Fractional Leadership
Fractional CIO / CTO
Strategic technology leadership, scaled to your business. Roadmaps, vendor evaluation, budget planning, and the kind of executive-level IT thinking most businesses outgrow needing full-time.
When the role fits.
A full-time CIO or CTO typically runs two hundred thousand a year in salary alone, before benefits and overhead. For most businesses under about 500 people, that doesn't pencil out. But running without that caliber of thinking usually means drift: tools that never get evaluated, vendors that never get renegotiated, technology decisions made in the gaps between everything else leadership is trying to do.
A fractional CIO or CTO fills that gap. You get the same thinking, the same cadence, the same seat at the leadership table, sized to how much of it you actually need.
What the role covers.
Technology roadmap
A written plan for where the technology stack goes over the next 12 to 36 months, tied to where the business is trying to go. Not a wishlist, not a vendor pitch.
Vendor evaluation and negotiation
Objective review of the vendors you have, the ones you're considering, and the ones you could drop. We don't take commissions, so the recommendation is what fits your business.
IT budget planning
Align IT spend with business outcomes. What's earning its keep, what's drifting, and what should be cut. Quarterly reviews built into the engagement.
Alignment with business goals
Standing seat in leadership conversations where technology decisions matter. Translation between what the business wants and what the stack can actually support.
Team augmentation and hiring
Help evaluating your internal IT team, coaching managers, writing job descriptions, and interviewing senior candidates when a full-time hire is the right answer.
Major initiatives and decisions
Cloud migrations, ERP replacements, security overhauls, M&A integration. The kind of calls that benefit from executive-level IT judgment at the table.
How engagements work.
- Scoped to your cadence. Half a day a week, a day a month, or embedded for a specific initiative. Adjusted quarterly as the business changes.
- No vendor commissions. The recommendations you get are about what fits your business, not what earns us a kickback. That applies to tools, platforms, and consultants we might bring in.
- Contracts that don't outlast the work. 30 days notice to part ways, no cancellation penalties. The quarterly review looks for what should change, up or down.
- We'll tell you when you don't need us. If the honest answer is that you're ready for a full-time hire, or that a project scope fits better than ongoing advisory, we'll say so.
Not sure if fractional leadership fits?
Start with your free hour. We'll walk through where the business is, where technology is helping or getting in the way, and whether fractional CIO or CTO is actually the right answer. No pitch, no contract.
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