Services
Senior technology leadership without the cost or commitment of a permanent CTO.
Unlike purely advisory CTOs, Provolve can also design, build, deploy, and hand over production systems where hands-on delivery is required.
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What's included
Tangible deliverables
Technical roadmap
Architecture review
Delivery risk report
Build vs buy recommendation
Hiring plan
Supplier / agency assessment
Platform rescue plan
Investor or board-level technical narrative
Product and platform specification
System design and architecture diagrams
Website, app, or internal tool design
Prototype or MVP build
Production-ready software implementation
Deployment and release strategy
Cloud / infrastructure architecture
CI/CD and environment setup
Data migration plan
Integration plan
Security and compliance review
Technical due diligence report
Operational handover documentation
Common questions
Sets the technical direction, owns the architecture decisions, oversees developers, agencies, and vendors, makes the build, buy, or rebuild calls, and translates all of it for the board. At Provolve it also includes hands-on delivery, so decisions are tested against working code rather than assumptions.
A consultant produces a report and leaves you to act on it. A fractional CTO stays accountable for the outcome, sits in your management conversations, and is still there when the plan meets reality and needs changing.
Typically one to three days a week while delivery is active, dropping to a lighter oversight pattern once systems are stable and the team can carry the work. The shape is set by what the business needs rather than by a fixed retainer.
When engineering is large enough and permanent enough to need someone in the building every day, usually once the team is beyond roughly fifteen engineers with a multi-year roadmap. A fractional CTO covers the period before that and can run the hiring process for the permanent role.
Both. Architecture, prototypes, integrations, and production systems are all delivered hands on. That is the difference between a purely advisory CTO and one who can prove the recommendation by building it. See what has been delivered.
Book a short call to talk through where the work is getting stuck, what your systems are costing you, and whether a deployment is the right answer. If it is not, you will be told that.