Fractional CTO & AI Integration

Your company needs a technology leader.
Not another full-time hire.

Strateon provides senior technical leadership and AI transformation strategy for European companies with €5M–€50M revenue. Executive-level guidance, without the executive-level overhead.

30% of EU businesses now use fractional executives
€800–2K daily rate for fractional CTO leadership
5–10 clients served with full strategic depth

The mid-market technology gap

01

Too big for freelancers

Your decisions have real consequences. Architecture mistakes cost months. Vendor lock-in costs millions. You need someone who has seen this before.

02

Too small for McKinsey

Enterprise consultancies price you out and deliver slide decks, not systems. You need hands-on leadership that actually ships.

03

AI is moving without you

Every quarter you wait, competitors embed AI deeper into their operations. You need a strategy that starts now, not a 6-month discovery phase.

Work that moved the needle

AI Transformation Manufacturing

Legacy-to-AI Migration at Scale

A manufacturing firm carried 15 years of custom ERP logic across 40+ disconnected internal tools. Decision-making was slow, error-prone, and entirely dependent on institutional knowledge in a handful of people's heads.

40% reduction in operational overhead
8 mo from diagnosis to production

Strateon mapped every critical workflow, identified the 20% of logic that drove 80% of decisions, and replaced it with AI-assisted orchestration. Legacy systems were decommissioned in phases — zero disruption to production operations.

Architecture Audit SaaS / Series B

Pre-Series-B Architecture Review

A B2B SaaS startup was six months from a fundraise and nervous. Their platform had scaled from zero to 300 customers on a monolith built in a sprint. They needed confidence — or a plan.

3 critical scalability bottlenecks identified
$0 in hidden infrastructure costs post-raise

A two-week deep-dive produced a written findings report with severity classifications, remediation timelines, and a defensible narrative for their technical due diligence meeting. The CTO pitched with the report in hand. They closed their round.

Vendor Evaluation Financial Services

Enterprise AI Platform Selection

A financial services firm needed an enterprise AI platform. Eight vendors were in contention. Each claimed full compliance coverage. Sales cycles were consuming internal engineering time with nothing to show.

$2M mistake avoided by selecting the right fit
8 vendors evaluated in 6 weeks

Strateon built a structured evaluation framework against the firm's actual compliance requirements and data residency constraints — not vendor marketing claims. Three vendors were eliminated in week one. The shortlist of two was stress-tested against production-like scenarios. One clear winner emerged, with a written recommendation the procurement team could stand behind.

What Strateon delivers

Fixed-scope engagements with clear deliverables. No retainer lock-in until you need ongoing leadership.

AI Transformation

$15,000 – $50,000 per engagement

Full-stack AI integration from strategy to deployment. Covers opportunity mapping, vendor selection, integration architecture, and rollout. You end with working systems and internal capability — not a slide deck.

Architecture Audit

$8,000 – $20,000 per engagement

Deep technical review with written findings and a prioritized roadmap. Covers scalability, security posture, infrastructure costs, and technical debt. Scoped for fundraises, acquisition diligence, or internal confidence.

Vendor Evaluation

$5,000 – $15,000 per engagement

Structured evaluation framework with a written recommendation report. Covers technical fit, compliance, integration cost, and total cost of ownership. Cuts through enterprise sales cycles and gives your team a defensible basis for a decision.

How it works

1

Diagnostic

Two-week assessment of your technology landscape, team capabilities, and strategic objectives.

2

Strategy

Actionable roadmap with clear priorities, resource requirements, and measurable milestones.

3

Execution

Ongoing fractional leadership: 1-3 days per week embedded in your team, driving decisions and removing blockers.

Based in the EU

Same timezone as your team. Available when decisions need to be made, not 8 hours later.

Builder, not advisor

I write architecture docs and review pull requests. Not just strategy decks.

Start the conversation

Every engagement begins with a 45-minute diagnostic call — no charge, no commitment. Tell us what you're working on.

Response time Within one business day