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Fractional Technology Executives for Small to Midsized Businesses

We help you find your hidden operational risk before it finds you.

For companies too big for the IT guy and too small for a full-time CTO.

...or take a short risk diagnostic.

Your Situation

Somewhere between ten and seventy-five employees, technology stops being something you buy and becomes something you bet on.  The decisions get bigger, the reversals get more expensive, and the people qualified to make them are all busy running the business.

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So decisions get made anyway, just not by anyone in particular...
A renewal, audit, or end-of-life date is on the calendar, and no one can tell you what actually breaks if it slips.

Your vendors are setting your architecture one quote at a time, and each quote looks reasonable in isolation.

The person who understands how the whole thing really fits together has been with you eleven years, and is one resignation away from taking it with them.

None of these show up on a P&L, until the quarter they show up all at once.

You don't need a full-time CTO at a full-time salary.

You need someone who will help you make the calls, manage the risks, and give you a plan the board can read, and your team can follow.

What we bring

Founder

Our founder, Ramberto Torruella, is a graduate of Annapolis, submarine officer, retired Navy Captain, and former federal senior executive; with decades of digital technology leadership.

 

Most mid-market leaders have never worked with a fractional technical executive, so here's the shape of how we work.

We shape the strategy.

Not a list of options with a recommendation buried on slide forty. A decision, the reasoning behind it, and the conditions under which we'd reverse it.

We'll lead vendor relations.

Statements of work with acceptance criteria, a governance cadence, and someone on your side of the table who has read the contract and knows what "substantially complete" is going to mean in nine months.

We report back using language your board and bank understand.

Weekly: what changed, what's blocked, what risk got smaller. Not a status deck. Evidence.

We leave you in charge.

Every engagement ends with something your team can run without us. That's the deliverable, and that's the point.

We work in defined engagements with a fixed scope and a stated end date, sized for a growing business rather than a Fortune 500 budget.

You buy a decision and a plan, not a seat on your payroll.

Where we help

Digital Strategy

Ad hoc technology decisions are a risk that compounds quietly until a renewal, audit, or growth spurt exposes it.

We assess how your technology investments actually map to your business goals, surface the decisions being deferred or made by default, and deliver an executive roadmap with clear options, trade offs, and a 90-day action plan.

You get decision-ready strategy, not a binder.

Cybersecurity

Most SMBs don't know their real exposure until an incident, insurance questionnaire, or a client audit forces the question.

We run structured risk assessments built on NIST CSF and CIS Controls, the same governance discipline used in defense and federal environments.  We find the gaps in access control, recovery readiness, and security evidence before someone else does.

You get a prioritized remediation plan ranked by business impact, not a 400-line vulnerability dump.

Infrastructure Modernization

The most dangerous platform in your business is the one everyone is afraid to touch; too fragile to trust, too critical to turn off.

We map your mission-critical dependencies and blast radius, define the safe path to replacement, and provide hands-on executive leadership through cutover, with weekly reporting so leadership sees risk shrinking instead of hoping it is.

You get modernization without downtime and without drama.

Decision Superiority (Knowledge and Key-Person Risk)

When critical judgment lives only in the founder's head or a few indispensable experts, every vacation, resignation, and new hire is a risk event.

We map where decisions, context, and know-how actually live, score your key-person dependencies, and build the transfer plan that turns fragile expertise into repeatable operating practice.

You get a business where the right calls get made without everything routing back to you.

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What people say

"Helped us modernize our  on-air systems including a full library cloud migration.  Not a single broadcast interruption."
Ethan Raup
CEO, KEXP

"Goal oriented and mission focused. Can accomplish anything.  They have the ability to quell bad ideas without making folks feel bad."
Reece Morgan
Program Director, Leidos

"Work products of superior intellectual quality.  Went far beyond our expectations."
David Blair
Vice President
Center for China and Globalization

"These folks are fast studies with penetrating logic. Calm in the storm of timelines."
Jan Jedrych
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Sustainment

Decades in high-consequence environments: submarine operations, coalition communications, cyberspace missions, public broadcasting, applied AI and ML.
We take a no-surprises approach when helping businesses scale.
Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned-Certified

Nobody should hire a fractional executive on a handshake and an open-ended invoice. Every engagement starts the same way: a defined assessment, a fixed scope, a stated end date, and a deliverable you own whether or not you ever work with us again.

Start with a fixed-scope assessment.

Two entry points, depending on where your risk lives:
Platform Risk Assessment
Knowledge Risk Audit

Start here if...
A renewal, audit, or end-of-life date is approaching and a core system can't go down
Decisions route back to the founder or a few indispensable people

Duration:
2 to 3 weeks
3 to 4 weeks

You get...
Mission threads and dependencies mapped to blast radius; top risks with options, trade-offs, and cost bands; a 90-day execution plan with gates, owners, and proof points
Where judgment and context actually live; scored key-person dependencies; a transfer plan that converts fragile expertise into repeatable practice

What happens next:
Optional retainer to execute. Never assumed, never bundled.
Optional retainer to execute. Never assumed, never bundled.

If you can name the date and the person who owns the risk, you're in a buying moment.  If you can't, that's what the 15-minute call is for.

Find the risk before it finds you
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Twenty minutes, no deck. We'll work out whether your risk sits mainly in the platform, in the people system, or in both, and what a first engagement would actually look like.