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Diagnosis

Capability · Leadership or expertise

You're missing the seniority. Your operation doesn't justify a full-time hire.

Executives (CTO, CIO) or senior specialists (UX, DevOps, QA, AI, DBA, SRE) working a few hours a week or a month, inside your operation.

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When it makes sense

When does Fractional make sense?

  • The company needs technical leadership for a cycle, not forever
  • The team is missing one specific skill, and wouldn't use it full-time
  • The cost of a full-time C-level hire doesn't hold up at this point
  • The team is junior to mid-level and needs someone senior close at hand

When it doesn't

When is Fractional the wrong answer?

  • The need is continuous execution and volume. That's Staff Augmentation
  • The role is permanent and strategic, and the budget is approved. That's Hunting
  • The skill is already on the team but goes unused for lack of mandate or time. That's a governance problem, not a talent problem

Method

We start with the context. Not with the role

  1. Understanding

    A real conversation about the problem. The right questions change the diagnosis.

  2. Diagnosis

    Which capability is missing: advice, leadership, expertise or execution.

  3. Composition

    The right format: for what, who, for how long.

  4. Curation and integration

    Selection by context, technical and cultural, plus support at the start of the engagement.

  5. Staying close

    We stay close to the client and to the professional, adjusting the composition as the relationship evolves.

01–03 · before any proposal

04–05 · once the engagement starts

  • Predictabilityfor your company
  • Carefor every professional
  • Sustainabilityof the relationship

How it starts

How do the diagnosis and the engagement begin?

A diagnosis of the capability you're missing, then the design of the engagement: how many hours, for what, for how long.

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Other models

The right capability may be a different one

Advice

Tech Advisory

People who have led technology at scale, as a second opinion on the decisions you can't get wrong.

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Execution

Staff Augmentation

Professionals and squads embedded in your operation, including teams that use AI to amplify delivery.

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Delivery

Squad as a Service

You hand over the mission and we deliver it, with the squad assembled and run by Tessa.

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Hiring

Hunting

Search plus technical and behavioral assessment, with the context understood before the job description.

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