Services / Fractional CTO
A fractional CTO
for growing UK businesses.
Senior technology leadership, 3 to 6 days a month, without a full-time hire. A part-time CTO who owns the roadmap, manages the developers and vendors, keeps your systems and data in order, and still builds things when that is quicker.
From £3,000 a month
Roadmaps, Suppliers, Systems, Data, Security, Builds
Sound familiar?
Technology decisions,
nobody to make them.
Most growing businesses need senior technical judgement a few days a month, not a full-time CTO salary.
01
Quotes you cannot judge.
Developers and vendors send proposals, and nobody in the business can check them.
02
Systems that do not talk.
Website, CRM, stock and accounts each hold their own version of the truth.
03
Risky changes.
Platform switches and migrations planned on hope, with no rollback if they go wrong.
04
A hire you are not ready for.
A full-time CTO is a big cost before you know what the role needs.
What you get
A technical lead
who also builds.
The same senior person every month, accountable for the plan and the systems.
01 · Roadmap
A technology roadmap.
A plain plan for websites, systems, data and automation, in the order we would do it.
02 · Suppliers
Supplier management.
Briefing, checking and challenging developers, agencies and software vendors.
03 · Systems
Joined-up systems.
Website, CRM, stock and accounts connected, so data is entered once and trusted everywhere.
04 · Risk
Security and continuity.
Access, backups and data handling reviewed, with risky changes run with a rollback plan.
05 · Reporting
Owner and board updates.
A short monthly update in plain English on what moved, what it cost and what is next.
06 · Build
Hands on when needed.
Integrations, dashboards and automation built directly, when that is faster than a brief.
What a month looks like
3 to 6 days,
planned around you.
An illustrative month. The split between planning, leading and building changes with what the business needs.
01
Plan
Week 1
Roadmap, budget and priorities reviewed with the owners.
02
Lead
Week 2
Supplier calls, developer check-ins and decisions on what gets built next.
03
Build
Week 3
Hands-on time on the system or integration that matters most that month.
04
Report
Week 4
A short written update: what shipped, what did not and what is next.
Based in Mallorca, one hour ahead of UK time. In London when it matters.
Case study
Platform change · London estate agency
2 → 29
A CRM switch, back to 29 listings in two weeks
A London estate agency changed property CRM and its live site drained to 2 listings. We mapped the data field by field, tested the new CRM's real API, fixed the import, ran the feed in parallel and cut over the same day with rollback kept open.
- 64 properties and 893 images analysed and scoped
- Field-by-field mapping audit
- A cutover runbook with a rollback plan
- Same-day cutover, old feed paused rather than deleted
- Imports every 15 minutes, with no fatal errors recorded
Client anonymised.
Read the case study →29
Live listings after a CRM switch, from 2
19
Days, first commit to launch
16
Prioritised findings from a two-day review
Price
Priced by
the month.
No recruitment fee. Lead runs month to month, with days and priorities agreed each month.
Questions
Questions about
fractional CTOs.
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Our fractional CTO service starts from £3,000 a month, for 3 to 6 days a month. Most businesses start at 3 days and adjust. There is no recruitment fee, and the arrangement runs month to month.
Owns the technology plan and the decisions behind it. That means choosing and managing developers and software vendors, keeping systems secure and joined up, and building things directly when that is quicker than briefing someone else.
An agency retainer buys delivery. A fractional CTO buys judgement: someone on your side who decides what should be built, checks the work and challenges the quote. Many clients have both, with us managing the agency.
Usually more so. Most of our clients are retailers, agencies, property businesses and charities whose website, CRM, data and automation have grown without anyone owning them.
Yes. We build websites, integrations, dashboards and automation ourselves, and run live software in our own businesses, including Milleso. Larger builds are delivered with agency partners, led by Kinsman & Co, with the same senior lead throughout.
Yes. We set standards, review code and plans, and help them make decisions, rather than replacing them. Where there is no in-house team, we find and manage the right suppliers.
Other services
A part-time CMO for plan, budget and agencies.
How our fractional roles work, and who leads them.
Dashboards and pipelines you can trust.
Lead technology without
the full-time hire.
Tell us what your systems need to do next. We'll tell you honestly whether a fractional CTO is the right answer.