Onboarding
Two sessions to understand the business, the technology landscape, and the decisions on your near horizon. From there we're context-aware.
Trusted Tech Advisor
An on-call senior architect for your leadership team. Peer-level, independent, on the phone when it matters.
What this is
Sparring without the sales pitch.
CTOs and CIOs are surrounded by people with something to sell. Vendors with quotas, agencies with bench, internal teams with their own preferences. The one thing rarely on the table: a senior peer with no incentive other than your outcome. A Trusted Tech Advisor engagement gives you that, monthly. Architecture reviews, vendor evaluations, board-paper sparring, hiring panels, second opinions on big decisions — picked up when you need them, dropped when you don't. No pitch deck, no upsell, no lock-in. The relationship lives or dies by whether you reach for the phone when something hard lands on your desk.
How a retainer runs.
Light-touch by design. Heavy-lift when you need it.
Monthly cadence
A regular working session — usually ninety minutes — focused on whatever's most live. Plus on-demand availability between sessions.
Working sessions
Architecture review, vendor pitch debrief, board-paper drafting, hiring panel, technical due diligence — whatever the month brings.
Renewal
Quarterly check-in on whether the engagement is earning its retainer. We'll tell you to drop it if it isn't.
What the retainer gives you.
A few concrete markers across delivery, reach, and continuity.
On-demand
Senior availability
Phone, email, working session
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Vendor incentives
We don't resell — we don't get paid by anyone but you
Monthly
Retainer
No lock-in, drop with one month's notice
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Senior peer
Same person, same context, every time
Common questions.
CTOs, CIOs, founders carrying technology, COOs without a CTO. Mid-market through enterprise. The common thread is wanting an external senior peer with no agenda.
Typically ten to fifteen hours a month with a monthly working session as the anchor. We size the retainer to your needs — and we'll right-size it down if you're not using it.
Sometimes — if it's the right shape for both sides. The default is technical advisor without a board seat, which keeps the relationship light and useful.
We can take on delivery — see our other services. The retainer doesn't bias us toward making more work; we'll often refer it elsewhere if that fits better.
Want a senior peer on call?
Thirty-minute intro call. We'll tell you whether a retainer is the right shape for you.