Advisory and leadership tailored to your growth stage.

• Founders preparing for a Series B/C raise who need credible technology representation in the room
• VC and PE partners wanting an experienced operator on a portfolio company's board
• Strong technical co-founders who have never scaled an engineering function past 30 people

High-stakes technology decisions — replatforming, organisational design, security and compliance posture, build-versus-buy — are being made without battle-tested D2C scale-up perspective. Investor conversations need technical credibility you don't currently have in the room.

• Quarterly strategic technology review against commercial objectives
• Pressure-testing of major architecture, hiring and vendor decisions
• Board-grade reporting that translates engineering into commercial language
• Confidential founder/CEO sounding board between meetings

• D2C founders between £10M and £100M ARR scaling without a senior technology leader
• Businesses where the technical co-founder is overloaded and needs to step back into building
• Companies recovering from a CTO departure who need stability before the next permanent hire

Engineering velocity is slowing, platform incidents are increasing and the team is growing faster than the operating model can support. You need an experienced CTO running the function now — not in six months when the search closes.

• Full deployment of the Scale-Ready Technology Blueprint™ across platform, team and delivery
• Direct line-management of senior engineering hires and existing leads
• Quarterly OKRs aligned to commercial growth, with transparent reporting to founders and board
• A successor plan and handover to a permanent CTO when the time is right

• Businesses facing a critical replatform, migration or architecture decision
• Founders preparing for a fundraise who need a credible pre-raise technology audit
• Companies who have missed a peak trading event and cannot afford to miss the next one

There is one specific, high-cost problem standing between you and your next stage of growth — and you need senior, opinionated leadership to diagnose it, scope the fix and de-risk the execution in weeks rather than quarters.

• Diagnostic and written assessment grounded in commercial impact
• Prioritised roadmap with effort, risk and dependencies made explicit
• Hands-on involvement through the critical path of execution
• A clean handover and operating playbook for the team to run with afterwards