Fractional CTO · from £5k/month
A CTO without the £150k salary.
I embed in your team as a part-time CTO. Technical strategy, architecture decisions, vendor selection, team hiring, AI integration, security reviews, and shipping the things that matter — without the £150k+ annual cost. Experience from IBM, Vimeo, Kaltura, and Monotype applied to your business.
What a fractional CTO actually does
I sit next to your founder / CEO two to four days a month. We work through the technical decisions that will shape the next 12 months — what to build in-house, what to buy, which vendor is going to regret you in 18 months, how to hire your first engineer without getting fleeced by a recruiter.
I'll also do the uncomfortable bits — reviewing the code of contractors you've already hired, calling out security holes nobody's flagged, killing the shiny project that's not going to return.
What you get
- 2–4 days/month, flexible commitment, no long lock-in
- Board-level technical advisory (I can present to investors / your board)
- Hands-on when needed (yes, I'll write code) — strategic when not
- Vendor diligence — I've seen every pitch deck; I know the tells
- AI-augmented: backed by my own agent infrastructure so I deliver 3× what the days suggest
- Experienced in UK compliance landscape — GDPR, ICO, AI Act, Cyber Essentials
Who it's for
- Pre-Series A startups that need technical credibility for fundraising
- SMEs that have outgrown their outsourced dev agency but aren't ready for a full-time head
- Founders with a non-technical background who need a partner for the tech side
- Companies with existing engineers who need senior direction, not more hands
Want to skip ahead five years of technical mistakes?
Let's jump on a 30-minute call. I'll tell you whether a fractional CTO is what you need — or whether you'd be better off with a contractor, a hire, or a different product entirely.