Board-ready memo, risk heatmap, 90-day plan, and bill-of-cloud forecast delivered in under three days.
When a founder needs a technical adult in the room before hiring, raising, or shipping the next release.
Quantify deal-breakers early for VC, PE, or corp-dev teams—lite desk review or full technical deep dive.
Lead the change triggered by the assessment—hire, unblock, and de-risk with senior technical leadership.
RAG across product, platform, security, delivery, and people. Spot deal-breakers and trigger immediate remediation.
FinOps model benchmarking spend vs. commit discounts and rightsizing opportunities.
Sequenced playbook to stabilise delivery, upgrade leadership, and hit regulatory gates.
Shipping fast but worried about architecture debt, cloud sprawl, and hiring bar.
Scaling under regulatory scrutiny; need SOC2/ISO readiness and incident discipline.
Need fast, independent technical diligence on potential acquisitions.
Deciding build/partner/buy and want portfolio-wide risk visibility.
Proof from recent engagements keeps the diligence tight and the execution grounded.
“The 72-hour readout froze our board agenda with zero rewrites. Every risk call-out mapped to an owner and costed action.”
“Deal team insisted on this memo. The RAG heatmap and runway model let us defend the offer within the investment committee in a single session.”
Average runway unlocked across the last four diligence engagements before handing execution to the Fractional CTO cadence.
After the mutual NDA is signed and scope locked, engagements move through a three-step cadence built to get decisions made fast.
Lock the scope, confirm access, and share redacted samples from the Tech Sanity Check so stakeholders know what to expect.
Interviews, repo/CI review, FinOps model, and threat assessments powered by Technical Due Diligence and Information Security Risk playbooks.
Present remediation sequencing, secure quick wins, and—if engaged—run the 12-week Fractional CTO execution cadence.
Board-ready 10-page assessment covering architecture, security, delivery, and people—the same artifact shipped with the Tech Sanity Check.
Request the sampleWalkthrough of how we score severity, rank remediation, and communicate risk appetite shifts across Technical Due Diligence and Information Security Risk engagements.
See the walkthroughOne-page TL;DR structure to align founders, investors, and audit chairs on decisions, risks, and next steps—standard kit for Fractional CTO engagements.
Get the briefing templateQuarterly teardowns on cloud spend, SOC2 readiness, and delivery metrics curated for CTOs, COOs, and deal teams—refreshed regularly on Signals.
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When board pressure, investor scrutiny, or regulatory risk is on the line - and the product still isn't shipping - you need answers and execution. My firm exists to take ownership alongside you.
You'll get truth fast and in plain language. In the first 72 hours, the Tech Sanity Check maps what's healthy, what's fragile, and what to do next. For investors, a 5-day Technical Due Diligence surfaces deal-breakers before term sheets are signed. When it's time to act, the Fractional CTO rhythm executes remediation without adding a full-time CTO.
Expect focus, confidentiality, and operator cadence: access list on day one, working sessions over status theatre, and board‑ready artifacts that drive decisions. We don't negotiate with physics or compliance. We call it as it is and then we fix it.
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