The team at Daphnis Labs redefined what’s possible for Urbanface. They delivered a bespoke, animation-heavy website that remains incredibly quick and functional. The…
Technical leadership. Alongside your team.
Set a decision cadence and technical direction without adding a full-time leadership role.
Decisions
Roadmap
Architecture
People
Vendors
Tools & technologies
- Existing application stack
- Cloud architecture
- CI/CD pipelines
- Observability
- Security and dependency tooling
Make the remit explicit.
A starting point for agreeing responsibilities with your existing team.
CTO engagement
- Technical options
- Architecture reviews
- Risk visibility
Your team
- Daily implementation
- Operational ownership
- Product knowledge
Agree together
- Decision authority
- Review cadence
- Escalation coverage
Decisions your team can reference.
Architecture decision records
Technical roadmap
Risk register
Vendor assessment
Hiring scorecards
Leadership review notes
A slow checkout. A decision the team can use.
Read this example
Should we rebuild checkout or fix the bottleneck?
- Inspect the trace. The tax-provider call blocks the confirmation screen. Evidence collected.
- Compare the options. A full rebuild leaves the same dependency. A timeout and recovery path address it directly. Trade-offs recorded.
- A bounded next change. Add the timeout, preserve the order and test a provider outage. Decision ready for team agreement.
A trace becomes a scoped engineering decision with an owner and an acceptance check.
Scripted illustration using sample information, not a client case study or a live system.
- Founded in
- 2013
- Projects delivered
- 550+
- Client countries
- 43+
- Global offices
- 3
FAQs
How is this different from advisory calls?
A fractional CTO engagement defines an ongoing remit, decision cadence and working relationship with your team. The responsibilities go beyond occasional advice when that is part of the agreed scope.
Does the CTO engagement include a development team?
Not automatically. Your engineers may implement the work, or a separate delivery engagement can provide the required capacity. The two responsibilities are scoped explicitly.
How much availability do we get?
Meeting cadence, working sessions, response expectations and escalation channels are agreed in the engagement. There is no implied round-the-clock incident coverage.
Can you help with hiring or vendor selection?
Yes. The remit can include role definition, interview scorecards, technical evaluation and vendor trade-offs. Hiring and commercial decisions remain with the business.
Can you work alongside our technical lead?
Yes. We agree which decisions belong to the lead, which require broader coordination and where additional leadership support is useful.
What happens when we hire a full-time CTO?
The engagement can include a planned transition with decision records, current risks, architecture context and introductions to the team and vendors.
Which decision is waiting on technical leadership?
Bring the roadmap, team structure and the trade-off you need to resolve.
