Services

CTO work packaged for decisions, budgets, and momentum.

Fractional CTO can be too vague for enterprise procurement. These are named, scoped engagements with clear operating shape, deliverables, and investment ranges so a CEO, founder, or board can map the work to a real budget line.

01 Interim CTO retainer

90-Day Stabilise

Embedded technology leadership when the system, team, or roadmap needs executive control fast.

Engagement Shape

90-day minimum / 2-3 days per week embedded

Typical Investment

From A$2,800/day. Typical range A$22,400-$33,600/month.

A focused interim CTO engagement for founders, boards, and executive teams who need senior technology leadership before a permanent CTO is in seat, during a delivery reset, or through a critical operating window. The work is intentionally practical: stabilise the team, surface the real architectural risks, restore delivery rhythm, and give vendors and internal leaders a clear point of accountability.

Best Fit

  • Scaleups with a capable team but no senior technology executive
  • Boards needing a steady technical operator during transition
  • Leadership teams facing vendor, roadmap, or delivery confidence issues

Expected Outcomes

Clear technical accountability

Visible delivery priorities

Reduced vendor ambiguity

Board-ready operating narrative

Scope

  • Technology leadership across roadmap, delivery cadence, and executive decision-making
  • Team stabilisation, role clarity, engineering rituals, and operating rhythm
  • Architecture review across product, platform, data, integrations, and delivery risk
  • Vendor management, commercial challenge, implementation oversight, and escalation handling

Deliverables

  • Executive technology risk memo in the first fortnight
  • 90-day action plan with accountable owners and decision points
  • Architecture and vendor recommendations mapped to business risk
  • Weekly leadership summary suitable for founders, CEO, or board reporting
Book a 30-minute scoping call Download PDF overview One-page overview PDF for internal sharing and procurement conversations.
02 4-6 week assessment

AI Readiness Sprint

A commercial, operational, and technical read on where AI can create real leverage.

Engagement Shape

4-6 weeks / fixed-scope sprint

Typical Investment

Fixed price from A$35,000. Typical range A$35,000-$55,000.

A structured AI strategy sprint for organisations that know AI matters, but need help separating useful opportunity from noise. The engagement audits current capability, identifies high-value use cases, maps build-versus-buy options, and turns the findings into an implementation roadmap that a board or executive team can actually approve.

Best Fit

  • Executive teams under pressure to define an AI strategy
  • Organisations with scattered AI experiments and no operating model
  • Boards needing a credible roadmap before allocating material spend

Expected Outcomes

Sharper AI investment logic

Board-ready decision material

Practical first pilots

Governance before scale

Scope

  • AI capability audit across systems, data, workflows, people, governance, and tooling
  • Use case identification and prioritisation using commercial value, feasibility, and risk
  • Vendor landscape review across frontier models, workflow platforms, automation tools, and integration partners
  • Implementation roadmap covering first pilots, operating model, governance, and investment sequence

Deliverables

  • Current-state AI capability scorecard
  • Prioritised use-case portfolio with value, risk, and complexity scoring
  • Vendor and tooling landscape with recommended shortlist
  • Board presentation and executive roadmap for the next 90-180 days
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03 2-3 week engagement

Edge Architecture Review

A Cloudflare-native audit for teams moving performance, cost, and resilience closer to the edge.

Engagement Shape

2-3 weeks / fixed-scope review

Typical Investment

Fixed price from A$18,000. Typical range A$18,000-$30,000.

A technical architecture review for teams already using, or considering, Cloudflare Workers, Pages, KV, D1, R2, and related edge services. The aim is not to admire the architecture diagram. It is to pressure-test the runtime, uncover cost and performance risks, identify migration constraints, and produce a roadmap that engineering and commercial stakeholders can both understand.

Best Fit

  • Teams modernising a web platform, SaaS product, or content-heavy site
  • Founders worried about performance, hosting cost, or platform complexity
  • Engineering leaders planning a Cloudflare Workers or Pages migration

Expected Outcomes

Lower platform uncertainty

Cleaner edge architecture

Cost guardrails before scale

Migration path with fewer surprises

Scope

  • Cloudflare Workers, Pages, KV, D1, R2, caching, and routing architecture audit
  • Performance optimisation review across latency, asset delivery, server rendering, and API paths
  • Cost modelling for traffic growth, storage, function execution, third-party calls, and observability
  • Migration roadmap covering dependency sequencing, rollout safety, and operational guardrails

Deliverables

  • Architecture risk and opportunity report
  • Performance and cost model with practical thresholds
  • Cloudflare service fit assessment and migration plan
  • Implementation backlog ordered by impact, effort, and operational risk
Book a 30-minute scoping call Download PDF overview One-page overview PDF for internal sharing and procurement conversations.

Not sure which scope fits?

Start with the scoping call.

The first conversation is designed to sort urgency, budget shape, stakeholder needs, and whether the work should be a retainer, sprint, review, or something intentionally smaller.

Book a 30-minute scoping call