CTO as a Service

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.

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CTO as a Service

You need the technical decisions made well. You do not need a technical director on the payroll to get that. Most businesses spending real money on software sit somewhere between the two. The decisions turn up regardless: which platform, which agency, whether a quote is reasonable, what happens now the developer who built everything has left.

This is the arrangement for that. A day or two a month with someone senior who has built and shipped the kind of thing you are deciding about, sitting on your side of the table rather than selling you the answer.

The important part is independence. We will tell you when the right answer is a piece of off the shelf software, a different supplier, or nothing at all. That advice is worth less to us and more to you, which is rather the point of paying for it.

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Senior technical judgement, without hiring for it.

This is probably you if

  • You are about to spend serious money on software and have nobody in house to sanity check it.
  • You are 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 will spend, because it is the one that stops the expensive mistake.

Choosing suppliers

Writing the brief, reading the quotes and telling you which one is padded. We have 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.

“Highly recommended 628, we had great support on developing a fresh/modern new website. We've already had some big client wins since the site launched.”
Dr Benjamin Moore Principal Scientist at Excellerate Bioscience
Who you'll be working with

Meet the people who'll actually do the work.

No account managers relaying messages. You talk to the people building the thing.

Ready to get started?

Let's talk

The Studio

Charlotte Daw, Design & UX Director at 628 Studio

Charlotte Daw

Design & UX Director

Ollie Beckwith, Full Stack Developer at 628 Studio

Ollie Beckwith

Full Stack Developer

Daniel Reilly, Full Stack Developer at 628 Studio

Daniel Reilly

Full Stack Developer

Roger Smith, Growth Specialist at 628 Studio

Roger Smith

Growth Specialist

Why people choose us

Why people choose us.

Plenty of studios can build you a website. Here's what tends to make the difference.

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.

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.

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.

We stay after launch

We watch how it performs, fix what surfaces and keep improving it. We don't hand over and disappear the week after you go live.

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.

Tell us what's holding your business back.

Luke Jagger

Co-Founder & Lead Designer

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