Strategic Clarity & Vision
Clear roadmaps aligned to business goals; we translate trends into actionable strategy.
Technology Leadership
Your North Star for Strategic Tech Leadership.
On-demand CTO-level leadership for growing businesses—strategic technology direction that drives innovation and scalability without the overhead of a full-time CTO.
Why URSA
Where URSA adds clarity
Benefits-led engagements aligned to the outcomes your board expects.
Expertise & Trust
Seasoned CTO-level leadership across data, AI, and cloud with a track record of delivery.
Flexible Partnership
Right-sized fractional engagement from hourly advice to retainers.
Innovation & Growth Focus
Digital transformation and scalable architectures that enable 100× growth.
Our Services
Strategic technology leadership—delivered fractionally.
Engage URSA for the critical initiatives that demand seasoned, CTO-level judgment without the fixed cost.
Digital Transformation
Legacy processes create friction that slows growth and obscures opportunity. We map your current workflows, prioritise initiatives by business impact, and orchestrate modernisation through lean, iterative delivery cycles. The result is efficiency gains you can measure, improved customer experience, and tangible ROI within quarters—not years. Digital transformation becomes a strategic advantage rather than a disruptive overhaul.
Data & Machine Learning Strategy
When decisions suffer from incomplete, inconsistent, or inaccessible data, competitive advantage erodes quickly. We establish robust data foundations, implement governance that enables rather than constrains, and identify pragmatic machine learning use-cases tied to actual business outcomes. The path forward delivers faster, data-driven decisions at every level and ML implementations that demonstrably move your key performance indicators.
Cloud Architecture & DevOps
Instability and slow release cycles block momentum when your market demands speed and reliability. We design cloud architectures that are both resilient and cost-aware, then automate delivery pipelines to eliminate bottlenecks and manual risk. Your teams gain the confidence of 99.9%+ uptime targets while achieving materially faster deployments—the foundation for sustained competitive velocity.
Enterprise IT Design
Tool sprawl and brittle integrations compound technical debt and increase operational risk with every quarter. We rationalise your technology stack, design secure integrations that actually communicate, and establish standardised patterns that scale as you grow. The outcome is lower risk exposure, clearer ownership across teams, and technology roadmaps that align with business strategy rather than fighting it.
Engagement Models
Choose the partnership that matches your moment.
Each model is built around measurable outcomes and designed to scale with your needs—from rapid diagnostics to embedded executive leadership.
Strategy Intensive
When you need rapid clarity on technology and product risk—whether before a board meeting, fundraising round, or strategic pivot—this two-week engagement delivers actionable intelligence. Through stakeholder interviews, architecture reviews, and hands-on assessment, we identify the critical paths forward and quantify the technical debt that matters. You'll receive a prioritised 90-day action plan tied directly to business metrics, complete with enablement sessions for the team that will execute it.
Fractional CTO Retainer
As your team scales beyond the capacity of current leadership, decisions stall and firefighting becomes the norm. This embedded executive engagement provides consistent CTO-level guidance each week—roadmap stewardship, engineering ceremonies, board preparation, and leadership coaching. The result is predictable delivery, crisp communication with stakeholders, and a living operating model that evolves with your business. You gain the strategic oversight of a full-time CTO without the fixed cost or lengthy recruitment process.
Initiative Leadership (Outcome-Based)
High-stakes initiatives demand accountable ownership but adding permanent headcount isn't always the answer. This value-based engagement aligns scope to measurable outcomes and delivers results through your existing teams and trusted partners. We take ownership of the initiative from planning through execution, with built-in guardrails, comprehensive documentation, and knowledge transfer baked into every phase. The project is delivered on terms that tie our success directly to yours.
Advisory Subscription
Product and engineering leaders often need an experienced sounding board for strategic decisions but don't require full-time executive presence. This subscription model provides virtual office hours, rapid asynchronous reviews, and curated resources mapped to your current priorities. Whether you're evaluating architecture decisions, planning team expansions, or navigating vendor selections, you'll get faster, better-aligned decisions without the overhead of meetings or waiting on availability.
Strategic Partnerships
For the right long-term opportunities, we're open to partnership structures that align our success with yours. When goals, values, and vision converge, selective equity or success-fee arrangements ensure we're invested in the upside alongside you. This model creates shared accountability for growth milestones and strategic outcomes, with incentives that reflect genuine partnership rather than transactional engagement. We reserve this approach for companies where we see potential for sustained, transformative impact.
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