# The Human CTO > The Human CTO is the UK practice of Rob Fawcett: fractional CTO, technology leader coaching and AI strategy design for organisations that want clarity, not another consultancy. Twenty years leading IT, data, software, product and change in regulated environments. Tagline: Technology. Translated. Humanly. The three services are: (1) Fractional CTO, (2) Technology Leader Coach, (3) AI Strategy Designer. Based in the UK and serving UK organisations first. The Human CTO Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 16503347. Registered office: 3rd Floor, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE. Contact: info@thehumancto.co.uk, +44 7880 072460. Online call booking: https://thehumancto.co.uk/book-a-call/ ## Core pages - [Fractional CTO](https://thehumancto.co.uk/fractional-cto/): Fractional CTO for UK scale-ups and regulated organisations: embedded technology leadership, architecture, due diligence and recovery, from £2.8k a month. - [Technology Leader Coach](https://thehumancto.co.uk/technology-leader-coach/): One-to-one coaching for UK CTOs, IT directors and new technology leaders: the first hundred days, the seat itself, and leading in an AI world. - [AI Strategy Designer](https://thehumancto.co.uk/ai-strategy-designer/): AI strategy design for UK organisations: use case prioritisation, governance and assurance, people and adoption, and a plan the board can read and deploy safely. - [About Rob Fawcett and The Human CTO](https://thehumancto.co.uk/about/): who Rob is, the values, and the partners - [How I work](https://thehumancto.co.uk/how-i-work/): plain language, defined products, everything drawn back to you - [Book a call](https://thehumancto.co.uk/book-a-call/): a thirty minute online call, no pitch deck ## Fractional CTO products and prices - Embedded Fractional CTO: Senior technology leadership in your leadership team, part time. Price: From £2.8k a month. - Enterprise Architecture Design: The target architecture and the roadmap to reach it. Price: From £9.5k. - Technology Target Operating Model: How technology should be organised to deliver the strategy. Price: From £8.5k. - Technology Due Diligence: Buy-side or sell-side technology diligence for PE and M&A. Price: From £6.5k. - Scale-to-Sell Readiness: Getting the technology estate investor-grade before a raise or an exit. Price: From £12k. - Programme Assurance and Recovery: Independent oversight, or a steady hand on a programme that has drifted. Price: From £4k a month. ## Technology Leader Coach products and prices - The Maturity Read: Ninety minutes against the Role Maturity Curve, with a written read-back afterwards. Price: From £450. - The Hundred Days: Fortnightly coaching across the first hundred days in a new seat. Price: From £3.5k. - The Seat: Six months alongside a leader already in post. Price: From £6.5k. - The Cohort: Twelve weeks with eight to ten peers stepping up to executive level or going fractional. Price: From £1.8k a seat. - On Call: The line stays open: a session a month, and access when something lands badly. Price: From £750 a month. - Leading in an AI World: A half day for executive teams on leading people and decisions in an AI-governed world. Price: From £1.8k. ## AI Strategy Designer products and prices - Navigator: AI strategy, governance and use case readiness, in weeks, with a result the board can act on. Price: From £8.5k. - Navigator Lite: The four-day version for smaller organisations. Price: From £6k. - Compass: My AI strategy programme for large enterprises, delivered in partnership with Hello AI Collective. Price: Priced per programme. - Guardian: AI policy and governance framework, tiered to fit. Price: From £2.2k. - Steward: Embedded AI compliance and ongoing oversight. Price: From £1.5k a month. - Regulatory Horizon: A quarterly regulatory briefing written for your organisation, in plain English. Price: From £800 a quarter. ## Case studies (clients anonymised, facts kept) - [AI readiness and use case strategy for a global medical technology manufacturer](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=67): 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. - [An AI governance framework for a regulated financial services firm](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=68): 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. - [From most senior engineer to the exec conversation in a hundred days](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=69): 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. - [Six months alongside a leader whose board had stopped listening](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=70): 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. - [Embedded fractional CTO for a national ombudsman service](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=71): 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. - [Programme assurance and recovery for a stalled case-management replatform](https://thehumancto.co.uk/?p=72): 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. ## Insights - [The Human CTO partners with Nviron in the UK](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/the-human-cto-partners-with-nviron-in-the-uk/): The Human CTO partners with Nviron to bring AI advisory to more UK organisations. - [Every client now has their own space: THCTO client portal is live](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/every-client-now-has-their-own-space-thcto-client-portal-is-live/): Some of the best work we do never makes it onto a public website, and it should not. Proposals, plans and working documents now live in one private place per client. - [Big Room, Small Lens](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/014-big-room-small-lens/): The latest in the leadership series. - [When Belief Is the Only Business Plan That Holds](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/013-when-belief-is-the-only-business-plan-that-holds/): On conviction, and what it carries when the plan runs out. - [When AI Reveals Leadership Stagnation](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/012-when-ai-reveals-leadership-stagnation/): How hesitation at the top quietly shapes everything beneath it. - [When Time and Energy Run Out (But Vision Doesn’t)](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/011-when-time-and-energy-run-out-but-vision-doesnt/): The breaking point, and what is left when it passes. - [Leading with Clarity in an Age of AI Cybersecurity](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/010-leading-with-clarity-in-an-age-of-ai-cybersecurity/): Whether you lead a tech team or a sales team, cybersecurity in the AI era is now a leadership responsibility. - [The True Cost of Leadership Isn’t Cost-Cutting](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/009-the-true-cost-of-leadership-isnt-cost-cutting/): Cost. What a word. Right up there with compliance and capacity in the list of conversation killers. - [What ‘Translation’ Really Means](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/008-what-translation-really-means/): A reply to one of the questions I have been answering in the background, answered here instead. - [The Architecture of Real Product Success](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/007-the-architecture-of-real-product-success/): What sits underneath a product that actually lands. - [Product Leadership Misunderstood, Everything Slows Down](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/006-product-leadership-misunderstood-everything-slows-down/): When the organisation does not understand product leadership, every decision takes longer. - [From Dashboards to Decisions](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/005-from-dashboards-to-decisions/): Data is only useful at the moment a decision gets made. - [AI Is Easy. Data Is Still Hard (Or Is It?) Let Me Explain](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/004-ai-is-easy-data-is-still-hard-or-is-it-let-me-explain/): Taking leadership to another level when AI is involved. - [A Deep Reflection on the Unseen Toll of Being an IT Director](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/a-deep-reflection-on-the-unseen-toll-of-being-an-it-director/): Not theory. Not frameworks, delivery models or roadmaps. The part nobody talks about. - [How Strategic IT Leadership Survives Delivery and Execution](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/how-strategic-it-leadership-survives-delivery-and-execution/): Great ideas are common. Consistent, precise execution is rare. - [What It Really Means To Be A Strategic IT Director In 2025](https://thehumancto.co.uk/insights/what-it-really-means-to-be-a-strategic-it-director-in-2025/): Where the series began: the job, as it actually is. ## Partners - Nviron (Managed IT and cloud partner): Three decades looking after other people's IT, UK-wide: SMEs, enterprises and the public sector. Microsoft Solutions Partner, with a real service desk, cloud, network and security team. Their strapline is "Technical depth, human approach", which is the reason this partnership works. How we work together. Nviron's customers get my full AI advisory catalogue, Navigator included, through the team they already trust. My clients get engineering depth behind the recommendations: Nviron stand them up, support them and keep them running. nviron.co.uk - Picard (Delivery partner): The delivery platform built on the H.U.M.A.N Framework, created by my friend Kyle Maiden, founder of ProjIQ and Human Project Delivery. It gives a programme one honest view of RAG status, risks, milestones, stakeholders and team welfare. How we work together. Kyle and I partner on large-scale transformation and change. Picard is the delivery tool, but it is more than that: his framework and delivery practice sit alongside my technology, AI and governance leadership. picard.online - SThree (Talent and consulting network): A specialist STEM talent and consulting business, trading in the UK through brands including Computer Futures. How we work together. I work with them where senior technology leadership helps their clients move faster. sthree.com - Quantisys (Engineering partner): The engineering company I co-founded with Gareth, for anything that needs building: AI and intelligent systems, products and platforms, data and integration. How we work together. The advice and the build come from the same table, so nothing is lost in the handover. Quantisys then supports what we build and keeps it running. quantisys.co.uk - Hello AI Collective (AI collective partner): A collective of AI practitioners working with large enterprises across the UK, and the reason a big organisation can get strategy, delivery and governance in one conversation. How we work together. I provide the fractional CTO and AI compliance side of the Collective's offer. Compass, my enterprise AI strategy programme, is delivered with them through joint IP. hello-ai.co.uk ## Optional - [Full text for AI assistants](https://thehumancto.co.uk/llms-full.txt) - [Sitemap](https://thehumancto.co.uk/wp-sitemap.xml) - [Client and partner login](https://thehumancto.co.uk/portal-login/)