AI-native fractional CTO practiceFractional CTO leadership. AI-native speed. Fractional cost.
Most founders think they must choose between a hands-on engineer, a strategic executive, or a disciplined project director. I bring all three.
25 years hands-on in engineering, years in the executive seat, and the formal project-direction discipline (CPPD) to steer high-stakes builds.
Australian-based and a native English speaker, I translate complex trade-offs into plain language your board can act on — not an offshore relay you manage across a language gap and a timezone.
Then I put agentic coding to work so your lean team ships like a 20-person dev org — at a fraction of the cost and time.
- 25 yrs
- Engineering & technical leadership
- CPPD
- Certified Practising Project Director
- Since 2013
- Building applied AI & ML
- Australia
- Based, working globally
The problem
Building a tech company without a tech founder is risky
Most founders discover the cost of the wrong technical bet only after the money is spent. These are the four traps we’re built to keep you out of.
The agency trap
Six figures to a dev shop that hands back heavy, over-engineered code your team can’t maintain — and a dependency you can’t get out of.
Hiring blind
Interviewing senior engineers or offshore teams with no one senior enough to audit their code, their claims or their architecture.
Full-time CTO cost
A permanent CTO runs $250k–$350k plus equity — a heavy, slow-to-reverse bet to place before you’ve even found product-market fit.
Falling behind on AI
Competitors shipping software several times faster with autonomous coding agents while your pipeline stalls and your burn keeps climbing.
The AI-native advantage
Tech leadership built for the next generation of software
We don’t just manage tech teams; we change how your product gets built. Executive technical strategy, combined with agentic coding workflows, delivers what used to take a ten-person team.
Traditional dev cycle
4–6 weeks
CTO Executives AI workflow
4–6 days
10× faster MVPs
Validate ideas in days or weeks, not quarters — real, user-testable software instead of slideware.
Fractional overhead
C-suite strategy, architecture and governance for a fraction of a full-time executive salary.
Defensible AI
Past the ChatGPT wrappers: proprietary data pipelines, agentic automation and technical IP you own.
How we partner
Four ways we plug in
One accountable technical leader, deployed against the problem in front of you — from first line of strategy to a fully vetted engineering team.
Fractional CTO leadership
Best for
Non-technical founders and SMEs scaling a platform.
What you get
Strategic roadmapping, board representation, investor technical due diligence, cloud architecture, vendor management and hiring — one accountable executive in the room.
AI-native product development
Best for
Early-stage startups needing a production-ready MVP, fast.
What you get
Hands-on architecture and delivery built on modern agentic coding stacks — cutting time-to-market and build burn by up to 70%.
Tech audit & AI transformation
Best for
Established companies and SMEs modernising existing software.
What you get
Deep code and security audit, compliance review (HIPAA, SOC 2), and an actionable blueprint to bring agentic AI into how you build and operate.
Team build-out & vetting
Best for
Founders ready to hire their first in-house engineers.
What you get
Hiring pipelines, technical screening, coding assessments and onboarding protocols that stand up a high-output engineering culture from day one.
Who it’s for
Built for high-stakes, high-velocity teams
The partnership works best where the domain is hard, the regulation is real, and speed to market is the difference between leading and being caught.
HealthTech & LegalTech founders
Domain experts who know the regulation and the customer pain, but need a partner to architect HIPAA/SOC 2-compliant platforms they can defend.
Non-technical SME owners
Established operators modernising operations, or launching a modern SaaS product on top of existing revenue streams.
VC-backed startups
Companies preparing for Seed or Series A, and the technical due diligence that comes with it.
The model
One principal accountable. A full practice behind him.
A full-time CTO is a heavy, slow-to-reverse bet. A lone freelancer disappears when the work outgrows them. CTO Executives is built to be neither. I hold the architecture and the governance; the practice holds the depth. One throat to choke, an entire bench to draw on.
The Anchor
Vinnie Amir, in the boardroom
Architectural authority
I make the build-vs-buy, platform and AI calls your board can defend to investors.
Governance that de-risks capital
A CPPD-grade framework (risk registers, architecture reviews and real reporting), so nothing expensive fails quietly.
A peer, not a vendor
I speak to ROI and commercial risk in your language, then translate it into engineering direction for the team.
Personal accountability
My name is on the outcome, not just the recommendation.
The Bench
The CTO Executives practice, on the ground
Matched specialists
Vetted fractional CTOs and domain experts, selected for your stage, stack and industry.
Seamless continuity
The engagement never rests on one person’s calendar. The practice absorbs surge, leave and scale.
Engineering surge capacity
Extra hands when the roadmap demands them, without you hiring and carrying a full engineering org.
AI-native delivery
Applied intelligence and agentic engineering woven through the build: production-grade, not pilot-ware.
Track record
The kind of results a governed engagement delivers
Representative outcomes from engagements where I set the architecture and governance, and the practice executed against it. Different industries, one pattern: senior judgement in the room, and work that actually ships.
SaaS
Release cadence transformed
Embedded fractional CTO for a scaling product team. Sprint predictability and deployment frequency improved within the first quarter.
6 wks → 5 days
Professional services
AI workflow automation
Designed and shipped document-processing automation for a mid-market firm. Manual review time cut dramatically without compromising quality controls.
~60% less manual work
Fintech
Investor-ready diligence
Technical due diligence for a growth-round raise: architecture, security and team assessment delivered on deal timeline.
10-day turnaround
E-commerce
Systems that talk to each other
Connected inventory, fulfilment and customer support into a coherent stack. Fewer manual handoffs and faster issue resolution.
3 systems unified
Regulated industry
Compliance built in from day one
Mapped regulatory obligations to technical controls, audit trails and data handling, so the platform could pass scrutiny without a last-minute scramble.
Audit-ready posture
Enterprise
Security strategy that scales
Defined security architecture, access model and roadmap for a business selling into larger accounts, closing the gap between “we take security seriously” and evidence buyers can trust.
SOC 2 path mapped
FAQ
Common questions
Do we get Vinnie, or a whole team?
How is this different from hiring a full-time CTO?
What kinds of businesses do you work with?
How can you ship so much faster than an agency?
Is this just vibe coding with extra steps?
How quickly can you start?
Ready to build software at the speed of AI?
Stop overpaying for bloated agencies or carrying technical risk alone. Let’s talk about how an AI-native fractional CTO turns your vision into scalable software.