AI moved tech from something you buy to something you build. We help you in this transition.
This is for you if...
Every change goes through a vendor ticket. Your roadmap is in someone else's hands.
You are paying for capability you do not own and cannot modify when you need to.
Your competitors are building internal capability. You are still negotiating contracts.
If your vendor raised prices tomorrow or shut down, you would have no real option.
What you currently depend on, what it would take to leave each one, and the order to do it in.
We run a full audit of your vendors and platforms, with the real cost and the switching risk written next to each dependency. This will help you decide what to keep and what to cut or rework.
How the tech, data and AI work operates once it is yours: who does what, on what cadence, and where decisions get made.
We define a clean, AI-enabled team operating model tailored for your business and goals. We define the routines that keep things running week to week, and the escalation paths for anything needing a decision.
How your tech gets built, released and kept alive in your business, from the first idea to the launch and beyond.
We define how something gets scoped and tested before it goes live, what has to be true for it to ship, and who keeps it working afterwards.
The skills you need in-house to run this, which of them you already have, and what to hire for.
We help you hire, train, or outsource the key roles needed for your business to become AI-enabled.
Built AI-first tech stack after being ghosted by the tech vendor
Short-term rental operator, 100+ properties
A short-term rentals platform built their tech stack with a vendor that became unresponsive. We stepped in as fractional CTO and stood up a lean AI-enabled engineering team from scratch, with strong processes for prioritisation, coordination, and delivery. The team now ships five times faster than the vendor did, at lower cost, on infrastructure the company actually owns. New features now are built in a day, instead of a couple of weeks.
Start with a free call. From there we either run a full value iteration on your stack and hand you the plan, or we stay on as your fractional CTO for data and AI.
Free, 30 minutes
Bring one thing that's stuck. We tell you what's wrong with it and what to do first. For free.
Book a checkpointScoped engagement, one-off
We analyse your whole stack and build a pragmatic plan: what's broken, what to fix first, and who should own it. Your team or any vendor you hire can run it.
Ongoing, fractional
We work with you for a few hours weekly to push the strategy with e.g. prioritisation, vendor calls, architecture decisions and hiring.
Your AI capability is something you own rather than rent. Your data is not locked in vendor platforms, your workflows are documented and portable, and your team can operate and evolve the systems without calling a vendor every time something needs to change.
It becomes one when pricing changes, a vendor shuts down, or a competitor builds the same capability in-house for less. Vendor dependency is comfortable until the vendor's interests diverge from yours.
With a vendor audit: mapping what you depend on, what is replaceable, and what the real cost and risk of each dependency is. Then we sequence the exits so each one moves you toward something better. Cutting cost on its own is not a good enough reason to move.
Not necessarily. Owning your stack means understanding and controlling your systems, not building everything from scratch. We design the operating model to match your actual team size, so you are not hiring for capability you do not need yet.
Our part is a few weeks: the vendor map, the operating model, and the sequenced exit plan. Running that plan is your team's work. Most businesses see meaningful progress in 3 to 4 months, and full independence on core systems is usually 6 to 8 months out.