Napoleon played it. Benjamin Franklin studied it. No one could explain how a machine could think so brilliantly. The secret? A grandmaster analysing, weighing, deciding and manoeuvring the chess board.
250 years later, the same truth holds. AI tools are everywhere. Without a senior technologist inside your org, they're just theater.
From 20-person startups to 5,000-seat GCCs. We embed alongside your team.
The Mechanical Turk, 1770
FraCTO is the human inside the machine.
Your strategy is sharp, your partners are world-class, and your teams are motivated. What's often missing is a thin, independent layer that owns the end-to-end journey from insight to outcome, POC to production, across every partner in the stack.
FraCTO sits alongside Microsoft, AWS, TCS, Databricks, Snowflake, OpenAI, Anthropic and your internal teams. Not in competition. In orchestration. Platform-agnostic by design, with no billing to protect.
Each phase (Assess, Align, A'xecute) is backed by structured, reusable skills, not one-off decks.
A shared scorecard everyone can rally around: your team, your partners, your board.
From first signal to scaled outcome. We stay in the room with SIs, hyperscalers, and your team.
18 AI Skills × 12 Dimensions × End-to-End Ownership

14 questions across 12 dimensions. Instant maturity score. No sign-up.
As-is assessment across 12 dimensions. Stakeholder interviews, architecture review, benchmarking. Quantified baseline.
Strategy, roadmap, and business case. Vendor and partner alignment. Board-ready investment plan with prioritised bets.
Embedded Fractional CTO. Execution governance, vendor orchestration, prototype-to-scale, change management, value tracking.
Enterprise IT instincts, AI-native engineering, and entrepreneurial ambition — combined into a single embedded practice that owns outcomes, not decks.
Decades leading IT transformations at scale. Knows the vendor ecosystems, partner dynamics, and stakeholder politics from the inside — and what realistic looks like.
Functional and technical depth with AI-first instincts. Builds the assessment platform, designs the 18 AI skills, and keeps every recommendation implementable.
Track record of building and scaling businesses. Commercial acumen, market positioning, and the drive to turn a small idea into meaningful enterprise value.
Tell us about your organization and we'll reach out to discuss how we can help.