CTO / CIO as a Service — senior technology leadership embedded in your business, setting the strategy, leading the delivery, and owning the outcomes, without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive.
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Your business has outgrown how it handles technology
You’ve built something real. Now technology needs to keep pace with where you’re going — not just where you’ve been. This is the point where growing businesses bring in a fractional CTO.
A fractional CTO earns their keep in decisions that never have to be made twice. These are the four places it lands.
Architecture calls made badly get expensive years later. Senior judgement up front is the cheapest insurance available.
Contracts, scope, and delivery pressure-tested by someone who has sat on both sides of them.
Costed, sequenced, and argued in commercial terms rather than technical preference.
Priorities set weekly and blockers cleared, so the team knows what it is building and why.
Those problems aren’t hypothetical to us — here’s what our fractional CTO services have delivered for real businesses across Australia.
From strategy to shipped product — we built TOIPA from scratch, a paid program that runs itself and generates the revenue that sustains Link Foundation’s free core services.
Spotting the opportunity, picking the technology, owning the build — an AI consultant for a major Australian flooring retailer that turns visitors into booked quotes, 24/7.
A part-time CTO for your business: technology strategy, vendor management, team leadership, and board-level reporting.
Comprehensive review of your current technology stack, processes, and team capabilities.
Prioritised technology roadmaps aligned to your business strategy and budget.
Independent vendor evaluation and selection based on your requirements, not commissions.
Hands-on leadership to implement the strategy — managing vendors, teams, and timelines.
That’s what the first conversation is for. Bring the situation — we’ll bring the options, the trade-offs, and a clear recommendation.
Talk it through with a CTO
Who your leadership team deals with — accountable from first conversation to go-live.
Owns the build decisions — systems that hold up in production and run 24/7.
Your single point of contact while we build — owns scope, timelines, and comms.
Maps your processes and finds the automations worth building — before anything gets built.
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Since going live we’ve cut admin time by over 60%, reduced stock issues, sped up reporting, and improved guest response times. It paid for itself quicker than expected.
Their ability to translate complex AI concepts into clear, actionable strategies tailored to each client’s needs is exceptional. Their consulting approach is both strategic and hands-on.
They took the time to understand how we operate, pinpointed areas that needed tightening up, and implemented practical solutions that have genuinely improved our turnaround times and overall clarity.
Automation Consulting has been excellent to work with. Their team demonstrates strong expertise, clear communication, and a commitment to delivering value. Highly recommended!
A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive who works with your business part-time — owning technology strategy, architecture decisions, vendor relationships, and board reporting — without the salary and commitment of a full-time hire. You get CTO-level judgement for the hours you actually need.
It means we step in as your technology leader. We own the strategy, the roadmap, the vendor relationships, and the delivery. You get all the strategic thinking and execution of a CTO — backed by our full engineering team — without the cost of a permanent hire.
Consultants advise. We deliver. We don’t hand you a PDF and walk away. We stay embedded, accountable, and we build what we recommend — with our own engineering team.
Fractional CTO services cover everything a full-time CTO would own — technology strategy, roadmaps, vendor selection, team leadership, and delivery oversight — delivered as a flexible engagement that scales with your business. Ours goes a step further: our own engineering team builds what we recommend.
Most CTO-as-a-Service engagements start with a 3-month sprint to establish strategy and deliver quick wins. From there, most clients keep us on retainer because the value compounds — but there’s no lock-in.
Nothing. The first conversation is always free. We’ll map your situation, show you what’s possible, and give you a clear scope before you commit to anything.