// AUGMENTED CTO
The embedded CTO function for your portfolio.
Your portcos are running 2024 engineering cost structures into 2026 acquirers. Every quarter you don't restructure is a multiple-point haircut at exit. We are the operator layer that fixes it.
ONE SENIOR OPERATOR + AI PER PORTCO. FIXED PRICE. PROGRAMME ECONOMICS FROM £500K / YR.
// WHY NOW
The 2026 buyer benchmarks against post-restructure portcos. Q1 2026: ~80,000 tech layoffs, ~50% AI-driven. Meta cut 8,000 in April; Microsoft ran its first-ever buyout. Read the cited evidence →
// THE MODEL
One senior. Built like a team. Applied across your portfolio.
Senior Operator
Not a fractional retainer. Not an agency. A senior CTO with AI-native delivery, embedded into your portco — judgment, code and shipping in one person.
Weeks to Ship
Fixed timelines, fixed price. Production-grade V1 in weeks, not quarters. The cadence your LPs are now asking your portcos to hit.
Cost Compression
Typical engagement removes a £2-10M/yr engineering line and replaces it with a £250-500k fixed-price engagement. Same output, lower burn, faster decisions.
// WHO WE SERVE
Venture Builders / PE
Your portcos are running 2024 engineering cost structures into 2026 acquirers. Every quarter you don’t restructure is a multiple-point haircut at exit.
One senior operator + AI per portco. Diligence £25k+. Turnaround £35–250k. Programme £500k–1.5M / yr.
Founders / Portcos
Prototype code can’t pass DD, can’t scale, can’t onboard a real team. Your moat is no longer code volume — it’s how fast you reach defensible scale.
Rebuild your product into a fundable, scalable asset. Or ship a new AI-native product in one quarter. Fixed price.
// WHAT WE DELIVER
The work that actually drives multiples.
Six outcomes. Fixed price. One quarter, not one year.
Ship a new portco V1 in 6 weeks
From kickoff to a deployed product real users can pay for. Fixed fee. No standups, no sprints, no agency overhead.
Replace a 12-person team with a senior operator
Same shipped output. ~30% of the cost base. Removes the coordination layer that consumed the rest.
Diligence a portco before the next markdown
Codebase health, team capability, AI readiness, restructuring cost. £25k. We tell you which portcos to fix first.
Restructure an engineering org pre-exit
Re-shape a bloated eng org into AI-native pods before the next round or sale. Fixed fee, 8–12 weeks.
Standardise across the cohort
One playbook — diligence, build, turnaround — applied across every portco. One operating system, not bespoke consulting each time.
Add a defensible AI line to a mature portco
Production AI inside the perimeter, not throwaway prototypes. Customer-facing or internal productivity. £75–250k, 6–12 weeks.
The Brass Ball Guarantee
If we don't deliver a production-ready codebase that passes an independent security audit within the agreed timeline, we'll make it right — or you don't pay the final milestone. Full terms in our service agreement.
Bring us your portfolio.
A 30-minute briefing. We map the engineering surface area across your portcos and show where embedded CTO leverage compounds first. NDA-ready, no sales pitch.