A Futurelab fractional CTO joins your leadership rhythm to set technology and AI direction, make architecture and vendor decisions and keep delivery moving with your team. Engagements run part-time, as project leadership or as interim cover until a permanent hire.
Fractional CTO · AI
For founders and leaders who need sharper product, architecture and delivery decisions while building AI into the business.
Futurelab Studios: OpenAI Select Partner · Claude Partner Network
Trusted by teams at Piramal Foundation · PepsiCo · ITC · SBI · Syngenta
A fractional CTO joins your leadership rhythm to set direction, make the hard calls and keep delivery moving. The work falls into three lanes.
Technology plans tied to business outcomes, not slide decks. A sequenced roadmap from prototype to reliable product.
Where AI fits, how to pilot it and how to govern it responsibly, with practical calls on models, data and cost.
Stack, vendor and build-versus-buy decisions that scale with you, with the trade-offs made visible.
We bring product thinking, technical judgment and delivery experience to the decisions that are hard to make in isolation.
Practical calls on data, models, integrations, security and cost, written down with the trade-offs explained.
A product roadmap shaped around users and business value, sequenced from first prototype to dependable product.
Support for hiring, vendor decisions and execution with your internal team, so work keeps moving between decisions.
Direction and delivery A hands-on technical partner for consequential AI choices: close enough to the build to make grounded decisions, senior enough to own them.
The engagement is scoped around the complexity and pace of the work, and can change shape as you grow.
A standing seat in your leadership rhythm, with continuity on every important decision.
Senior leadership for one high-stakes product, migration or AI programme.
Cover during a transition, until a permanent technology leader is in place.
Every engagement follows the same arc, whatever its length.
Review the product, team, stack and business objectives, and the decisions waiting to be made.
You get: An honest picture of where you stand
Create a clear technical and product path for the next stage, with the trade-offs made explicit.
You get: A technology and AI roadmap
Provide continuing decision support and delivery oversight with your internal team.
You get: Decisions made and delivery on track
Technology leadership and product delivery—from AI Sachiv at state scale to meeting intelligence and learning platforms adopted as a digital public good.
13+ years in marketing and growth leadership at Google, Paytm, Airtel and Amul.
13+ years across business strategy and technology transformation at Amul, Wipro, PepsiCo and Mondelez.
A fractional CTO sits in your leadership lane, with ongoing decisions, accountability and continuity, rather than one-off recommendations. The role owns outcomes over time.
Often two to three days a week, a focused project, or interim cover until you hire permanently. The engagement is scoped around the complexity and pace of the work, and adapts to your stage.
Yes. We mentor engineers, unblock delivery and build internal capability, rather than running a parallel shadow organisation.
No. It can suit any organisation that needs senior AI product and technology leadership, from a scale-up without a CTO to an established company running an AI programme.
The role is leadership-led, but we stay close enough to the build to make grounded decisions, and we can bring in engineering support when the work needs it.
Yes, if that is the right outcome for the organisation. Many engagements move from direction-setting into building the priority products with our team.
Tell us where you are on technology and AI. We will explore fit and outline a sensible first step.