Fractional CTO Services for Founder-Led B2B SaaS

Technology Drift Radar Assessment

The Technology Drift Radar Assessment is a 10-business-day diagnostic of your technology platform and engineering operations, built for founder-led B2B SaaS companies between $1M and $50M ARR. I map your single most important business transaction end to end, from the moment a customer triggers it to the moment it is complete, and interview the people closest to the work across sales, product, engineering, operations, and support. Your team keeps building while the assessment runs.

What it identifies

• Platform Drift: the gap between what your technology platform needs to be and what it has become.
• Operating Drift: the gap between how your engineering organization should run and how it actually runs.

What you receive

• A ranked findings map, ordered by business impact
• A 90-day Maximum Impact Plan with named owners and milestones
• A 12-month modernization roadmap that sequences work in controlled slices instead of a risky full rewrite

Technology Leadership

My fractional CTO services give you experienced technology leadership without the cost of a full-time executive hire. With 20 years of experience leading engineering and product organizations, I specialize in diagnosing two patterns before either one threatens growth: Platform Drift, a technology platform that can no longer keep up with the business, and Operating Drift, an operational system that can’t make and hold decisions fast enough.

From there, you gain strategic insights tailored to your business, ensuring alignment, optimal resource allocation, and effective team management, so you can tackle complex challenges while your technical direction stays clear and focused.

Digital Transformation

I assess your current landscape and build a clear, sequenced roadmap to modernize your operations, not a risky full rewrite the business can’t afford to pause for. That roadmap comes straight out of the Drift Radar Assessment, so every modernization step, from cloud migration to AI tooling adoption, is ranked by business impact.

This lets your teams work smarter, reduces risk and cost, and enhances productivity, while ensuring every technology decision is tied directly to business impact rather than guesswork.

Program Management

With deep expertise in program management across Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid frameworks, I bring structure and clarity to even the most complex initiatives. Whether launching new platforms, integrating systems, or driving cross-functional transformations, engagements are delivered on time, with high quality, and aligned to strategic business goals.

Most clients move from the assessment into an ongoing fractional CTO retainer, where I run a weekly decision forum and delivery review, unblock the highest-priority workstreams, and build a documented operating rhythm your team can carry forward independently. My hands-on leadership keeps teams focused, stakeholders informed, and outcomes measurable, so you can move forward with confidence.

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