The Human CTO

Case studies

Real outcomes. Not case study theatre.

Every engagement delivers something tangible. Filter by the door the client came through. Clients are anonymised unless they have asked to be named.

AI Strategy DesignerGlobal medical technology manufacturer

AI readiness and use case strategy for a global medical technology manufacturer

Twelve business units, forty candidate AI ideas, one board that wanted a number. ARIA scored every idea; six were funded, with a GRACE governance baseline the compliance team could run.

6funded use cases from forty
AI Strategy DesignerRegulated financial services firm

An AI governance framework for a regulated financial services firm

A lender had let AI into credit and collections faster than its policies could follow. Consumer Duty, the FCA and the EU AI Act all pointed at the gap. Five weeks closed it, and the board approved it in one meeting.

1board meeting to approval
Technology Leader CoachFirst-time CTO, regulated fintech

From most senior engineer to the exec conversation in a hundred days

The Hundred Days: a new CTO with the regulator's name on them under SM&CR. Identity, influence and judgement, fortnightly, until the board treated them as a peer.

100days to a seat the board listens to
Technology Leader CoachTechnology Director, professional services

Six months alongside a leader whose board had stopped listening

The Seat: a cost centre in the board's eyes, a roadmap that never reached the money, and a regulatory agenda the board kept deferring. Three decisions won, one restructure done without losing anyone.

3board decisions won in six months
Fractional CTONational ombudsman service

Embedded fractional CTO for a national ombudsman service

Two days a month in the leadership team of a public-interest body: strategy, a security and data baseline, a supplier brought to heel and a case-management replacement its own people specified.

12months embedded, then handed over
Fractional CTOPublic sector body

Programme assurance and recovery for a stalled case-management replatform

Red on every report, green in every supplier meeting. One honest baseline, three releases instead of one, and a rhythm the supplier could keep. Red to green in three months.

3months from red to green

Clients are anonymised. The facts are kept.

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