Your technology should accelerate growth and protect margins. When it doesn’t, there’s a structured way to fix that—without betting the business on a rewrite or a six-month executive search.
What Keeps You Up at Night?
- Commitments to customers or the board keep slipping—competitors are shipping faster.
- Market opportunities are expiring while the team is stuck on internal problems.
- The “rewrite” conversation keeps growing—open-ended, high-risk, no clear endpoint.
- Technology is dragging on margins, but nobody can quantify the cost.
- Engineering salaries are going toward fighting fires instead of building value.
- The numbers that drive revenue—activation, retention, conversion—are fuzzy or debated.
- Infrastructure costs are scaling faster than revenue—the opposite of what should happen.
- Work gets stuck in invisible handoff bottlenecks between teams.
If several of these land, your technology is likely leaking revenue, margin, and competitive position.
The First 90 Days
Clarity
A clear picture of where technology is putting the business at risk — quantified in business terms, not jargon. First high-impact fixes already underway. You know exactly what you’re dealing with.
Direction
A prioritized roadmap organized around protecting the business, removing growth bottlenecks, and building for scale. Phased evolution replaces open-ended rewrite speculation. A plan you can present to the board with confidence.
Results
Measurable improvement in delivery predictability. Technology costs trending toward controlled. A board-ready narrative on technology health and direction. The team is executing with clearer priorities — and the system sustains without heroics.
Why Not Hire Full-Time First?
- Weeks to clarity vs months of executive search.
- Pay for strategic leverage; your team executes.
- De-risks the eventual full-time hire—produces a grounded spec, not a wish list.
Signs It’s Working
- Roadmap commitments to customers and the board are met more consistently.
- Technology costs are predictable and trending toward efficient.
- Open-ended rewrite talk is replaced by a funded, phased path with clear milestones.
- Board and investor conversations about technology are confident, not defensive.
- The team is executing on priorities—fewer fire drills, less churn on direction.
First Step
25 minutes. We’ll talk about where technology is helping or hurting growth, whether a fractional engagement makes sense, and what the first 30 days would look like. No commitment.