Fractional CTPO
Technical, product
and operational
leadership.
I work with SaaS businesses between £1m and £20m - often at an inflection point: post-acquisition, pre-funding, or growing faster than the team can handle.
I've co-founded, scaled, been acquired (twice), faced failure (and turned it round), and worn pretty much every hat in the business. I'd like to help you and your team with the same challenges.
Is this for you?
01
You're scaling, but it no longer feels like you're in the driving seat. Product and engineering have become a black box, and there is no coherence with marketing, sales or customer success. Things feel slow, despite all the hype of AI tools. Developers seem distant. And nobody can quite explain why.
02
One of your key team members just left - or you've simply hit the point where you can't keep all the plates spinning yourself. You need someone to hold or define the function properly while you find a full-time co-pilot.
03
You're being acquired - or you just have been. Suddenly there's a parent company with demands: a security posture, an integration roadmap, restructuring, compliance gaps to close, and a team that needs steadying. You need someone who's been through it and knows what to prioritise first.
What I do
Rebuilding around AI
Embedding AI into how your product and engineering teams actually work - not as a feature, but as the operating model. Workflows, tooling, delivery cadence. And yes, I still ship code. Cursor and Claude are part of my daily toolkit.
Making the business function
Implementing the structure, accountability and operating rhythm - EOS/Traction and org design - that lets a scaling business work as one.
Getting unstuck
Stalled delivery. Misaligned teams. Confusion of priorities when in start-up or scale-up mode. Your organisation is more at risk of failure due to indigestion than starvation.
How we work together
Advisory
Light-touch
A few hours a month
You make better decisions faster.
A sounding board for your CTO or senior team. Pattern recognition on specific decisions - without a full commitment on either side.
Fractional
Embedded
1–2 days a week
Your technology, product and ops work as one.
In your leadership meetings, owning outcomes, making decisions. The model most scaling businesses actually need.
Interim
Fixed-term
Higher intensity
The function is covered. You hire right, not fast.
Post-acquisition or leadership gap. I'll cover the function fully and hand over cleanly - including helping define and recruit the permanent role.
Get in touch.
I don't have a pitch deck, so let's start with a chat. Where are you at, and what are you trying to solve?
I work with a small number of clients at any one time. Currently booking from August 2026.