Fractional CTO Services

A High Impact CTO Service For Startups, Scaleups & SMEs

We help you to make smart technology investments that will power massive growth and avoid expensive mistakes.

Startup CTO

Bring your idea to the market without making costly technology mistakes. We help you secure funding, find a development team & build a quality product.

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Scaleup CTO

Scale your technology stack, innovate quickly, integrate your systems and automate your processes to support your rapid business growth.

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SME CTO

Drive value creation with high ROI technology investments, internal disruption & business model innovation. Maximise your business valuation prior to exit with focussed technology enablement.

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Graham has been an invaluable asset from the word go. He has helped us to build and implement a strategy to make a big technological leap as a business to work more efficiently and improve our offering to clients.
-- Matthew Houliston, Serve Legal Ltd

Startup CTO

We help startups figure out how much money they need in order to bring their idea to the market. Next we use our network of trusted contacts to find the right team to build out the tech. We implement effective ways of working to get your idea built to spec at the first time of asking and then we help you iterate quickly as you establish product market fit.

Scaleup CTO

We enable scaleups to grow their business by ensuring their tech stack is ready for rapid growth. Sometimes this means upgrading the software and infrastruture of the core product to handle increasing usage, sometimes it means prioritising and implementing innovative new features and at other times it means upgrading and integrating essential business systems so the operational side of the business can meet growing demand in areas such as sales, customer support and fulfilment.

SME CTO

We help SME owners and leaders make the technology investments that will power massive growth and drive value creation. We apply technology to enable ambitious business transformations, we disrupt from within to secure market leadership and we unlock hidden value by introducing digitally and data backed business models.

We are commercially focussed and align our efforts with priority KPIs and will support business owners in maximising their valuation prior to exit.

Grahams expertise cannot be overstated! He was incredibly valuable in guiding us through a new technical project and ensuring the project was to be delivered to our spec and in budget. He's a very rare case of top technical knowledge, commercial accumen and crafting 'laymen explanations' to complex issues.
-- Matthew Walsh, IMRG

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Making Smart Technology Investments

The right technology investments can power massive growth for your business. But the wrong technology investments can burn cash, tie up your people and destroy value.

Your decision to hire a CTO will unlock your company's potential. A force multiplier will join your team and will enable:

  • Rapid innovation
  • Process optimisation
  • Business transformation
  • Scale up
  • High Performance Development Teams

You will be empowered to make high ROI technology investments. Your technology investment portfolio will be part of a digital strategy that secures market leadership for your company.

Your digital strategy will draw on transformative technical know how to leverage your Full Stack to create long lasting value for your business.

Create value for your SME today and engage our Fractional CTO services.

Our battle tested playboook that has been refined by working with multiple teams, industries and technology stacks, plus a wide range of real world business challenges can deliver value to your business from day 1.

Get in touch today to discuss the impact you could make to your business by hiring a fractional CTO.

In the short space of time that Graham has been working with Serve Legal his contribution has been really positive. We are grateful for his expertise and insight!
-- Julian Sargeson, Serve Legal Ltd

Our Specialisms

No two companies are the same and no two CTOs have the same background and skillset. At Full Stack Consulting we specialise in helping SMEs who have realised a need to make transformative use of technology. Our Fractional CTO service places particular emphasis on the following areas, wich have proven to be high value for our SME clients:

Taking High ROI Technology Investments To The Board

Working with business stakeholders we will quickly understand how your business works. We start by understanding what value is created by your company - what products and services do your customers purchase from you? Next we analyse internal processes and customer touchpoints to understand how that value is created. Finally we analyse your relative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

This process often reveals technology investment opportunities ranging from:

  • Automating business processes
  • Optimising customer experience
  • Improving, integrating and liberating data so it can drive better decsion making

The portfolio of investment candidates is prioritised with the business based on a high level assessment of the expected effort and impact. The high priority investment candidates are scoped in detail to establlish a business case that analyses:

  • What needs to be delivered?
  • How could it be delivered?
  • What is the likelihood of success?
  • What is the value to the business?
  • What is the likely cost?
  • What is the time to value realisation?

If the business case demonstrates that the technology investment will yield a high return on investment the case is presented to the board of directors so the investment profile can be assessed alongside other investments the board may be considering.

Business Model Innovation

At Full Stack Consulting we have an abundance of both technical and commercial experience. We use this experience to evaluate what is unique about your business that we can bring to market in new and innovative ways.

This could involve taking a product/service that has traditionally been consumed passively, offline and adding a new, digitally backed offering that is available on demand, online.

It could involve leveraging your intellectual property that has been established servicing your current target market by identifying components that could serve a wider market and offering them to market as a Software as a Service offering.

No two companies are the same, but with technology continuously evolving there are huge opportunities to build revenue by developing new business models.

Building High Performance Development Teams

Too many companies fail to execute because their development team is stuck in the weeds. At Full Stack Consulting we have played the role of developer, architect, consultant, CTO, dev agency owner, dev agency customer and we know how to build high performance dev teams that deliver high quality projects at pace.

Using Outsourced Development Teams Effectively

Over the years we have worked with a lot of outsourced development teams. Sometimes we parachute in to help resolve customer-supplier relationships that are reaching breaking point. At other times we have a blank canvas and identify the ideal outsourced development team for a particular situation.

In either scenario we set about implementing effective ways of working that benefit both parties. Customers get a development team offering transparency, quality and value. Outsourced partners get clear direction on requirements and happy customers.

Enablement

Technology moves fast. In the last decade we have seen rapid innovation in areas such as:

  • Cloud, containers, serverless
  • AI (artificial intelligence)
  • Augmented reality
  • Big data
  • Blockchain

As your Fractional CTO we help you understand not only which technologies you should be considering, but also what it will take to enable your company to adopt these technologies.

For example, this could be more data or better data. It could be integrated data sets. It could be a new development team with an entirely different skillset.

Regardless of the gap, we will identify it. Next we will help you determine how urgently to bridge that gap. Some technologies should be adopted urgently to gain competitive advantage. Equally some technologies, while fashionable, might be wholly inappropriate for certain use cases, simply presenting the opportunity to burn time and money on vanity projects.

I have worked with Graham on a number of system integration projects over the last 3 years, Graham has always been extremely knowledgeable, diligent and excellent at producing and interpreting detailed specifications. I know I can rely on Graham to help out if and when issues arise.
-- Denis Jenkins, The Scouts Association

Costs

Review our Fractional CTO rates here.

Frequently asked questions

What is a Fractional CTO?

The meaning of the term Fractional CTO, or Fractional Chief Technology Officer, is a CTO who works for a company for a fraction of their time, for example 1 day per week. A Fractional CTO will tend to work with a small portfolio of clients, giving each of them a fractional of their overall time. Similarly, for companies this means they can appoint a CTO for a fraction of the cost of a typical C suite hire. For more information read our article comparing the roles of Fractional CTO and Part Time CTO

What is a CTO?

A CTO is a Chief Technology Officer. A CTO is responsible for designing and implementing a technical strategy that enables the wider business strategy to be delivered.

What are some alternate names for a Fractional CTO?

While these terms are not wholly interchangeable people often use the following terms Fractional CTO, FCTO, Part Time CTO, CTO as a Service, Consulting CTO, Virtual CTO.

What are typical fractional CTO rates?

As with many things, the rates charged by fractional CTOs depends on many things, such as: experience, track record, scarcity of a specialist skill, geographic location and more.

Our fractional CTO service has three engagement models to suit businesses at different stages. Find out more on our Fractional CTO pricing page

How much does our Fractional CTO service cost?

Our fractional CTO service has three engagement models to suit businesses at different stages. Find out more on our Fractional CTO pricing page

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