IT Consultancy — built honestly
Founder-level technical leadership when you're not ready to hire a full-time CTO — honest advice, clear roadmaps, and no vendor agenda.
Pain points you'll recognise
If any of these are true for you, this service was designed for exactly that situation.
You're making technology decisions without in-house technical leadership.
Vendors keep overselling — and you can't verify what they promise.
There's a strategy somewhere, but nobody owns the roadmap end-to-end.
The outcome, stated plainly
Not features for their own sake — what changes in your business when this service is done well.
Independent technical direction
- Fractional CTO and executive advisory with no product to push
- Honest answers — including 'you don't need code for this yet'
A roadmap you can execute
- Prioritised digital roadmaps tied to business outcomes, not features
- Realistic sizing against the capacity you actually have
Risk reduction
- Vendor and third-party system reviews before you commit
- Disaster-recovery and business-continuity planning you can rehearse
How we can work together
Two honest ways to work with us. Both start with a discovery conversation.
An honest audit of where you are and a prioritised plan to where you want to be
- Structured interviews and system review
- A written, prioritised roadmap
- Fixed days, fixed fee
Ongoing technical leadership without a full-time hire
- A set number of days per month of senior technical direction
- Execution support for your team and vendors
- Benchmarked against what a full-time CTO would cost
A timeline you can hold us to
Realistic phases, reported weekly. Here's the shape of a typical engagement.
01. Week 1
Interviews, system review, and an honest read of where you stand.
02. Weeks 2–3
Roadmap, cost view, and the top risks to fix first.
03. Week 4
Presentation and handover — then advisory on execution.
04. Ongoing
Fractional CTO retainer: decisions, vendor reviews, and monthly direction.
Proof, published as it happens
- We publish real client outcomes as projects complete — not stock photography of other people's work.
- Every case study includes the metrics that matter: tests, rollout approach, and the problem as it actually was.
- Want proof sooner? Start small — a scoped pilot or assessment shows our working style in weeks.
Honest limits we communicate
What we won't pretend: scope notes that keep our commitments honest.
- We are a founder-led company that scales with specialist contractors per engagement — our advisory calendar is small and deliberately so.
- We advise within our genuine expertise and will tell you when a specialist (legal, audit, regulatory) is needed.
Before you commit
Then we say so. Our advice isn't tied to selling engineering hours — sometimes the right answer is process change or a cheaper existing tool.
Discuss a IT Consultancy engagement
Tell us the problem you're solving and we'll come back with an honest view — scoped to what can genuinely be delivered.
No obligations — just an assessment.