Strategic Advisory
For founder-led businesses that need a strategic technology partner. Not just a service provider. We work directly with leadership teams to align technology with business direction, plan for scale, and navigate operational complexity.
What this looks like in practice
Technology Roadmap
A clear, prioritised plan for your technology environment, aligned to where the business is going, not just where it is today.
Operational Audit
A structured review of how technology currently serves, or fails, your operations, with specific recommendations for improvement.
Fractional CIO
Ongoing strategic oversight: vendor management, technology decisions, team guidance, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Scale Planning
Preparing the technology and operational infrastructure before growth exposes the gaps, not after the business is already under pressure.
IT Due Diligence
Pre-acquisition or pre-investment technology assessment: identifying risk, debt, and opportunity in a target’s IT environment.
Leadership Advisory
A direct sounding board for technology and operational decisions, available to the founder or leadership team when it matters.
Who this is for
Most founder-led businesses reach a point where technology starts to become a constraint rather than an enabler. The team is growing, the systems aren’t keeping up, and the founder is making too many technology decisions with too little information.
Strategic Advisory is designed for that moment. It’s also the right fit for businesses going through a significant transition: a new market, a new funding round, a merger or acquisition, or a leadership change that requires a fresh look at how technology serves the business.
Every engagement is run directly by senior operators. You get the full weight of 20+ years of enterprise and SME experience, not a junior consultant backed by a methodology deck.
The signs it’s the right time
Technology decisions are being made reactively, not strategically
The business is scaling but the systems are not keeping pace
Vendor relationships are unmanaged or commercially unfavourable
A major business change is approaching that has technology implications
The founder is the default technology decision-maker with no strategic support
IT spend is increasing but the operational return is unclear
Strategic technology leadership, on a monthly retainer
A senior partner aligning technology to business direction, without a full-time executive salary.
Advisory
from R12,500 /month
Leadership wants a senior sounding board and a quarterly technology roadmap. Monthly strategic session plus on-call guidance.
Operational
from R28,000 /month
Active oversight of systems and automation as the business scales. Roadmap, vendor and build oversight, monthly reporting.
Embedded
from R45,000 /month
A near full-time technology partner inside the leadership team. Ongoing delivery oversight, planning, and optimisation.
Most clients move here after an Operational Clarity Assessment and an initial build. Retainers are scoped to the business, not sold off a shelf.