Leadership

CTO as a Service

Embedded technical leadership without a full-time CTO hire. Architecture decisions, hiring, vendor calls and a technology story your board and investors will back. Proven at Ordermentum.

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Sound familiar?

What we hear before we start.

"We are raising and our technology story will not survive a serious investor's diligence."

"We have engineers but nobody senior enough to own architecture, hiring and the hard trade-offs."

"Every vendor is selling us AI and we have no independent voice in the room."

What you get

What a fractional CTO actually owns.

Architecture and strategy

The expensive-to-reverse calls: build or buy, platforms, data and AI strategy.

Hiring and team design

Specs, interview panels and org design, so you build the right team.

Vendor and AI evaluation

Independent bake-offs and contract reviews, including when the answer is do not buy.

Board and investor story

An architecture narrative, roadmap and risk register that hold up in diligence.

Delivery and velocity

Why the build is slipping, and the practical fixes that get it back on track.

Governance and risk

Security, data and AI risk framed clearly for your board.

Outcomes

What changes when we are done.

Board-ready

A technology story and risk register that hold up when investors dig in.

Right hires

Senior engineering hires made on a real spec, with us on the panel.

Independent

No vendor kickbacks. We tell you when to buy, build or wait.

2 to 4 days

Embedded leadership at a fraction of a full-time CTO, dialled up or down.

Ways to engage

Start small. Keep what works.

Diagnose

Technical Due Diligence

Two-week diagnostic of architecture, team, delivery risk and AI readiness, for a raise, an acquisition or your own board.

from A$10K

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Lead

Fractional CTO

Two to four days a week, embedded. We own architecture, hiring and vendor calls and carry the technical story.

from A$12K/mo

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Advise

Advisory retainer

A senior sounding board for your founder, CEO and lead engineers, on tap for the hard decisions.

from A$6K/mo

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Questions

What people usually ask.

How is this different from consulting?

We operate. The calls come from people who have built and run production systems and lived the consequences.

Will you support a raise or sale?

Yes. Diligence prep, data-room materials and sitting in the technical session are part of the work.

How many days a week?

Usually two to four, adjusted as your needs change.

The stack

What we build with.

We are model and cloud agnostic. We pick what suits your data, your team and your budget, and we have shipped production work on every tool here.

ENTERPRISE AI PLATFORMS

Agents on the platforms you already trust.

Your data stays in your tenancy and your region. We design, build and run agents on whichever cloud or model provider your security team already approved.

MICROSOFT AZURE

Microsoft Foundry

Foundry Agent Service with OpenAI, Claude, Grok and Llama modelsAgents wired into Microsoft 365, Teams and SharePointRegional data zones for Australia and Canada

Best when you run on Microsoft 365 and Entra ID.

AMAZON WEB SERVICES

Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore

AgentCore runtime, memory, gateway and identity for production agentsClaude, Llama and Amazon Nova with Bedrock GuardrailsKnowledge Bases over S3, RDS and your data lake

Best when your data and workloads already live in AWS.

GOOGLE CLOUD

Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise

Gemini and Claude through Vertex AI Model GardenAgents built with the Agent Development Kit and Agent EngineGrounded in BigQuery and Google Workspace

Best when you are on BigQuery or Google Workspace.

ANTHROPIC

Claude

Agents on the Claude API with the Agent SDK and MCPClaude Code rolled out to engineering teamsClaude for Enterprise with your SSO and data controls

Best when reasoning, writing and code quality decide the outcome.

OPENAI

OpenAI

Agents built on the Responses API and Agents SDKChatGPT Enterprise connected to your internal toolsCodex for engineering teams

Best when ChatGPT is already in your people's hands.

XAI · SPACEX

Grok

Grok models through the xAI APIAgents that read live public signals in real timeGrok alongside other models behind one router

Best when speed and live market or social signals matter.

DATA PLATFORMS

Snowflake and Databricks

Cortex Agents and Mosaic AI working where your data already sitsQuestions in plain English answered over governed tablesYour existing access rules apply to every agent query

Best when your data lives in a warehouse or lakehouse.