edd smith, cto & it consultant

"CTO as a Service"  a CTO in residence provides the technical voice, or soundboard, to strengthen your management team to make sure the software engineering side of your business is supported so you can achieve your engineering goals.

We offer strategic advice aligning to the phase of your development journey, whether you are starting a new product or aiming for the next iteration. We can plan out the right strategy to get your first customers onboard, or we can help you manage technical debt and growing pains of scaling.

To build software you need a team of people with lots of different roles, or experience which you may not have.  For example, a CTO, Head of Engineering or a technical team lead and most of the time you don't need these roles full-time.

It can also be hard to find the right person to fill the required role, during the phase you need it. Our team can solve this by taking on a variety of roles at any stage of your product, working with your partners collaboratively to meet your goals.

We can join your business on a daily basis to tackle your technical needs.

We will help you build a  team culture where your engineers can thrive!  

By introducing a combination of best practices as well as a culture of open feedback and peer mentoring, we  can guide your team to optimse through the right processes and collaboration through the scale up phase,

Our first priority is to create a safe environment where people can thrive, we introduce just enough process to help team efficiency and we tackle the things that are holding your teams back. 

We partner with our clients to share our industry experience as technology leaders, 

We provide you technical documentation to support both the architecture and purpose of your technology, highlighting boundaries for CDR data, providing feedback on weaknesses and supporting your growth journey.

Our team thoroughly reviews your processes to strengthen your compliance and technical capabilities and provide solutions for your needs.