Insights, technical leadership, and notes from the Fractonal CTO team.
Shadow IT was a skirmish. Shadow AI is a different problem at a different scale. Data from 2025 shows that 60 to 80 percent of knowledge workers use generative AI weekly—and many hide it from management.
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From the desk of a Fractional CTO who’s seen it all
I’ve walked into more engineering teams than I can count, and there’s a pattern I see repeatedly: brilliant engineers surrounded by a Frankenstein’s monster of tools, frameworks, and services that seemed like good ideas at the time. The symptoms are always the same—slow deployments, mounting technical debt, frustrated developers, and a growing sense that the technology is working against the business rather than for it.
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When people hear “CTO,” they often imagine someone in a hoodie architecting billion-dollar apps or presenting to VCs. But for startups and small-to-mid-sized businesses, the reality is much more nuanced—and increasingly, Fractional CTOs are filling that gap.
I’m a Fractional CTO. That means I serve as a part-time, contract-based Chief Technology Officer for multiple organizations—usually those too small for a full-time CTO but too complex to go without strategic tech leadership.
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