Beast Creative  /  Fractional CTO

Senior judgment,
every month.

Some companies don’t need a project. They need somebody in the room who can tell them what to build, what to ignore, and what it will actually cost — before the money is spent.

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01 — The problem

Most technology decisions get made by accident

Somebody picks a tool because a friend uses it. A build gets quoted by the people who’d be doing the building. A subscription renews for the fourth year running because cancelling it is somebody’s job and nobody’s priority.

None of that is incompetence. It’s what happens when a business has no one whose actual job is to hold the technical picture — and can’t justify a full-time CTO to do it.

02 — The two shapes

A build, or a standing seat

One at a time

The Two-Week Build

You already know what you want. I build it, hand it over, and we’re done — fixed price, fixed dates, no obligation to continue.

  • One defined problem
  • Fourteen days, $3,000 fixed
  • Yours outright on day fourteen

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Ongoing

Fractional CTO

You don’t always know what you want — that’s the point. I hold the technical picture with you, month to month, and build the parts worth building.

  • Decisions before they get expensive
  • A standing view of the whole stack
  • Month to month, cancel whenever

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03 — What the month looks like

Not a retainer you forget about

Standing

The picture

I keep an accurate map of what you run, what it costs, and where it will break next. Most companies have never had one.

On call

Decisions

Before you sign a platform, brief an agency, or hire a developer — a straight answer from someone with no stake in the outcome.

Each month

Something built

The role isn’t advisory only. Part of every month goes into building the things worth building.

Quietly

Fewer suppliers

Renting five tools that half-fit is usually more expensive than owning one that fits. That maths gets checked.

04 — Fit

Who this suits

A good fit

  • You’re the founder or operator, and technology decisions currently land on you by default
  • You’re spending real money on software and can’t tell what’s earning it
  • You have more ideas than you can evaluate, and the good ones keep stalling
  • You want one person accountable rather than three suppliers pointing at each other

Probably not

  • You already have a technical leader and need hands, not judgment — a defined build is the better shape
  • You want someone to manage an existing engineering team day to day
  • The decision needs sign-off from people who won’t be on the call
  • You want a written strategy rather than someone in the room. I’m more useful building than reporting.

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05 — Start

Tell me what you’re deciding

This goes straight to me, not to a sales team. If a two-week build is the better answer than a monthly arrangement, I’ll say so on the call.

01Name
02Email
03Company
04Your role
05What decision is in front of you? The thing you’d want a second opinion on. A platform you’re about to sign, a build you’re about to brief, a hire you’re not sure about.
06How do technology decisions get made today? Who decides, and what does that usually look like? “Me, badly, at 11pm” is a real answer.
07What you’re running now
08When
09How did you find me?

What happens next
  1. I read it. Usually same day, always within two.
  2. Thirty minutes. We go through the decision in front of you and I tell you what I’d do.
  3. Then you choose. A monthly arrangement, a single build, or neither — the call is useful either way.

Prefer email? don@beastcreative.co