Your Big IT partners have a conflict of interest. Automation cannibalizes their headcount model. They'll slow-walk your transformation while billing for the delay.
Legacy partners can't recommend eliminating roles they profit from.
Consultancies deliver decks, then disappear. Plans collect dust.
CIOs freeze on failure stats. Teams resist change. Nobody owns the cross-cutting work.
14 questions, 5 minutes. Get your digital maturity score across 12 dimensions. Free, no sign-up.
Expert interviews, architecture review, gap analysis, and a board-ready roadmap. Fixed fee, 2-3 weeks.
A senior technologist embedded in your org. Not just advice — execution. Kill redundant tools, ship quick wins, navigate stakeholders.
Three founders with complementary expertise — enterprise IT, business building, and AI engineering.
Decades of experience leading IT transformations at scale. Has managed the exact vendor ecosystems, partner dynamics, and organizational politics that FraCTO helps clients navigate. Knows what good looks like — and what realistic looks like.
Track record of building and scaling businesses. Brings commercial acumen, market positioning, and the ability to turn a capability into a business. Ensures FraCTO doesn't just advise — it delivers.
Functional and technical knowledge with AI-first thinking. Builds the assessment platform, designs the AI skills, and ensures every recommendation is technically sound and implementable.
| FraCTO | MBB / Big 4 | Big IT | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Senior embedded orchestrator | Junior analysts | Offshore teams |
| Stays to execute | Yes — ongoing retainer | No — delivers deck, leaves | Sort of — bills forever |
| Vendor bias | Independent | Often sponsored | Sells own stack |
| AI augmented | Yes — AI-powered toolkit | Manual | Tooling varies |
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