90-day CTO Decision Support

A trusted perspective on your next technology decision.

After your review, work with James to assess platform proposals, senior hires, vendor choices and customer commitments. Your team executes the plan, supported by clear advice and constructive challenge.

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Is this right for you?

Keep the important decisions moving.

Your team can take the review’s plan forward independently. This optional engagement normally follows an initial review, once your priorities are clear and continued advice would help you make progress. Scope and fees are agreed separately.

You’re putting the recommendations from a review into practice.
You want an experienced sounding board for significant decisions.
Leadership needs a reliable view of progress and emerging risk.
Your team will own delivery, supported by clear priorities and constructive challenge.

What you receive

Experienced advice for consequential decisions.

Practical advice, grounded in your business and clear enough to act on.

A senior technology hire

Challenge the role brief and the capabilities the business needs, so the hiring decision follows the priorities established in the review.

A platform investment

Examine a rewrite or replatform proposal: what it resolves, the alternatives, dependencies and evidence needed before committing.

A vendor choice

Assess technical fit, integration dependencies and material risks. Your team retains procurement ownership and supplier selection.

An enterprise commitment

Work through the technology implications of a major customer requirement and the priorities that need to change before you commit.

Progress against the plan

Use a monthly decision memo and technology scorecard to keep choices, emerging risks and priorities visible.

Support between decisions

Fortnightly leadership calls and asynchronous advice within agreed limits provide a regular opportunity to examine the decisions as they arise.

The approach

Ninety days of focused support.

Set the priorities

Build on the initial review to agree the decisions, outcomes and measures for the next 90 days.

Keep a useful rhythm

Alternate leadership discussions with focused reviews. Refresh the decision memo, scorecard and priorities each month.

Build towards handover

Help your leadership and team carry the decisions forward independently, with a clear review of what comes next.

A clear scope from the start

The retainer is £7,500–£8,500 per month + VAT with a three-month minimum. Work is remote-first; occasional leadership workshops are priced separately. The engagement provides advice and decision support. Day-to-day management, hands-on implementation, procurement ownership and incident response remain with your team. Availability is normally limited to two retained advisory clients at a time.

Let’s build what’s next

A clearer way
forward starts
with a conversation.

Tell me about your business, what’s on your mind and where you’d like to get to.