CTOmetry

Fractional CTO & Delivery Leadership, When You Can't Justify a Full-Time Hire

Senior technology leadership for mid-market operations and tech teams who need to ship — without the six-figure salary, the recruiter fees, or the twelve-month bet.

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The problem

You're stuck between a scale-up team and an enterprise-grade problem.

The delivery function stopped keeping up months ago. You know it. Your board knows it. Hiring a full-time CTO isn't the answer today.

No senior technical voice in the room

Strategy is decided by people who can't pressure-test the delivery plan or the supplier promises behind it.

Roadmaps slip quarter after quarter

Every board meeting brings the same amber statuses, the same excuses, and the same rolling six-month plan.

Spend is up. Throughput isn't.

Headcount, contractors, tooling — all growing. Shipped outcomes are not. Nobody can explain the gap.

Key-person risk everywhere

One or two engineers hold the whole system in their heads. If they leave, delivery stops.

What we do

Three ways we take the wheel.

Embed

Fractional CTO

A senior operator in your leadership meetings, owning the technology plan, the supplier relationships and the delivery scorecard.

  • 1–3 days a week
  • Board-facing
  • Owns the roadmap
Diagnose

Delivery Diagnostic

A four-week independent read on why delivery is stuck — team, tooling, architecture, suppliers — with a costed plan to fix it.

  • Fixed fee
  • Board-ready findings
  • 90-day plan
Rebuild

Delivery Rebuild

We run the turnaround. Restructure the team, rewrite the plan, ship the first three releases — then hand back a working function.

  • 3–6 month engagement
  • Interim delivery lead
  • Documented handover

How it works

From first call to shipping, in three steps.

01

Diagnostic call

A 45-minute call to understand where delivery stands, what the board is asking, and whether we're the right fit.

02

Two-week read

We meet the team, review the plan, the code, the suppliers and the numbers. You get a written verdict.

03

Embed or rebuild

We take on the CTO seat or run the turnaround. First outcomes visible inside 30 days.

Why CTOmetry

Senior operators who have actually done the job.

Not consultants writing a deck. Practitioners who have run engineering organisations of 20 to 200, shipped critical systems, and answered to a board.

20+
Years in-role
£50m+
Delivery owned
30+
Turnarounds

Board-grade credibility

We speak the language of the CEO, CFO and Chair — and translate the technical reality without softening it.

Independent, always

No reseller kickbacks. No tool preferences dressed up as strategy. Our loyalty is to your outcome.

Outcomes, not decks

You'll know we're working because the roadmap moves — not because another PDF landed in your inbox.

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Fractional CTO & Delivery Leadership, When You Can't Justify a Full-Time Hire

One call. No slide deck. A straight read on whether we can help — and what it would take.

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