What is a fractional CTO?

A senior technology leader who works with you part of the week instead of full time. You get the decisions and the direction without a full-time hire.

What is the difference between an interim and a fractional CTO?

An interim CTO covers the role for a set period, usually while you hire. A fractional role is a continuing part-time arrangement. We offer interim CTO cover and fractional product leadership.

Email help@minithlabs.com with where the company is and what decision is stuck. We reply with how we would approach it.

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Fractional CTO and interim product leadership

You need someone senior to own the technology, and you are not ready to hire one full time, or you are hiring and cannot wait. We step in, make the decisions that are stuck, and leave a plan your team can carry on without us.

When it fits

Between CTOs. Someone has left, or has not been hired yet, and decisions are piling up.
Before the first technical hire. A founder with a product to build and no one to say what to build it with.
AI on the roadmap. The board wants an AI plan and the team needs to know what is real.
A big decision. A rebuild, a platform choice, an acquisition. A second opinion from someone with nothing to sell you but the advice.

What we take on

Technology and product strategy. What to build, what to buy and what to leave alone.
The architecture decisions that are blocking the team.
Delivery. A release rhythm the team can keep, and numbers that show whether it is working.
The board and investors. Technology explained plainly, with the risks named.

Why us

This is one part of our AI consultancy work. Our founder, Syd Lawrence, has more than 20 years of building technology and scaling businesses, and has co-founded and sold two companies: The Bot Platform and AwesomeWall. Their customers included Facebook, GSK, the Singapore Government, UEFA, Wembley and Glastonbury Festival. Syd still builds, on our own products, so the advice comes from current practice, not memory.

Questions

What is a fractional CTO?: A senior technology leader who works with you part of the week instead of full time. You get the decisions and the direction without a full-time hire.
What is the difference between an interim and a fractional CTO?: An interim CTO covers the role for a set period, usually while you hire. A fractional role is a continuing part-time arrangement. We offer interim CTO cover and fractional product leadership.
How do we start?: Email help@minithlabs.com with where the company is and what decision is stuck. We reply with how we would approach it.

Tell us what you are building

Write to help@minithlabs.com with what you are building and where it is stuck. A paragraph is enough. We reply with what we would do first.

Email help@minithlabs.com