Part-time technology leader (CTO)

Got what you paid for in tech?

A part-time CTO reviews what your vendor built, tells you what to approve, defer or challenge, and plans the next phase or the move in-house.

  • An independent review
  • A roadmap for the next phase
  • An in-house plan
Brief us on your tech

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?

  • The only view on quality is the vendor's own.
  • You approve invoices for work you cannot judge.
  • Deadlines move, and the explanation is technical.
  • There is no plan beyond the next invoice.

You do not need to become technical. You need someone senior on your side of the table: a part-time CTO who reviews the work and tells you what to approve, defer or challenge.

What changes

Know what your tech spend bought

Today

Only the vendor's word on quality

With a part-time CTO

An independent review

Your vendor's work reviewed by someone on your side of the table.

Today

Approving work you cannot judge

With a part-time CTO

A roadmap for the next phase

What to approve, defer or challenge, and what comes next.

Today

No plan beyond the next invoice

With a part-time CTO

An in-house plan

If the work should move in-house, the plan and the hires to do it.

Brief us on your tech

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

How we solve it

A CTO on your side of the table, reviewing what you paid for

Without technical leadership you approve what the vendor tells you. A part-time CTO reviews the work independently and tells you what it is worth.

  1. First

    Review the work

    Code, architecture and delivery reviewed against what you were promised.

  2. Then

    Decide what to approve

    What to approve, defer or challenge, with the reasons in plain language.

  3. Next

    Plan the next phase

    A roadmap for the vendor, or the plan and the hires to bring the work in-house.

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 tech

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.

Your brief

Tell us what you are unsure of

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

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)

Know what your tech spend bought.

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

Brief us on your tech