Management consulting · Fractional CTO
Technology strategy that survives contact with production.
Wild Nisse advises founders, executives, and boards on the technology decisions that are hardest to reverse. And when you need more than advice, we can define the architecture, hire the team, and see the plan through ourselves.
What we do
Three ways to work with us.
Advisory leadership is the heart of every engagement. When the plan calls for more than advice, the scope can grow to include hands-on work and extra delivery capacity.
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Management consulting
Senior, independent advice for the big technology decisions: strategy and roadmaps, technical due diligence, organization design, vendor selection, build versus buy. You get a recommendation you can defend to your board, along with the reasoning behind it.
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Fractional CTO
Executive technology leadership on a part-time, ongoing basis, at CTO or VP level: roadmaps, budgets, hiring plans, vendor relationships, and board reporting. The judgment of an experienced technology leader, sized to the stage your company is at.
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Hands-on execution & extra capacity
An optional extension of the advisory work, for when the plan needs building. Architecture definition, cloud and data platform modernization, hiring and onboarding engineering teams, delivery leadership, and additional capacity where your team is stretched. When the work is done, you keep working systems and a team that knows how to run them.
How we work
What an engagement looks like.
Every engagement follows the same five steps. It starts small and free of charge, and you always know what comes next.
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Free consultation
A working conversation about where you are and where you're stuck. We sketch a project overview together and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit. If we aren't, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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Initial assessment
Deep dives into the areas that matter for your situation, whether that's architecture, the engineering organization, delivery practice, cloud spend, or vendor contracts. You get a written picture of what's solid and what needs attention, in plain business terms.
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Engagement definition
Before any longer commitment, we agree on the shape of the work. Most engagements center on fractional leadership at CTO or VP level. Where it helps, the scope can also include hands-on work or extra delivery capacity. Either way, we write down the goals, cadence, decision rights, and how success will be measured while it's still easy to change.
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Advisory & execution
The advisory work runs on a steady cadence: time with the executive team, decisions worked through, roadmaps and hiring plans kept honest. When hands-on work is part of the scope, we're with the engineers too, shaping architecture or sitting in on interviews for a key hire.
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Handover & durable capability
Good engagements have an ending. Decisions are documented, owners are named, and the team we helped hire carries the work forward without us. If you never need to call us again, we did our job.
Results
Judgment earned at scale.
The advice comes from operating experience: platforms run at serious scale, teams built from scratch, and budgets owned along the way.
Capabilities
Comfortable in the boardroom and in the codebase.
Advisory
- Technology strategy & roadmaps
- Technical & vendor due diligence
- Organization design & operating models
- Build-versus-buy & vendor negotiation
- Budgets & board reporting
- Executive & leadership hiring
Hands-on
- Architecture definition & review
- Cloud & platform modernization
- Distributed systems & data platforms
- AI & ML integration
- Engineering team hiring & onboarding
- Delivery leadership & ways of working
Approach
How we think about the work.
Advice that ships
Every recommendation gets tested against reality before we make it: can this team build it, on this budget, in time to matter? If the answer is no, we keep working until we have one that holds up.
Clarity in ambiguity
The hardest moments in a technology organization are the ambiguous ones. We bring structure and calm, and we're willing to make the call with incomplete information and stand behind it.
People carry the plan
Architecture diagrams don't deliver software; teams do. A plan is only as durable as the people who run it, so we put as much care into hiring and org design as we put into systems.
Contact
Start with a free consultation.
A working session on whatever you're wrestling with. You'll leave with a project overview and a straight answer on whether we can help. It costs nothing, and we won't chase you afterwards.