Senior IT leadership. Without the full-time salary.

A fractional CIO is a senior technology leader who works with your company part-time or on a project basis. You get executive-level strategic guidance without the cost of a full-time hire. We typically work with companies that are too big for ad-hoc IT decisions but not yet ready for a £150k+ CIO salary.

Consultants usually deliver a report and leave. We stay accountable. If we recommend a technology roadmap, we help you implement it. Same team, same accountability. We are invested in outcomes, not deliverables.

Yes. We build the roadmap and implement the technical controls through our Access Management, Device Management, and Managed IT services. We prepare you for audit with gap analysis, control implementation, and evidence collection.

SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, and GDPR. The technical controls overlap significantly, so once you have implemented identity and device management properly, you are covering multiple frameworks at once.

For SOC 2 Type I, typically 8 to 12 weeks if you are starting from scratch. Type II requires 6 to 12 months of operating controls. We can accelerate this significantly if you already have some controls in place.

Yes, this is a common use case. We prepare technology assessments for fundraising, help you answer investor questions about your tech stack, and can represent your company's technology capabilities in due diligence processes.

That is what the discovery workshop is for. We will assess your current state, identify the gaps, and recommend whether you need a one-off project, ongoing advisory, or something else entirely. No commitment required.

We work it out with you. Discovery is always the starting point, so we scope your needs before quoting. If you have a specific project like compliance prep, fixed pricing works best. For ongoing strategic support, advisory retainer.