Old is not the same as broken. Plenty of businesses run on systems that are 15 years old and perfectly sound, and plenty have spent a fortune replacing something that only needed leaving alone. The decision to modernise should rest on four things. Whether the system still does th
Most development spend is lost to waste, not to engineering. Work that was never needed, work done twice, work waiting on a decision, work that shipped and broke. Cut the waste and you cut the cost while quality goes up, because the same people spend their time on things that mat
A fractional CTO does not replace your developers or your agency. They lead them. The relationship works when the CTO sets direction and standards, the team or agency does the building, and the founder stops being the go-between. Done well, the people already doing the work get b