Fractional CTOs and CISOs
Board-level technology and security leadership, one to three days a week. The judgement of a seasoned executive, from the month you need it, without the full-time cost.
Most organisations hit executive-level problems long before they can justify an executive-level salary. Customer security questionnaires blocking deals. A certification deadline with nobody driving it. A board asking who owns cyber risk. An engineering team that has outgrown its leadership. A fractional leader closes that gap: real seniority, a defined number of days, and outcomes you can hold them to.
Two roles, one idea: senior ownership, part-time
A fractional leader is not an advisor who leaves a slide deck behind. They take ownership of the function for the days they are in, and they are accountable for what moves.
Fractional CISO
Security leadership the board can rely on
- Security strategy owned at board level, with risk reported in language the board can act on
- Compliance roadmaps driven to the finish line: ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2
- NIS2, DORA and sector rules translated into a plan, not a shelf of policies
- Incident readiness that has been rehearsed, and calm leadership if the day comes
- Third party and supply chain risk brought under control, supplier by supplier
- Customer security questionnaires and insurer assurance handled credibly, so deals stop stalling
- A security culture your people actually follow
Fractional CTO
Technology direction that survives contact with reality
- A technology strategy the board can understand and invest behind
- Architecture and build versus buy decisions made once, properly
- Engineering leadership: structure, standards and a hiring bar that holds
- AI adoption grounded in what actually works, not the hype cycle
- Technical due diligence for funding rounds, acquisitions and exits
- Platforms that scale, and cloud costs that stop climbing
- Delivery that ships, with the reporting to prove it
All of the seniority, a fraction of the cost
Seniority from day one
Leaders who have already carried the title, faced the board and handled the incident. No learning curve on your payroll.
A fraction of the cost
Executive-level outcomes for one to three days a week, without the total cost of a full-time executive package.
Working in weeks, not months
A full-time executive search runs six months or more. A fractional leader from our network is typically in the building within weeks.
Flexes with the pressure
Scale the days up through an audit, an incident or a funding round, and back down when things are steady.
An independent voice
No empire to build and no headcount to defend. The board gets the unvarnished truth about risk and technology.
A path to permanent
If the part-time need grows into a full-time one, we help you make the permanent hire, sometimes the same person.
Three commercial models, your choice
Fractional leadership plugs into the same commercial routes as the rest of our work. Pick the one that fits how your organisation buys, and switch between them as the need changes.
Day rate
Simple and flexible
An agreed day rate for the days you use. Start within weeks, scale up through an audit or an incident, scale back when the pressure eases. No long commitment while you prove the value.
Retained
Continuity at a predictable cost
A fixed monthly retainer for a set number of days. Your leader holds the function month after month: board reporting, supplier reviews, the compliance calendar. Priority access when something urgent lands, and one predictable line on the budget.
Statement of Works
A defined outcome, fixed price
When the need is a destination rather than a function: get us to ISO 27001, stand up the security function, deliver the technology roadmap. Scoped, priced fixed and delivered against milestones, the same way we run all our Statement of Works engagements.
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The signals are usually already there
If any of these sound familiar, the question is not whether you need senior ownership. It is whether you need it five days a week, and usually you do not.
- An enterprise deal is stuck on a security questionnaire nobody can answer
- A certification deadline is approaching: ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, SOC 2
- The board or your investors are asking who actually owns cyber risk
- Your insurer or a regulator wants named senior ownership of security
- Engineering has grown past what the founders can lead day to day
- There is an AI ambition on the roadmap and nobody senior to own it
- You have just been through an incident and never want to feel that unprepared again
We know the individuals, not just the market
Cyber Security and Technology leadership is where we live. The fractional CISOs and CTOs we introduce come from the same network we work with every day: leaders we know personally, whose work we have seen, and who have operated in your kind of environment before, from scale-ups to the public sector.
We match on context, not just title: your sector, your size, your board, your regulatory picture. Engagements typically run one to three days a week against defined outcomes, flex when the pressure changes, and can convert to a permanent leadership hire when the time is right.
Start the conversation
Tell us what is on your plate: the deal, the deadline, the board question, the growth plan. We will tell you honestly whether a fractional leader is the right answer, and introduce the right one if so.
