Fractional CTO · Strategy + Build

Bring me the important problem nobody owns.

Too big for a freelancer, too specific for an agency, too technical to hand off internally. I scope it, build it, and ship it — usually in weeks, not quarters.

I grew and sold my own SaaS, and led delivery at E.ON, Experian and the NHS. A small number of finite engagements — not an on-call maintenance service.

Trusted with complex problems by

How I work

One meeting to understand it. Then it gets built and shipped.

We scope the problem in a conversation, I build, we review progress, and we repeat short cycles until it's live and doing useful work. You see working software early — not status decks and invoices for time.

Understand

A focused conversation about the problem, the constraints, and what "solved" actually looks like. Honest assessment of feasibility on the call.

Build

I do the work myself — architecture, code, the lot. Fixed scope, clear price, no hourly billing and no scope drift.

Ship & review

Working software in front of you early, refined in short cycles until it's live and useful. Then I hand it over clean.

What I'm brought in for

Three ways to work together

Fractional CTO & AI Strategy

Your on-demand senior technical owner. I set the technology and AI strategy, make the architecture calls, lead your engineers, and stay accountable for what ships — boardroom in the morning, pull request in the afternoon.

£900/day · retainers from £4,000/month

Software & AI Product Development

From half-defined idea to shipped product. I lead design, architecture and delivery end-to-end — new builds, or rescuing and accelerating something that's stuck. AI built in properly where it earns its place.

Fixed-price projects from £10,000

AI & Tech Workshops

Hands-on sessions that give your team real, applied AI and digital skills — working with the tools, not slides about them. Delivered to councils, corporates and agencies across the UK.

From £1,195/day

Selected work

Problems owned, built, and shipped

Built & sold LoyalFree \
Founded, built and sold a place-promotion SaaS — 100k+ app users across 70+ towns.](/content/work/loyalfree/index.html)

Fractional CTO Global LT \
Architecture and delivery of an AI-powered corporate language-learning platform.](/content/work/globallt/index.html)

Product McDonald's Staff App \
Time-tracking mobile app for a franchise operation.](/content/work/mcdonalds/index.html)

In their words

What clients say

"He understood my challenge really quickly and came up with a solution that's enhanced our software. It's enabled us to grow an additional service — the value is brilliant."

Alex — Founder, Tale Production

"Outstanding support and exceptional results. Attentive and responsive throughout, and the end product exceeded expectations."

Nadeem — Hubb Nottingham

"A pleasure to work with. He clearly engaged everyone, and we'll be booking him again. We'd 100% recommend."

Ben Ryder — Rushcliffe Borough Council

Why a fractional CTO, not an agency

No account managers. No junior devs. No markup.

Agencies put layers between you and the work. I sit inside your team, make the decisions, and write the code — in the same week. You get senior judgement at a fraction of a full-time hire, with none of the agency overhead.

Got a problem that's been sitting on the someday list?

Send me a message with the context. No pitch — just an honest read on whether I’m the right person for it.