Free tools
The tools we use, yours to run.
Working versions of the workbooks, registers and templates we run with clients. CTO-grade, formula-driven, and free — no email wall. Two of the tiles are our interactive tools; the rest are one-page PDFs designed to drop straight into your board pack.
See it at a glance
Board and exec visibility on delivery, spend and AI.
CTO Board Pack — Template
One page a month: delivery RAG, risk register deltas, spend, AI adoption. The update a board actually reads.
Engineering Delivery Scoreboard
Lead time, deploys, change-fail rate, MTTR, WIP, on-call load — traffic-lit against honest targets.
IT & SaaS Spend Dashboard
Spend by category, per-employee benchmarks, top vendors and a rolling renewal calendar.
AI Maturity Assessment
6–8 minutes, 30 statements, six dimensions. An evidence-based read on where your AI programme actually stands.
Run the function
The day-to-day CTO discipline: roadmap, cost, vendors, risk, AI registers.
Technology Roadmap — Template
A rolling 12-month roadmap the board can read in two minutes. Named initiatives, owners, expected value.
5-Year IT TCO Planner
Phase-based IT roadmap and cost model with UK rate ranges. Export a board-ready PDF and CSV.
SaaS & Vendor Rationalisation
Inventory, overlap matrix, utilisation, consolidation shortlist — priced in £ before the next renewal cycle.
Tech, AI & Cyber Risk Register
Pre-populated categories, treatment plans, owners, review cadence — the single register a board can use.
AI Use-Case Register
Every AI use case scoped, owned, risk-rated and reviewed. The register your auditor will ask for.
Approved AI Tools Register
The published list of sanctioned tools and their boundaries. Kills shadow AI without killing momentum.
Make the call
Decision aids for the moments that set the next three years of cost.
Build vs Buy vs Fractional — CTO
3-year fully-loaded cost of a full-time CTO, a fractional CTO and letting the MSP fill the gap. Break-even in one table.
Cloud Migration Business Case
As-is run cost, to-be run cost, migration cost, payback. The paper the CFO signs.
Cyber Insurance Readiness Checklist
The controls a broker will ask about at renewal — identity, endpoint, backup, governance.
RFP Scorecard — Template
Weighted criteria, evidence column, blind scoring. Stops the loudest bidder winning by default.
Governance & assurance
What the board, the auditor and the broker want to see — before they ask.
AI Governance Policy — Starter
A six-page starter policy mapped to EU AI Act principles and ICO guidance. Adapt, don't adopt verbatim.
Supplier Assurance Questionnaire
The annual questions your MSP and material SaaS vendors should answer — with evidence, not adjectives.
Incident Post-Mortem — Template
Blameless, evidenced and useful. What happened, why, what we learn, what we change.
Every workbook follows the same convention: yellow cells are inputs, everything else is context. When a tool surfaces something worth acting on, book a Diagnostic Call.