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.
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.
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
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 — from £1,000
- Board-ready findings
- 90-day plan
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
The platform
CTOmetry Core — the operating system for technology leadership.
Every engagement runs on CTOmetry Core: one governed workspace where organisational knowledge, executive assessments and grounded AI advisory share the same context, permissions and audit trail. Your exec team, your board and your auditors all look at the same evidence.
- Modules
- 6Shipped and production ready
- Frameworks
- 7Maturity and capability diagnostics
- AI providers
- 3OpenAI, Claude and Gemini
- Tenancy
- RLSIsolation enforced in the database
Executive Dashboard
Real-time command centre
Customisable widgets covering organisation health, project status, decisions, risks, open actions, technology debt and AI consumption — live from your workspace.
- Live widgets
- Quick capture
- Per-user layouts
How it works
From first call to shipping, in three steps.
Diagnostic call
A 45-minute call to understand where delivery stands, what the board is asking, and whether we're the right fit.
Two-week read
We meet the team, review the plan, the code, the suppliers and the numbers. You get a written verdict.
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.
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.
Who's behind CTOmetry
Mario De'Cristofano
Founder, CTOmetry — Fractional CTO
I work with organisations as a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO), helping them align technology with business strategy, modernise operations, and build high-performing technology functions without the cost of a full-time executive.
My experience spans technology leadership, digital transformation, and business turnaround programmes. I've stepped into organisations facing operational challenges, inherited underperforming teams and legacy systems, and successfully delivered strategic change that improves efficiency, governance, reporting, and commercial performance. Whether leading technology strategy, implementing data-driven decision making, or rebuilding confidence in IT delivery, I focus on creating sustainable improvements that enable businesses to scale.
I bring a pragmatic, hands-on leadership style, combining executive-level strategic thinking with the ability to work alongside technical teams to deliver measurable results.
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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.