Fractional CTO for UK and EU AI Startups
On-demand technical leadership: architecture decisions, engineering hiring, investor due diligence, and MVP-to-scale roadmaps, without the full-time cost or equity dilution.
The decisions stay yours. The homework is ours.
Set a technology roadmap, make the right first engineering hires, or walk into a data room with a defensible architecture story.
What a Fractional CTO Does
Technology Strategy
Define your technology roadmap, align engineering with product vision, and make the architectural decisions that will scale with your business.
Team Leadership
Lead and mentor your engineering team, establish culture, define hiring profiles, and build the processes that let teams move fast.
Architecture Review
Audit your current technical stack, identify what will break as load grows, reduce technical debt, and produce a clear prioritised remediation plan.
How We Work Together
Advisory
A monthly retainer for strategic guidance, board preparation, and on-call availability. Ideal for founders who need a senior technology advisor.
Embedded
Part-time embedded within your organisation, attending standups, leading engineering, and working alongside your team day-to-day.
Project-Based
A fixed-scope engagement for a specific challenge: architecture review, due diligence preparation, team restructuring, or technical strategy sprint.
Board Level
Representation at board level, translating technical strategy into business outcomes and providing independent oversight of technology decisions.
What we do, how it works, and what you sign
Senior technical leadership, precisely when you need it
A technology roadmap, the first engineering hires, investor-ready diligence documentation, an architecture review with a prioritised remediation plan, and on-call escalation.
The founder still ships code
You are not hiring a slide-deck advisor: the person who reviews your architecture is the person who writes systems.
Documents your team can act on without us in the room
The roadmap, the hiring profiles, the architecture assessment and the diligence pack are written for your own people and your investors.
Scoped per engagement, and quoted before it starts
Cadence, the decisions in scope, what is delivered in writing, and who is on call for what. Quoted per engagement.
Why founders work with us
Frequently asked questions
What is a fractional CTO?
A senior technology leader who supports your company part-time on an ongoing basis, owning architecture decisions, engineering hiring and technical strategy without the cost or commitment of a permanent executive.
When should a startup hire a fractional CTO?
When the product idea is validated and you are scaling past the MVP, when investor diligence is on the calendar, when a CTO has departed, or when a regulated sector needs security ownership you cannot yet staff.
Can a fractional CTO help with investor technical due diligence?
Yes. We prepare architecture and security assessments, load-handling evidence and a remediation plan that the investor data room can support.
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Bring your fundraise timeline, your engineering headcount, and one architectural decision keeping you up at night.
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