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Fractional CTO Services

A hands-on technical leader embedded in your team 1-3 days a week. Architecture decisions, team building, and production code — not slide decks.

Published

November 17, 2025

An operator, not an advisor

A full-time CTO runs $250K-$500K+ a year and takes 3-6 months to hire. I give you the same capability — architecture calls, team leadership, vendor decisions, technology roadmap — 1-3 days a week, starting in days.

The difference between this and advisory: I make decisions, write code when it matters, and own the outcomes.

How it works

  • Weeks 1-2 — Audit: I dig into your stack, talk to your engineers, find the quick wins. You get a prioritised roadmap.
  • Weeks 3-4 — Strategy: Architecture decisions with tradeoff analysis. Team structure. Hiring plan. Processes that won’t slow you down.
  • Months 2-6 — Build: Hands-on leadership. Architecture reviews, 1:1s with your leads, vendor management, shipping alongside the team.
  • Final month — Handoff: Documentation, knowledge transfer, recruitment support for a permanent CTO if you need one. Clean transition to lighter advisory.

What you get

  • Technology strategy that maps to business goals, not just engineering preferences
  • Architecture decisions documented with clear rationale
  • Engineering processes that scale with your team
  • Internal leaders developed through mentorship, not dependency on me
  • AI and emerging tech evaluation grounded in what actually ships

Who this is for

You’re at a growth inflection point. Or navigating a modernisation. Or filling a leadership gap. Fractional CTO works best when you need intensive support for 6-18 months and want to build internal capability — not permanent dependency.

Results

At REA Group, I co-founded REALABS and drove Matterport 3D scanning from zero to 5-6% of Australian property listings — generating 95% more buyer enquiries. At a European automotive marketplace, I led a high-traffic detail page rewrite and rescued a 360-degree photography product when the vendor pulled out. Shipped in four months.

25+ years of hands-on engineering. 58 countries. Operating from Estonia’s e-Residency structure for frictionless EU delivery.

See how this played out: Matterport at REA Group and the Unity AR Capture Pipeline rescue.

Book a free call

Schedule 30 minutes to talk through your challenges, objectives, and timeline.