Services
Technology advisory
Independent advice for boards and executive teams making decisions they cannot easily reverse.
The decisions
Most engagements start with a question like one of these.
Whether to build the capability in-house, buy it, or license it, and what each path costs over time.
Whether an ageing platform needs replacing, or whether targeted work extends its life.
Which supplier to choose, and what to check before you sign.
Whether technology spend matches the plan, and where it does not.
A second opinion on a project the board no longer believes.
An independent check of what a team, a target, or a supplier is telling you.
How the advice arrives
A scoped engagement or a standing retainer. Written opinions you can put in front of a board. Daniel attends board or investment committee meetings when it helps.
The advice is specific. What to do, what it costs, what to watch, and what to stop doing.
Fractional leadership
When the gap is leadership rather than a single decision, Daniel takes a fractional CTO role. Days per week or days per month, agreed in advance, with clear outcomes and honest reporting on progress against them.
A fractional role should end. The exit is agreed at the start. Usually a permanent hire, a stable team, or a completed change.
AI, adopted carefully
Boards are under pressure to move on AI, and most proposals overstate what exists today. The advice covers what to adopt, what to decline, and what to monitor, with governance and risk management to match.
Daniel has built and reviewed AI systems. The advice starts from how the technology actually behaves, not from the pitch.
After a deal
Diligence findings become an executable plan for the first hundred days and beyond. Each finding gets a priority, an owner, a cost, a timeline, and a success measure, so the board sees progress rather than a list of intentions.
Delivery, when the advice calls for it
A small team of senior specialists builds under the same standards as the advice. Complex architecture, migration, and recovery. Delivery supports the advice. It never leads.
Why independence matters
Daniel is not selling software, licences, or a delivery team. The advice is the product.
That means the answer can be small. If the right answer is “do nothing”, that is the advice you get.
Before you invest, sign, or build, talk it through.
Book a confidential call. Bring the decision. Daniel will say how he can help, or tell you plainly if he cannot.
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