Calgary, Alberta · Fractional CTO & Technology Advisory

Your trusted technology advisor.

For startup founders and growing-business owners about to make a five- or six-figure technology decision with no one senior enough in the room to sanity-check the vendor pitching them.

A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive, part-time — strategy, security, and AI readiness, without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.

Book a Free Strategy Call How engagement works

30 minutes. No pitch. Just a straight conversation.

Straight answers from someone who has done the work

50+
Advisory engagements
10+
Happy clients across Alberta & Western Canada

Memberships & Affiliations

An active member of the programs and partnerships shaping cloud, security, and open source — from the Government of Alberta to the platforms enterprises run on.

The Problem

You're making $50K+ technology bets on gut feel.

Nobody senior enough is in the room to sanity-check the vendor pitching you. Your IT contractor knows how to keep the lights on, not how to plan three years out. Big firms sell you complexity. Vendors sell you their product. And a full-time CTO costs $200K–$350K a year — money most startups and small businesses don't have to spend on a hire they only need part-time.

So the decisions get made anyway — on a sales rep's timeline, not yours.

How It Works

What happens after you book the call.

Pricing is discussed on the call, not published here — every engagement is scoped to what you actually need. Ask directly and you'll get a straight number, not a sales process.

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Free 30-min call
No pitch. Just a conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
02
Honest assessment
What's working, what's not, and what you actually need. No jargon, no upsell.
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Clear plan
Specific priorities, realistic timelines, and costs you can actually budget for.
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Get to work
Advisory, forward deployed engineering (I embed and build), or a mix. You decide the engagement model.

Case Study

One engagement, walked through in full.

A scroll-driven before/after of a real technology decision — the assessment, the roadmap, and the outcome. Not a static PDF case study.

Read the Case Study

Status

The interactive case study format is built and live at /case-study/. It currently runs on an illustrative example, clearly labeled as such, until a real client engagement is documented with permission and swapped in.

Why Kevin Evans

Platform engineer turned technology advisor.

My career started in infrastructure — racking servers in data centres, building platforms, and learning how systems actually work at the hardware level. From there I moved into architecting cloud platforms, then applications and AI. I don't just advise on technology — I've built it, across the full stack.

I've been on both sides of the table: the technology leader inside the organization making the decisions, and the trusted advisor helping clients get it right. No vendor agenda — I don't sell licenses or take referral fees.

More about Kevin Evans →

Fit Check

This isn't for everyone.

This is for you if:

You're building your first product and want the architecture right from day one
You need a technical co-founder-level perspective without giving up equity
You're running legacy systems and need a clear modernization roadmap
You want an ongoing advisor, not a one-time report

This is not for you if:

You already have a full-time CTO or VP Engineering making these calls
You want someone to just execute a spec with zero pushback on strategy
You want the lowest bid on the work, not a second opinion on the decision
You want a one-off audit and no ongoing relationship

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