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A senior partner, not a junior.

Technology strategy, vendor selection, and hands-on Agile project management — for when you need someone who's been through it before, not someone learning on your project.

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— Overview

Honest advice. Real delivery.

Most advisory work has a problem: the people giving the advice never deliver on it. They write a strategy deck, hand it off, and disappear. Then someone else — usually less senior, often less informed — has to actually make it work.

We do both. The strategy and the build. The technology choice and the integration. The roadmap and the sprints. Because advice without delivery is just opinion, and we'd rather be measured on outcomes than slides.

"The cheapest way to make a bad technology decision is to make it without anyone who'll have to live with the consequences."

Where advisory engagements actually help

  • Technology strategy & roadmaps — when you've got more ideas than budget and need to sequence them properly. We help prioritize based on ROI, dependencies, and risk, then put it on a realistic calendar.
  • Vendor & software selection — when you're choosing between platforms (ERP, CRM, hosting, BI, an AI vendor), and the salespeople all say the same things. We've sat on both sides of these evaluations and can cut through the noise.
  • Project recovery — when a build has gone sideways, the timeline has slipped, and you need someone to get under the hood and figure out what to ship now and what to walk away from.
  • Fractional CTO — when you're past needing a part-time advisor but not yet ready for a full-time technology executive. A few hours a week, accountable to outcomes.
  • Agile project management — running the sprints, the standups, the retros, the stakeholder communication. When your team has the engineers but not the operating cadence.

How we engage

01 · ASSESS

Where are you actually?

One or two weeks of focused listening — stakeholders, technical reviews, system walk-throughs. The deliverable is a clear-eyed assessment of where you are, not where you said you were.

02 · ALIGN

Pick the path forward

A short, written plan with options. Tradeoffs explicit. Costs honest. No fake urgency, no scope inflation. You decide what to do next — or whether to do anything at all.

03 · DELIVER

Or hand off cleanly

If the plan needs hands, we provide them — either ours, or yours with us as the coach. If it doesn't, we hand you something you can actually execute on without us.

Project management, the way it actually works

Agile is a framework, not a religion. We've delivered with Scrum, Kanban, ShapeUp, and good old-fashioned plain-language project plans — whatever fits the team and the stakes. What matters more than the methodology is the discipline: two-week sprints, weekly stakeholder visibility, no surprises at the end.

For larger programs, we coordinate multi-team delivery — making sure the people building it, the people deciding it, and the people paying for it are all aimed at the same outcome.

Engagement models

Advisory engagements typically run as monthly retainers with clearly defined deliverables, or as fixed-scope assessments for one-off questions ("should we replatform?", "is this vendor any good?", "why is this project late?"). For fractional CTO work, it's usually 5–10 hours a week on a monthly basis. We'll recommend the model that fits the question.

Got a question worth a real answer?

Strategic technology decisions are easier when someone who's made them before is in the room. The first conversation is free — even if you end up not hiring us.