06 — Practice
Senior technology judgment without a full-time executive hire.
This practice does not centre on shipping code. It centres on a standing decision register and a leadership cadence. Vendor oversight, architecture, and roadmap decisions are the primary output — documented with a named owner and a reversal trigger.
In one sentence
Architecture reviews, roadmaps, and build-versus-buy calls you can execute against.
Who it is for
- Founders who need a CTO cadence before they can hire one
- Boards that need an independent read on a vendor or platform bet
- Leadership teams whose technology decisions have no written owner
Problems it solves
- Roadmaps that are wish lists
- Vendor lock-in sold as partnership
- Architecture that exists only in one person’s head
Key benefits
- 01
Decisions with owners and reversal conditions
- 02
Board-ready reporting
- 03
No implementation lock-in
Process
- Gate 01
Current-state assessment
What is actually true about the organisation today.
- Gate 02
Decision register
Named calls, evidence, and the condition that would reopen them.
- Gate 03
Cadence
Weekly or fortnightly leadership, not a one-off slide deck.
Deliverables
- Architecture reviews
- Technology roadmaps
- Vendor evaluations
- Build-versus-buy calls
What we build with
Stack-agnostic — evaluated against your constraints
Questions
- Is this a disguised delivery engagement?
- No. Strategic advisory has no delivery component. Fractional CTO may recommend a build, but building it is a separate, explicit decision.