Fractional CTO
What is a Fractional CTO?
Do you need someone to lead your tech whilst you focus on your business? We provide this support without the cost and commitment of hiring a full time Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
With our Fractional CTO service you gain access to a team of experts who can support you and your team with everything from strategy and roadmap planning, to mentoring your tech team and implementing processes and frameworks to increase accuracy and productivity.
We get the ball rolling by taking time to understand your vision and the challenges and opportunities you and your business face. This allows us to work in close alignment, handling the tech to support you as you focus on growth.
What You Can Expect:
- A deep understanding of your business and your vision
- Strategic planning and tech/product roadmaps
- Budget validation and de-risking investment
- Accelerating your team - mentoring and guidance
- Accelerating your team - processes and frameworks
- Keeping you up to date on the latest technologies and trends
- Support with getting investment ready
Our Fractional CTO Includes
How It Works
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North Star Workshop
Getting a deep understanding of your vision, business and challenges
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The North Star Workshop creates a shared vision between you and us, avoiding common project pitfalls caused by misaligned expectations. Clients find it helps them discover new perspectives, risks, and opportunities, and unify their team’s vision.
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Product and Team Audit
Get into the details of your product and the team supporting it
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We analyse the technical quality of your tech, and capabilities and processes of your team, to identify any barriers to frictionless scaling. You might have a great product team, but they could be held back by inefficient DevOps or poor planning and product management. Our goal is to identify and present solutions to any deep-rooted inefficiencies.
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Implementation
Implementing solutions from the audit
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This stage varies depending on your business, but it’s all about getting hands on and removing technical or operational barriers to growth. This could involve implementing a new DevOps and QA process to increase your teams’ output, moving cloud infrastructure to optimise costs, identifying opportunities to implement AI and much more.
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Handover
Handing solutions over to your team
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Our Fractional CTO solution is about giving you what you want. If you want a hands on, fully or partially integrated partner to keep delivering, that’s great. If your goal is to ensure total independence from third-parties and become completely self-sufficient, we can provide the tools, skills and leadership needed to make that happen.
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The Benefits of Fractional CTO
The Fractional CTO service accelerates your growth, allowing you to do more with the team and product that you have. By understanding your vision we can act as your proxy when working with the product team – ensuring their operations are as efficient as possible, and remain aligned with the goals of the business.
Additionally our experience allows us to identify and handle risks and opportunities that might not be on your radar as the founder – or that you simply might not have the capacity to think about. You can focus on growing the business, knowing that your tech and product will back you up.
How People Feel About Working With Us
Frequently Asked Questions
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Can you work with our existing team?
Yes – we’re happy to work alongside in-house teams, if you have an in-house team part of our objective will be to support them to work as efficiently as possible. Improving things like DevOps, project management structure and testing processes so they can deliver more valuable work.
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Are you going to recommend we rebuild our tech in your preferred stack?
No we’re tech agnostic – the tech is just a tool to allow you to do what you want to do. We’d always look first at how you can mitigate any issues with the tech you have.
The only time we’d recommend rebuilding is if it has real world business benefits for you – that clearly outweigh the effort required.
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Can you actually build things for us if we need you to?
Yes – we’ve got a team of experienced product builders from UX to infrastructure who can get hands on and deliver projects and fill capacity or skills gaps to get a product over the line.
It’s this capacity that sets us apart from a traditional Fractional CTO.
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Can you support us with investor interviews or due diligence?
Yes we can support you with the technical aspects of fundraising and due diligence, including attending pitches/interviews with investors if required.
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Do you take equity?
No, we don’t take equity for any of the services we offer.