A practical decision guide for founders wondering whether to hire a fractional CTO. The triggers that signal you need one, the situations where you don't, and how to tell the difference.
There is now software that listens to interview questions, generates answers using AI, and displays them invisibly on the candidate's screen. Your screen sharing software cannot detect it. Here is what to do about it.
Gartner reports that only 22% of organisations are getting significant value from AI. After working inside organisations on both sides of that number, the gap is not technical. It is structural, and the evidence is hiding in plain sight.
Analysts have confirmed what many of us suspected. Most organisations are not getting meaningful returns from their AI investments. The reasons are not technical. They are structural, and they are fixable.
What does a fractional CTO actually cost in the UK, and how does it compare to hiring a full-time CTO? A transparent breakdown of salaries, employer on-costs, day rates, and realistic scenarios for seed stage through to growth stage businesses.
A practical guide to GDPR, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 — what each requires technically, how to assess readiness, and the common gaps found during technical due diligence.
AI development productivity is not what the headlines suggest. The METR study found experienced developers were 19% slower with AI, yet believed they were faster. Here is an honest, evidence-based assessment of where AI genuinely accelerates development and where it introduces hidden costs and risk.
Every technical due diligence assessment tells a story. The red flags that matter most are rarely the obvious ones - they are the architectural decisions, testing gaps, and deployment risks that compound silently until they become expensive problems. Here is what I look for after 20 years of assessing codebases.
Technical due diligence evaluates whether the technology behind a product is sound, scalable, and secure before investment. This guide explains what the seven core assessment areas cover, what assessors look for, and how founders can prepare - written for non-technical decision-makers.
Benchmarks don't tell the full story. After running Claude Code and Codex CLI side by side on real production work, the difference that actually matters in agentic workflows isn't capability — it's output style.
Most businesses overspend on technology without realising it. Over-engineered solutions, wrong architecture choices, technical debt, and vendor lock-in quietly compound into significant waste. Here are the patterns I see most often and what you can do about each one.
On-premises hosting costs £327-771/month vs cloud at £37-93/month. Only 3 scenarios justify self-hosting. Here's the full breakdown.
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