Senior judgment, part-time
For a team that needs technical leadership before it needs a full-time CTO.
What you get
- Technical roadmap
- Hiring and team structure advice
- Code and process review
- Vendor and tooling decisions
- Regular advisory sessions
What changes
- A roadmap the team can actually deliver against
- Hiring briefs that describe the work, not a buzzword list
- A founder stops being the bottleneck on technical calls
When teams call us
- A non-technical founder managing an agency or contractors
- A team growing past the point where everyone knows everything
- A CTO search that will take months to fill
Process
How the work runs
The same four phases whichever engagement model you pick, each ending in something you can read.
Brief
What decision you are trying to make, and what would change your mind. An audit without a decision behind it is a document nobody reads.
- Decision stated
- Constraints named
- Access arranged
Review
Code, architecture, infrastructure and process, weighted toward the parts that cost money when they fail.
- Code read
- Architecture mapped
- Team interviews
Findings
Written up and prioritised by impact against effort, with the reasoning included so you can disagree with it.
- Prioritised list
- Effort estimates
- Reasoning shown
Handover
A working session with your team. The output is theirs to act on, with or without us.
- Walkthrough
- Q&A
- No lock-in
Not sure which service your project needs?
Most useful projects cross two or three of them. Describe the outcome and we will map it.