Fractional CTO.

A fractional CTO is a chief technology officer engaged for the days you need rather than employed full time.

Every business makes technology decisions. Which systems to run, what to spend, when to replace them, which vendor to believe. In a large company those decisions belong to a chief technology officer. In a family office or an investment firm they usually belong to nobody, and so they are made by default, by the vendor with the best pitch, or by whoever had the least time to consider them. The cost rarely arrives as a disaster. It arrives as spend that creeps, systems that never quite fit and decisions nobody can quite defend.

A fractional CTO puts those decisions in senior hands for a fraction of the cost of employing one. As your fractional CTO, Mayfair Tech will oversee your IT, either as your support company as well or independently of the provider you already use. We assess what you have and tell you plainly what is good, what is not and what it should cost. We hold the people doing the work accountable, plan the year ahead with you and sit beside you for the big decisions, a new office, a new system, an incident.

The counsel is senior, drawing on more than twenty years in IT and on the businesses we already serve, whose requirements look like yours. We take the time to understand how the business runs, then answer for its technology strategy, from the annual agenda and the budget to vendor selection, renewals and reporting to principals, partners and boards in plain language.

Some investors and counterparties expect a named individual to be accountable for technology. We hold that position for you, attend where the mandate requires it and answer the technology questions in diligence, so the function is real rather than a name on a form.

The role is scaled to your needs, from quarterly counsel to standing leadership. It pairs naturally with our IT support, where the strategy we set becomes the work we deliver. For counsel on AI specifically, see AI consultancy.