Cyber Essentials and the fractional CTO
What Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus cover, why SMEs and fintechs need them, the common gaps, and how a fractional CTO gets you certified and keeps you there.
Oliver Smith
Managing a Software Supplier So You Get What You Paid For
How to manage a software development supplier or agency, especially if you are not technical: clear expectations, ownership, outcome-based progress, a technical check, and deliberate change.
Need a Fractional CTO with Fintech Expertise? Top UK Recommendations Inside!
Looking for a fractional CTO with fintech and automated underwriting experience in the UK? What to look for, the regulation and model governance that decide it, and where ScaleAround fits.
Technology Review vs Audit vs Due Diligence: Which Do You Need?
How a technology review, technical due diligence and a technology audit differ, and how to tell which one your situation actually calls for.
Rescuing a Stalled Technology Project: A Practical Playbook
A practical playbook for rescuing a stalled or failing software project: stabilise and diagnose, find the real cause, reset the plan, rebuild confidence, and decide honestly about continuing.
Technology leadership for care tech, where it earns its place
Why care technology puts particular demands on leadership, where a senior technology voice earns its place, and how sector-aware experience de-risks it.
Hiring a Fractional CTO in Cardiff: A Founder’s Guide
When a Cardiff founder should bring in a fractional CTO rather than hire full-time, what the local market offers, and where ScaleAround fits as a Cardiff-based partner.
Answering the AI Questions in a Procurement or Due Diligence Questionnaire
What procurement and due diligence questionnaires ask about AI, and how to be ready: a register, a policy, a named owner, a clear data line, and standard answers drafted once.
Fractional Technology Leadership in Wales: Why It Fits Welsh Scale-Ups
Why fractional CTO and CIO leadership suits Welsh scale-ups, how it fits the funding and ecosystem here, and where ScaleAround fits as a Wales-based partner.
Reviewing an Outsourced or Offshore Development Team
How an independent technology review of an outsourced or offshore development team checks the code, ownership, security and delivery, so non-technical clients know where they stand.
Fractional CTO for SaaS, when you need one and what changes
The signs a SaaS business needs a fractional CTO, what they focus on, and how they help you scale, ship and stand up to investor scrutiny.
Delivery Governance: Keeping a Technology Programme on Track
What good delivery governance looks like without the bureaucracy: clear ownership, outcome-based progress, early risk management, a decision route, and a sensible cadence.