Senior technical judgement, without hiring for it.
Someone to sit on your side of the table when the decisions are technical and the money is real. A day or two a month, from a person you can name.
Free 30 minutes. No pitch, no obligation.
You need the technical decisions made well. You don't need a technical director on the payroll for that. The decisions turn up regardless: which platform, which agency, whether a quote is fair, what happens when your only developer leaves.
This is the arrangement for that. A day or two a month with someone senior who has built the kind of thing you're deciding about. They sit on your side of the table, rather than selling you the answer.
The important part is independence. We tell you when the right answer is off the shelf software, a different supplier, or nothing. That advice is worth less to us and more to you, which is the point.
Most people call this a fractional CTO. Same thing: senior technical judgement by the day, without the salary, the equity or the notice period.
This is probably you if
- You're about to spend serious money on software and have nobody in house to sanity check it.
- You're managing developers or an agency without the background to judge the work.
- Something critical was built by one person who has since left.
- You need a technical roadmap for a board, an investor or a funding application.
Sound familiar? We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Tell us what's going on
What that involves
Technical strategy
What to build, what to buy, and what order to do it in. Usually the cheapest hour you'll spend, because it's the one that stops the expensive mistake.
Choosing suppliers
Writing the brief, reading the quotes and telling you which one is padded. We've been on the other side of that document for years.
Reviewing what exists
An honest read on the system you already have. What is sound, what is fragile, what is a genuine risk, and what is fine despite what somebody told you.
Sitting in on the work
Reviewing your developers' output, joining sprint calls, being the person they can raise something with who understands the answer.
Hiring
Writing the job description, sitting in on interviews and setting the technical test. Hiring your first developer badly is expensive for years.
Board and investor material
Turning the technical position into something a non technical room can make a decision from, without dumbing it down to the point of being useless.
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The people who name it and draw it sit with the people who build it. No handover between two suppliers, and no gap in the middle for you to manage.
We'll tell you not to spend
If a tidy-up solves it, we'll say so rather than sell you a rebuild. We'd rather lose the bigger job than take money for something that won't pay back.
You talk to the people building it
Founder-led, so there's no account manager relaying your question to someone you never meet. Decisions get made in the same conversation.
A fixed price before we start
You get the number up front, after a free call. No day rate quietly ticking over and no invoice that surprises you at the end.
You own all of it
Code, designs, hosting, repositories. No proprietary platform you can't leave and no licence that grows every time you hire someone.
Offices you can actually visit
Leicester and Huddersfield. Happy to sit down with you and map the thing out in person, happy to keep it to a call if that's easier.
Questions, answered.
Start a project
Build it.
With us.
Tell us what's holding your business back. We'll work with you to design and build what fixes it.
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