Fractional CTO
I’m the CTO you need — a day or two a week.
I’m Duncan Gardiner. I help founders and scale-ups make sound technology decisions, build teams that ship, and turn a codebase into an asset rather than a liability.
- 15+
- Years in Technical Leadership
- 20+
- Multidisciplinary Teams Guided from Strategy to Delivery
- £M+
- Executive Advisor on Multi-Million Pound Technology Programmes
- 100+
- Complex Client Engagements Successfully Delivered
In my experience most early teams don’t need a full-time CTO. They need someone who has done it before to steer the important decisions, ask the awkward questions, and stay accountable for how it turns out.
How I help
Technical leadership
I act as your CTO a day or two a week — strategy, architecture and the hard calls, without a full-time hire.
Team & delivery
I set up how your engineers work: hiring, process, delivery cadence and the standards that keep quality high as you grow.
Pragmatic AI
I put AI to work where it genuinely earns its place, and I’m honest about where it doesn’t — cost, risk and maintenance included.
Let’s find out if I’m the right fit.
Tell me where you are and what’s in the way. If I’m not the right person for it, I’ll tell you that too — and usually point you at who is.