Senior technology and AI leadership for mid-market companies.
We own the roadmap, the vendors, and the results. You get an executive seat filled by an operator who has led regulated engineering teams, and who also ships.
Technology decisions need an owner at the executive table.
Pilots stall before production
Demos work. Then integration, security review and unclear ROI stop the rollout.
Nobody owns the AI agenda
Each department buys its own tools. No one sets priorities, governance or the data plan.
Risk and vendor sprawl grow quietly
Contracts renew on autopilot. Customer security reviews land on a team with no executive owner.
Three executive seats. One accountable leader.
Start with the seat you lack today. Add the others as your needs grow.
Fractional CTO
You get technology strategy and engineering leadership without a full-time executive.
- Architecture and build-versus-buy decisions
- Engineering hiring, structure and delivery cadence
- Technical due diligence for deals and investors
- Roadmap tied to revenue and cost goals
Fractional CIO
You get an owner for systems, security posture, vendors and technology spend.
- Systems, cloud and vendor portfolio review
- Security and compliance readiness with your vCISO or ours
- Customer security questionnaires and audit support
- Contract, license and cost control
AI Enablement
You get one owner who moves AI from scattered pilots to measured production results.
- AI roadmap ranked by value and risk
- Governance, data readiness and policy
- Pilot-to-production delivery with success metrics
- Staff training and adoption support
A fixed-fee start. A retainer only when it earns its place.
Assess
We interview your leaders, review your systems and spend, and test your data. You receive the four deliverables at a fixed fee.
Plan and start
We agree the roadmap with your executive team. We name owners, set metrics, and start the first initiative.
Operate
We lead delivery on a monthly retainer. You see a short report every week. We hand over documented systems you own.
Pick the level of leadership you need.
Every tier includes a named leader, a weekly report and a direct line to the executive team.
- Executive sounding board
- Vendor and architecture reviews
- Board and investor technology briefings
- Best for teams with a strong internal lead
- We own the roadmap and its delivery
- Weekly executive cadence
- Hiring, vendor selection and AI governance
- Hands-on build support when needed
- Interim CTO or CIO with full authority
- Team leadership and day-to-day delivery
- Search and handover to a full-time successor
- Best for transitions, deals and turnarounds
Flat monthly fees with a weekly cap on hours. Start with the fixed-fee assessment. We confirm the right tier in writing before you commit.
An executive who also ships.
Advisory-only firms hand you a slide deck. We stay for the build. We design the system, put it into your tools, test it with your team, and measure the result.
That includes voice agents, workflow automation, internal assistants and data pipelines. Delivery proves the strategy.
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Shawn Mitchell
More than 15 years leading engineering for identity, fintech and trading platforms. As Lead Architect and then VP of Engineering at AuthenticID, he led a 16-person engineering organization and owned delivery of a real-time identity proofing platform used in highly regulated banking environments.
Earlier, he spent more than a decade building real-time trading platforms at Tradition North America, one of the world's largest interdealer brokers. He is based in Raleigh, NC.
Banks must prove who a customer is in real time, under strict regulatory scrutiny. Shawn owned delivery of AID360, a cloud-native decisioning platform, and packaged machine-learning computer-vision models into live production pipelines. Result: a real-time identity proofing solution running in highly regulated banking environments.
Shawn built an AI job-search platform end to end: a matching engine, a Chrome extension, a remote MCP server with 21 tools, and ATS-ready resume generation. It shows how fast we move from an AI idea to a working system.
Learners work inside a virtual 84-person plumbing and HVAC company. They interview staff, map the real process, choose what to automate, build, and measure. Its AI characters hide facts until you ask the right question. It shows how we run discovery with your people.
What a fractional technology executive changes.
Senior judgment from week one
You get an executive who has run production platforms. Decisions on architecture, vendors and AI priorities get made, not deferred.
One owner for technology and AI
One person is accountable for the roadmap, the vendors and the results. Your CEO stops refereeing between teams and tools.
Cost that matches the need
You buy the hours you need now. There is no search fee, no full-time salary, and no long ramp-up.
Answers customers and boards trust
Security questionnaires, audits and board questions get a named executive owner who can answer them.
Questions leaders ask first.
Why fractional instead of a full-time hire?
A full-time CTO, CIO or AI lead costs a large salary plus recruiting time. Many mid-market firms need senior judgment for 10 to 40 hours a month. Fractional gives you that on day one and lets you prove value before you commit.
What is the difference between the CTO, CIO and AI seats?
The CTO owns what you build and how. The CIO owns the systems, security posture and vendors you run. The AI lead owns priorities, governance and delivery of AI across the business. Many clients start with one seat and add a second.
How is it priced?
We start with a fixed-fee assessment. After it, you choose a monthly retainer: Advisor at $8,000, Partner at $16,000 or Embedded at $32,000. Each is a flat monthly fee with a weekly cap on hours, and we confirm the tier in writing before you commit.
How do the hours work?
Each tier sets a monthly hour range. We plan work around a weekly executive cadence and send a short weekly report. Hours do not vanish into meetings. We tie them to the roadmap.
Who builds the systems?
We lead and build the first versions. We then train your team and hand over documented systems you own. When scope grows, we bring in vetted engineers under our direction.
What happens when we outgrow fractional?
We help you define the full-time role, run the search, and hand over cleanly. A good fractional engagement works toward its own end.
Start with the 30-day assessment.
You leave with a roadmap, a risk map and a first pilot plan. You keep every deliverable, whether or not we work together after.