Fractional CTO Advisory
Senior technology leadership without the cost or commitment of a full-time executive.
SullySoft provides fractional CTO and technical advisory services for startups, founders, and growing businesses that need experienced guidance across technology strategy, architecture, cybersecurity, software delivery, automation, and technical decision-making.
What Changes
What Senior Technology Leadership Delivers
Fractional CTO engagements help growing businesses move from reactive to strategic across the areas that matter most.
Founder-led technical decisions
Clear technology strategy and roadmap
Manual, repetitive operations
Automated, reliable workflows
Ad hoc, inconsistent development
Structured, secure software delivery
Cloud sprawl and unmanaged risk
Secure, well-managed cloud environment
Scope
What Engagements May Include
Engagements are tailored to your priorities. The areas below represent common fractional CTO scope — not every engagement covers all of them.
Technology Strategy & Roadmap
Help developing a practical roadmap aligned to business goals, budget, and team capacity.
Architecture & Cloud Guidance
Review and advisory support for system design, cloud platform decisions, and infrastructure direction.
Cybersecurity & Risk Oversight
Oversight and prioritization of security risk across cloud, identity, and software environments.
Software Delivery & DevSecOps
Guidance on delivery practices, CI/CD pipelines, code quality, and embedding security into development workflows.
Vendor & Platform Evaluation
Help evaluating vendors, contractors, platforms, and tools before making commitments.
Automation & Operational Improvement
Identifying and planning automation opportunities that reduce manual work and improve efficiency.
Technical Due Diligence
Assessment and review support for technology decisions, partnerships, or outsourced development engagements.
Executive & Board-Level Reporting
Clear, business-level technology reporting for founders, executives, investors, or board members.
Ongoing Advisory & Decision Support
A consistent point of contact for technology questions, trade-off reviews, and decision support throughout the engagement.
Ways to Engage
Structured for Your Level of Need
Fractional engagements are structured as monthly commitments with a defined level of access, meeting cadence, and advisory or implementation support. Most engagements begin with a 3-month initial term — enough time to understand your business, assess priorities, build a practical roadmap, and support meaningful progress.
Advisory Retainer
For founders and business leaders who need a senior technical sounding board for roadmap, architecture, security, vendor, and technology decisions.
Typical Commitment
5 – 8 hours per month
Embedded Fractional CTO
For organizations that need regular technology leadership, roadmap ownership, vendor oversight, and delivery guidance without hiring a full-time executive.
Typical Commitment
10 – 20 hours per month
Fractional CTO + Implementation
For organizations that need both strategic leadership and hands-on execution support across security, automation, cloud, DevSecOps, or software initiatives.
Typical Commitment
25 – 40 hours per month
Engagements are flexible, but structured. The right cadence, scope, and level of support are defined based on your priorities, timeline, and internal team capacity.
Deliverables
Typical Outputs From Each Engagement
Technology roadmap
Architecture recommendations
Risk and priority summary
Vendor and tool recommendations
Security improvement plan
Automation opportunity backlog
Monthly executive update
30/60/90-day action plan
Best Fit
A Strong Fit When
- check_circle You are a founder without a full-time CTO but need experienced technology direction
- check_circle Your startup is preparing to build, scale, or modernize its technology environment
- check_circle Your business has growing technology complexity that needs senior oversight
- check_circle You manage vendors, contractors, or outsourced developers and need a technical point of accountability
- check_circle You need senior technology guidance without the overhead of a full-time executive hire
Mike Sullivan
Fractional CTO · CISSP
With more than 25 years of experience across software engineering, enterprise architecture, cloud security, and automation, I help founders and growing organizations make better technology decisions, reduce risk, and build a stronger foundation for the future.
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There is no obligation. A short conversation is all it takes to understand whether a fractional CTO engagement is the right fit for your business and what that could look like.
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