Fractional CTO Insights

What fractional CTO leadership looks like in practice. When to engage one, what they deliver, and how part-time technology leadership drives full-time business results.

The real cost of a fractional CTO vs hiring full-time

The real cost of a fractional CTO vs hiring full-time

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.

When AI helps and when it hinders your development team

When AI helps and when it hinders your development team

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.

The question "build vs buy" is becoming obsolete

For decades, businesses have agonised over whether to build custom software or buy an off-the-shelf product. That decision is becoming irrelevant. Here is why the distinction is collapsing, and what it means for how you commission technology going forward.

SaaS is about to lose its moat

The software-as-a-service model has dominated enterprise technology for twenty years. It will not collapse. But the structural advantage it has always relied on is quietly being eroded, and most valuations have not caught up with that reality.

Why AI will hit senior developers harder than junior ones

The consensus view is that AI will eliminate junior developer roles first, while senior developers remain indispensable. I think that analysis is backwards. Here is why the pressure lands hardest on the expensive end of the salary curve.

The consumer spending risk that AI is quietly building

Most commentary on AI and financial markets focuses on the productivity upside. Corporate earnings, margin expansion, efficiency gains. That story is probably right in the short term. But it is only half the picture, and the second half does not look as clean.

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