Fractional CTO Cost Calculator
What senior technical leadership costs at the days per week you actually need, next to the year-1 all-in cost of a full-time hire. UK 2026 market rates.
Run the numbersFree Tools That Answer the Discovery-Call Questions
Most first calls open on the same handful of questions: what a CTO costs, whether you need one yet, how far behind you are on AI, and what the work nobody is doing is costing you. These tools give you the honest first-pass answer in under 3 minutes. Free, no email gate, nothing stored.
Pick the Question You're Actually Asking
Each tool uses the same numbers and thresholds I use in real engagements, not softened for marketing.
Do You Need a CTO?
8 questions about your team, stage, board, and budget. The recommendation is one of four honest answers, and one of them is "not yet".
Take the scorecardAI Readiness Score
10 statements about how AI actually runs in your business. A 0–100 score, your current stage, and the one thing to fix next.
Get your scoreAI Reality Gap
You score how AI is used across your company. Your team answers the same ten statements anonymously. Then you see the gap, statement by statement. Most leadership teams are wrong by a wide margin.
Measure your gapAI Output Fixes
When AI output comes out wrong: broken Google Docs formatting, ignored templates, off tone, invented facts, mangled tables. A copy-paste fix per annoyance, plus the permanent fix underneath it.
Browse the fixesRaise-Readiness Scorecard
Raising Seed to Series A? 12 questions across the 6 areas investor technical DD probes: IP, team risk, architecture, security, delivery, and the AI story. Score in your browser; full report optional.
Score your readinessvoice.md Generator
Paste your own writing and get a voice.md file that makes any AI sound like you, not a press release. Measured from your samples, not guessed. Nothing stored, runs in your browser.
Prompt Library
The prompts I actually install for clients: about-you brief, style guardrails, knowledge hygiene, plus workflows for coaches, small business owners, and founders. Copy-to-clipboard, no email gate.
Browse the promptsSkills Library
Sixteen Claude skill files I install for clients: three foundation files, six for founders, two for teams, and five CTO decision frameworks. Download, upload to Claude, every conversation starts right.
Browse the skillsCost of Not Hiring
Price the work nobody is doing: unchased invoices, dead follow-ups, cold deals, missed renewals. Then compare doing nothing, hiring a person, and installing an AI role. A second tab indicates what a named role could add, and says plainly which of the two numbers you can actually verify.
Price the gapWhy these are free, with no email gate
Same reason the pricing on this site is published: it saves both of us a call that shouldn't happen. If the calculator tells you a fractional CTO doesn't fit your budget, or the scorecard says you don't need one yet, that's a good outcome. You got the answer, I didn't pitch you.
The calculators and scorecards run in your browser. Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere, with two clearly-labelled exceptions: getting the raise scorecard's full report and the cost-of-not-hiring breakdown each ask for an email, and only if you choose to.
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