AI Consulting / Fractional CTO
A fractional CTO engagement gives you experienced technical leadership at the moments that matter — architecture decisions, hiring, fundraising, and strategic pivots.
Engagement
What this covers.
Technical Strategy
Owning the AI roadmap. Translating business goals into architectural decisions and making the build-vs-buy calls that determine whether your AI investments compound or accumulate debt.
Architecture & Stack
Selecting the right models, infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks for your specific context — not what is fashionable, but what will hold up under real-world load and scrutiny.
Team & Hiring
Helping you hire the right AI engineers and structure a team that can execute. Including defining roles, running technical interviews, and establishing engineering practices from the start.
Stakeholder Communication
Translating technical complexity into clear decisions for boards, investors, and executive teams. Ensuring the organisation understands what AI can and cannot do, and why.
How it works
Embedded leadership, not overhead.
Most early-stage AI companies do not need a full-time CTO yet — but they do need someone who can make the critical technical decisions that will shape everything that follows.
A fractional CTO engagement gives you a senior technical leader embedded in your team on a part-time or advisory basis. The arrangement scales with your needs: from a few days a month during early architecture, to more intensive involvement during a hiring push or fundraise.
I have held CTO and advisory roles across startups in health-tech, AI infrastructure, and enterprise software. I bring the perspective of someone who has made these decisions before — and lived with the consequences.
Common questions I help answer: when should we move off the foundation model API and fine-tune, how do we evaluate whether our AI is actually working, and what does a defensible AI architecture look like to a technical investor.
Work together
Ready to talk about technical leadership?
Whether you are pre-seed and need someone to sanity-check your architecture, or Series B and building out an AI team — I can help. Let's start with a conversation.