Technology Advisory
A CTO's judgment without a CTO's payroll
Senior technology leadership on your side of the table, without a full-time hire.
Between founding and your hundredth engineer, there's a long stretch where technology decisions outweigh technology headcount: vendor selection, architecture calls, hiring bars, and board translation. Renting senior judgment beats guessing.
- Architecture decisions made once, correctly
- Vendor spend that survives scrutiny
- A technology function your next CTO thanks you for
Capabilities
What the work actually involves
Fractional CTO leadership
A senior technologist owning your architecture authority, roadmap, and technical risk register.
Vendor & contract oversight
Someone on your side reading the SOWs, auditing the deliveries, and keeping vendors honest.
Hiring & team design
Role definitions, interview loops, and the first engineering hires that set your culture.
Dedicated engineering squads
Named Brihat teams under your direction — senior, stable, and accountable month to month.
Board & investor translation
Technology posture explained in risk and money — the language decisions get made in.
Architecture decision records
The significant choices written down with their reasoning and rejected alternatives, so the next engineer inherits the why rather than only the what.
Security and compliance oversight
Someone accountable for the controls, the vendor reviews and the audit evidence — the work that has no owner in most organisations until it urgently does.
Deliverables
What you are handed.
Yours to keep, and written so another team could pick them up.
Architecture authority
Someone senior who owns technical decisions and writes down why they were made.
Vendor evaluation and oversight
Run to the same scrutiny we would face, including on our own delivery arm.
Hiring design
Roles, levels, interview process and a bar — so your first engineering hires are not a lottery.
Board-level translation
The version your CFO and your investors can act on.
We do not publish prices — scope drives them. Everything else, here.
- Starts with
- A discovery month establishing the current position
- Typical duration
- Ongoing, six-month minimum
- Who you get
- A principal architect, with specialists pulled in by the day
- Commercial model
- Monthly, by days per month
How to decide
What the answer depends on.
Two sets of conditions. Read both against your own situation — most organisations recognise themselves in one column within a sentence or two.
This is the right call when
- You are spending seriously on technology with nobody senior to challenge it.
- You are hiring an engineering team and have never done it before.
- A full-time CTO is not yet justified but the decisions are already being made.
A different approach fits better when
- You already have a CTO — this becomes two people with one job.
- You want an implementation team; that is Dedicated Teams.
- You want someone to approve decisions rather than examine them.
Before you ask
Questions about CTO-as-a-Service
Sectors
Where this comes up most.
The regulatory context and the systems already in the building change the build. Each sector page says how.
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Next step
Bring us the problem. We will bring the architecture.
A discovery call takes forty-five minutes. You leave with our read on the problem, the shape of the system we would propose, and a straight answer on whether we are the right team for it.
- No sales deck
- An engineer on the call, not an account manager
- NDA before you share anything