A fractional CTO gives you senior technical leadership for a few days a month instead of a full-time salary. This practice offers four shapes of it (fractional CTO, AI strategy consulting, business process automation and systems architecture) to founder-led companies across India, US, the UK and Australia.
A capable full-time CTO is a long search and a heavy salary, and most companies at this stage need the judgement far more than they need the headcount. These are the four shapes that work.
Senior technical ownership without a senior technical salary.
I sit in your leadership meetings, own the roadmap, and make the calls a founder should not have to make alone. This suits companies with real technical spend and nobody accountable for it.
Decide which AI is worth adopting, and which is only a demo.
A grounded read on where AI actually moves your numbers, what it costs to run, where it must not touch your data, and how to measure whether it worked. Opinionated and vendor-neutral.
Find the hours your team is losing, then take them back.
We trace the manual work across sales, ops and support, rank it by hours saved against effort, and automate from the top down. WhatsApp, CRM, billing, onboarding and reporting: the unglamorous work that compounds.
Make the tools you already pay for talk to each other.
Most companies do not need new software. They need the eight systems they already own to share one version of the truth, securely, without a person copying rows between them.
The industries differ. The failure modes almost never do: disconnected systems, manual handoffs, and nobody senior enough to arbitrate between vendors.
Patient intake, records, care coordination
Policy ERP, agent portals, claims workflow
Listings, lead routing, sales pipelines
Investment platforms, encrypted partner APIs
Bookings, driver allocation, automated invoicing
GST e-invoicing, ledgers, role-based access
No proposal theatre. A call, a diagnostic, then a decision you make with real information.
Thirty minutes. You describe what is not working; I ask the questions that separate a symptom from a cause. You leave with at least one useful thing whether or not we continue.
Two to three weeks mapping the business and the stack. Ends in a written architecture and a ranked roadmap that is yours to keep, and usable by any implementer.
Either we scope the first build, or we move to a standing fractional CTO arrangement. Plenty of clients take the diagnostic and execute it themselves, and that is a legitimate outcome.
That is a normal place to start. Describe what is not working and I will tell you which of these fits, or that none of them do yet.
