict. After that, 30 days' notice either side — no long tie-ins.
I only work with a handful of clients at any given time, so every client gets real attention rather than a slice of a calendar split eight ways.
Standard work-for-hire terms in every contract. No ambiguity, no carve-outs.
Based on Paul Street in Shoreditch — in the room for UK workshops, board meetings, and critical hires, with US-hours overlap and travel for the set pieces.
Technical due diligence as a fixed-fee project: 5–7 day turnaround with a written report ready for investment committee.
The strategy stays honest because I live with the code.
Every architectural call I make, I'm also accountable for as a contributor on the same codebase. I ship in Java, TypeScript, Node, Python, and Solidity, pair with the team on the hard problems, and review the pull requests that matter. That's the difference between a Fractional CTO and an advisor who visits once a month.
A build you can't evaluate, a demo that has to ship, or a certificate a contract is waiting on.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call — and point you toward someone who is.