Not every business needs a full-time CTO, but every business making technology decisions deserves expert guidance. Our Fractional CTO service gives you access to senior technology leadership exactly when you need it, without the commitment of a full-time hire.
We start with honesty. If we can't help you, we'll tell you straight away. No bluffing, no pretending, no wasted time. When we can help, we offer a clear pathway from initial conversation through to delivered software.
A fractional CTO sits alongside your leadership and makes the technology calls a CTO would make – without being on your payroll five days a week. In practice that means deciding what to build next and what to leave alone, reviewing the work your team or suppliers are doing and telling you straight when something’s off, sense-checking quotes and contracts before you sign, helping you assess technical hires, and owning the roadmap so your business plan and what actually gets built line up.
The point isn’t hours of CTO time for the sake of it. The point is that you make the next twelve months of technology decisions with senior input, instead of guessing.
A free, no-obligation conversation where we ask questions to understand your situation. We'll be honest about whether we can help - if we can't, we'll say so.
Blocks of 5 one-hour consultations. Discuss anything you like: think through ideas, review completed work, or get advice on technology use in your business. Buy as many blocks as you need.
Have a software idea? We interview your key staff to define what's in and out of scope. You get a detailed specification, interactive wireframes, and a fixed-price quote valid for 6 months. Take it to any supplier.
Ready to move forward? We deliver your MVP at the fixed price we quoted. Our experienced development team brings your vision to life with the same transparency and honesty.
A full-time CTO is a £150k-plus commitment, six months of hiring, and a relationship you can’t easily unwind if it doesn’t work. For a lot of growing businesses that’s the wrong shape.
Faster to start. We can be in conversation with you next week, not next quarter. No agency, no notice period, no onboarding overhead.
More senior than you could afford full-time. Twenty-plus years of experience, applied where it counts – without the salary, equity, and on-cost of a permanent hire.
Independent. No internal politics. No career angles. We’ll tell you what we’d do if it were our own money on the line.
Knowledge transfer, not dependency. Our job is to make you better at the technology calls, not to lock you into needing us forever. When the engagement ends, you keep what we’ve built and what we’ve taught you.
Scales with you. Buy more time when you’re making big decisions, less when things are steady. Nothing renews automatically.
William Annison brought us an idea but had never built software before. We started with conversation – scoping what was actually being built, agreeing a fixed price – then delivered the MVP.
Working with Elastic Mint has been a journey. Their advice has helped me turn a vague idea into a workable product: they positively disrupted my understanding of what it means to build software. Friendly, helpful, and professional I have made the right choice in teaming with them.
