Fractional CTO
Interim Technical Leadership
You have a tech team — but no one truly steering it. I take that role, part-time, to stabilise the situation without the overhead of a full-time CTO hire.
The problem
Your startup is growing but your technical organisation isn't keeping up. As a non-technical founder or manager, you're spending time managing technical fire drills, arbitrating architecture debates, and filling a CTO role that doesn't exist — instead of focusing on your business. The result: everyone moves in their own direction, nothing is prioritised, and deliveries drag on.
Does this sound familiar?
- Sprints constantly overrun and estimates never hold
- Your devs are waiting for technical decisions instead of building
- The roadmap changes too often and no one knows what's a priority
- You struggle to evaluate technical candidates when hiring
- Code quality varies wildly from one developer to another
- You're managing tech emergencies instead of steering your product
Who it's for
Early-stage startup
Seed → Series A, scaling without a CTO in place or with a CTO who is too junior for the context.
SME / scale-up
Tech team of 2 to 10 people, needing senior leadership without committing to a full-time hire.
Non-technical founder
Who is coordinating the tech by default and wants to hand that responsibility to an expert.
CTO absent or in transition
Sudden departure, maternity leave, junior CTO: I step in to stabilise until the right person is in place.
What I do
Technical organisation audit
Assessment of current processes, skills and practices. Starting point for every engagement.
Roadmap and prioritisation
Defining technical OKRs, arbitrating between projects, aligning with business objectives.
Delivery rituals
Setting up or overhauling sprints, stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives so the team actually ships.
Standards and governance
Code review, coding conventions, documentation, security: I lay the foundations that last.
Hiring support
Defining technical profiles, running technical interviews, onboarding new developers.
What you get
Format
Does your team need direction?
A 30-minute call to understand your situation and see whether a Fractional CTO engagement makes sense.