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Part-time technology leader (CTO)

Is AI actually saving you time?

A part-time CTO picks the uses of AI that save your team time, sets clear rules on tools and data, and rolls them out team by team. Then measures what each one saves and stops what does not pay back.

  • The few uses that pay
  • A simple AI policy
  • Savings you can measure
Brief us on your AI use

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

A senior technology executive by a glass partition in a modern Dubai office
400+curated executives in the UAE collective · embedded within weeks of the brief

Our fractional CTOs have built and scaled technology at

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The problem

Sound familiar?

  • Staff paste company data into personal ChatGPT accounts.
  • You pay for AI tools that few people use.
  • Vendors promise automation nobody can evaluate.
  • Nobody can say what AI is saving the business.

The tools are not the problem. Nobody senior owns them. A part-time CTO picks what to use, sets the rules and deals with vendors from your side of the table.

What changes

AI that earns its place

Today

Tools bought, barely used

With a part-time CTO

The few uses that pay

The tasks where AI saves real time in your business, chosen first and rolled out team by team, with training and an owner for each.

Today

Company data in personal accounts

With a part-time CTO

A simple AI policy

Which tools are approved, what data never goes in and who signs off, written with UAE data protection requirements in mind.

Today

Nobody knows what it saves

With a part-time CTO

Savings you can measure

The hours or cost each use saves, tracked, with vendors managed from your side. What pays back stays; what does not stops.

Brief us on your AI use

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How we solve it

A CTO who owns AI, so it pays back

AI stalls when nobody senior owns it. A part-time CTO chooses where it helps, sets the rules and runs the rollout with your team.

  1. First

    Find the uses that pay

    How the team works today, where AI would save real time, and what is already being used.

  2. Then

    Set the rules

    Approved tools, what data never goes in, and who signs off, written with UAE data protection requirements in mind.

  3. Ongoing

    Roll out and measure

    Team by team, with training and an owner for each use, tracking what it saves and stopping what does not.

Senior, and done it before

Leaders from our curated collective of 400+ who have held the role and solved this problem before.

Inside your business, part-time

Half a day to three days a week, working with your team and owning the outcome. Not advice from outside.

No long commitment

Contracted business to business on one month’s notice. No visa, no permanent seat on the payroll, no end-of-service liability.

Built for owner-led UAE businesses with five or more people.

The comparison

A fractional CTO, a full-time hire or a consultant

Three ways to bring in senior help. Only one owns the problem until it is fixed.

RecommendedFractional CTO
Full-time hire
Consultant
What you get
Fractional CTO · RecommendedA senior leader inside the business, owning the problem until it is fixed.
Full-time hireThe same seniority, at a full-time salary whether the work needs it or not.
ConsultantAdvice on one specific question, at a premium day rate.
Who does the work
Fractional CTO · RecommendedThey do, alongside your team.
Full-time hireThey do, once the search and the notice period are over.
ConsultantYou do. The recommendations stay with you to deliver.
Cost
Fractional CTO · RecommendedOur engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a full-time hire.
Full-time hireA senior package, plus visa, insurance and end-of-service liability.
ConsultantPremium day rates, which add up fast for anything ongoing.
Commitment
Fractional CTO · RecommendedBusiness to business, on one month’s notice.
Full-time hireA permanent contract.
ConsultantA fixed scope. More work is a new proposal.
Best when
Fractional CTO · RecommendedYou need the problem owned and fixed.
Full-time hireYou can keep a senior leader busy full time.
ConsultantYou need one specific answer and will pay a premium for it.
Brief us on your AI use

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How it works

From the brief to the match

  1. STEP 1

    Tell us the problem

    A short brief, read personally.

  2. STEP 2

    Meet your shortlist

    Leaders from our collective of 400+ who have solved it before.

  3. STEP 3

    Embedded within weeks

    Business to business, on one month’s notice.

Brief us on your AI use
Your brief

Tell us how AI is used today

A few questions on the business and the problem. Every brief is read personally, and we reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

  1. We read your brief and reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
  2. We come back with leaders from the collective who have solved this before.
  3. No search fee. Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Step 1 of 3About 3 minutes

Where to reach you

So we can come back to you with names, not a form reply.

We reply to this address within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Every brief is read personally. No newsletter, no list.

If you stop before sending, we may keep what you have entered so far so the team can pick your enquiry up with you.

We ask for a number because the fastest briefs are settled in one short call. We will not add you to a list or pass it on.

No search fee.

What an engagement costs, plainly.

  • Priced on time and scope, not on a salary.
  • Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire.
  • Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Questions

Before you brief us

Usually not yet. Most owner-led businesses need someone senior to choose the uses, set the rules and run the rollout, then hand the day to day to the team. A part-time CTO does that, and tells you if and when a full-time hire makes sense.

No. It is leadership: choosing the uses, setting the policy and running the rollout with your team. The CTO chooses and manages any vendors or automation partners on your side of the table, and anything built comes only where it pays back.

The policy sets which tools are approved, what data never goes into them and who approves exceptions, with UAE data protection requirements in mind. It is a working policy for your team, not legal advice; where a question needs a lawyer, the CTO says so.

Within weeks of the brief. Tell us the problem and we come back with leaders from the collective whose experience fits it.

An engagement is priced on time and scope, not on a salary. Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire. There is no search fee.

Most engagements run half a day to three days a week, set to what the problem needs and reviewed as the business changes, contracted business to business with one month's notice either way.

Neither. The leader works inside the business, part-time, owns the outcome with your team and stays on to run it, without a visa, a permanent seat on the payroll or end-of-service liability.

Part-time technology leader (CTO)

AI that earns its place.

Tell us the problem. We come back with leaders who have solved it before.

Brief us on your AI use