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Fractional CTO working with a leadership team

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Fractional CTO

An experienced technology leader in a real seat at your table: two days a month, from £1,850 a month.

The gap at the top

Technology decisions are starting to feel bigger than the team around them, and the alternative is a six-figure hire you can’t risk getting wrong.

  • An ageing system everyone relies on but nobody wants to touch
  • Developers and suppliers are busy, but the results never quite land
  • Big technology decisions are looming and there is no impartial expert to ask
  • No one owns technology direction, so it drifts

What two days a month gets you

The direction, owned

Technology strategy, roadmap and budget sequencing: owned, not presented. Honest answers about what is solid and what is holding you back.

Decisions in plain English

What to fix, replace or leave alone, sequenced around your budget and explained in the language of your P&L, not a technology pitch.

Suppliers and delivery, overseen

Supplier management, design reviews and delivery oversight: someone on your side of the table who has bought and built technology for years.

The player-coach difference

Most fractional CTOs are pure technologists. This role is held by someone who has run businesses (operations, sales, P&L) and change is done with your team, not around them.

Your team gets built while the job gets done

Coaching is part of the role, not a separate service, developing the people who will own technology when we step back.

The goal is to become less necessary

The honest fear about fractional anything is dependency. Our answer is structural: building your capability is the job from day one.

The shape, and the maths

A full-time senior hire

  • Six-figure salary, plus package
  • Recruitment cost and risk
  • Notice periods if it goes wrong

This role

  • Two days a month, from £1,850 a month
  • Senior from day one, no ramp-up
  • Scale up or down; stop any month
  • Capability transferred to your team as you go

Where this has worked

Current and recent roles, and what the player-coach model looks like in practice.

International trading business

Fractional CTO

Technology direction for a growing global operation, including taking Salesforce from decision to go-live.

Software company

Fractional CTO

The CTO role: owning architecture, modernisation and the route from prototype to production.

Need more than technology? Fractional leadership →

Case studies

The proof, written up in full: what the role took on, and what changed.

One thing we say out loud

We also run a software build business. A CTO who owns a dev shop has an obvious incentive problem, so we name it, openly, on day one. You are always free to build elsewhere, and the recommendation stands either way. Most clients tell us the transparency is exactly why they trust the advice.

Client feedback

Divisor has helped us develop our IT Strategy which has identified opportunities for us to make a real difference across Scotland. They have developed a deep understanding of our role in the Skills and Qualifications landscape, and have become a valued resource for the organisation.
SCQF logoMarissa LippiattHead of Development - SCQFP
Divisor worked with us to review our digital operations, and set out a digital strategy on which to develop the business. This has put us ahead of our competitors and has supported the business growth.
Route To Market logoGavin SutherlandManaging Director - Route To Market
Divisor have been instrumental in helping us develop a way forward with our Salesforce solution.
Impact Arts logoFiona DoringChief Executive Officer - Impact Arts

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