Fractional CTO Case Study
A typical engagement, walked through in full.
A composite of a 90-day fractional CTO engagement, drawn from the patterns we see across real client work: what gets found in the assessment, what changes, and what it actually costs the business to fix.
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01 — The Situation
A growing team, an unowned technology stack.
A 25-person company had grown past the point where its founder could keep making every technology call personally, but wasn't big enough to justify a full-time CTO. Cloud spend had crept up with no one accountable for it. Vendor contracts renewed automatically. A security review from a prior contractor had nine open findings, unaddressed for over a year.
02 — The Assessment
Thirty days to find out what was actually going on.
- Full inventory of cloud resources, licenses, and vendor contracts
- Security posture review against the prior findings
- Interviews with the team doing the day-to-day work
- A prioritized list — not a 40-page report nobody reads
03 — The Outcome
Ninety days later.
BeforeAfter
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cloud spend | 18K | 11K |
| Vendor contracts under active management | 14 | 6 |
| Critical security findings open | 9 | 1 |
| Hours/week spent on ad-hoc IT firefighting | 12h | 3h |
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