Fractional, the way it should work. A senior who has run the function before, sitting on your leadership team, with the day-rate dropped because they're sharing time across three clients - not because they're junior.
We don't sell a generic "fractional" person and force them into your gap. Pick the role; we send a senior who's done it before, in your sector, at your size of business.
Six cadence touchpoints. Same shape every month. Consistent enough to be useful and bounded enough not to drift into an unpriced full-time role.
Day-rate creep. Slide decks instead of decisions. A different person every quarter. A surprise invoice in month two.
Monthly retainer, 3-month minimum, then rolling 30-day notice. The retainer covers the cadence below. Build work is priced and contracted separately, never stealthily billed against your fractional hours.
Four representative profiles from our current bench. Named identities are shared on the matching call. Everyone listed below is a permanent AssurePath fractional, background-checked, with prior board exposure.
20 years engineering leadership. Ex-Head of Engineering at a UK fintech (Series C, sold). Now CTO at 2 mid-market SaaS firms + 1 PE-backed retailer.
CISSP, CISM. 15 years cyber leadership. Named CISO on three FCA permissions. ISO 27001 lead auditor. Built two cyber programmes from zero to certification.
CIO of a 600-staff professional services firm pre-acquisition. Specialises in M365 + Azure consolidation, business systems and post-merger IT integration.
Ex-Head of IT at three SMEs (80–220 staff). Specialises in stretched IT managers, MSP rationalisation, and small-team operating models. Down-to-earth.
The fractional scopes the programme, then leads our build team. One throat to choke, no consulting handover.
ExploreThe CISO owns the controls; we operate them. SOC, EDR, vulnerability management, incident response.
ExploreThe IT Director sets the SLA, picks the vendors, signs off the operating model - and we run it underneath.
ExploreEight of the questions clients ask before they pick a fractional role. We answer them again, properly, on the call.
A fractional CTO is a part-time, contract technology executive who sits on your leadership team, owns your technology strategy, and reports to the board. AssurePath fractional CTOs are senior engineers who have run technology functions at scale - usually 2–4 days per month, embedded in your weekly leadership rhythm, with a board paper every quarter. From £6,000 per month, 3-month minimum.
