01 · Fractional exec
Fractional exec
Fractional CTO, CMO, or head of growth, embedded in your leadership rhythm.
Practice · 04
Advisory.
Operator-grade counsel, on retainer.
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Practice · 04 · What's inside
The capabilities, at a glance.
Twelve core capabilities — every Advisory engagement draws from the set below, assembled around the brief in the room.
Platform engineering
Data + ledgers
Cloud architecture
Security · compliance
Analytics
AI agents
Automation
System design
Performance
Observability
Integrations
Infrastructure
What we build
Operator-grade counsel, on retainer.
Not every problem wants a delivery team. Sometimes the blocker is a call that needs to be made by someone who has made it before. Our advisory retainers give leadership teams a fractional operator — someone who has built, scaled, or sold what you're trying to build.
02 · Architecture reviews
Architecture reviews
Independent audits of roadmaps, vendor choices, and tech-debt decisions.
03 · Board readouts
Board readouts
Quarterly narrative and numbers your board can actually use.
04 · Hiring loops
Hiring loops
Senior hires — CTOs, VP Engs, Heads of Growth — sourced, interviewed, and onboarded.
How we work
Four-beat cadence. No theatre.
Every engagement runs on the same rhythm — diagnosis, design, build, scale — adapted to the practice and the brief in the room.
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Alignment
Week one, we map your strategy, your bottlenecks, and the three decisions that matter most.
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Cadence
Weekly leadership session, monthly deep dive, quarterly board readout.
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In-the-room
On the line for the decisions that count — vendor picks, hires, pivots, cuts.
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Hand-off
We design ourselves out of the role. The goal is a full-time hire you actually want.
→Outcomes — anonymised
The receipts, abridged.
Full references — with names, numbers, and operators on the phone — on request after a first call.
- 01Series-B SaaS — CTO seat held for six months, full-time replacement hired on our loop.—
- 02Family office digital transformation — advisory on a $14M rebuild program.—
- 03Regional bank — architecture review that killed a $9M vendor contract.—
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Advisory · FAQ
Questions we hear most, answered once.
If the answer isn't here, it lives in the first call. Every enquiry lands with a principal, not an inbox.
Who engages with advisory?+
Founders, CEOs, and boards with a specific decision or a vacant seat. Typical engagements are three to six months.
Is this consulting in disguise?+
No. We're operators — we build, ship, and sit on the line for the outcome. Decks are a byproduct, not the deliverable.
Minimum engagement?+
Three months. Anything shorter is a call, not a retainer.
Adjacent practices
Keep looking — the practices compound.
Most engagements pair two or more practices. Here's what else is on offer.
Advisory · intake
Let's scope your Advisory engagement.
A principal replies within 24 hours with a strategy call booked and a first-pass scope drafted before the week closes.