Interim CTO, CPO or CAIO
Interim IT & AI leadership
An interim CTO, CPO or CAIO takes charge of your IT, aligns teams and vendors, sets priorities and answers for the result.
Where it gets stuck
Everyone sees part of the problem. Nobody owns the whole.
IT keeps getting more expensive and nobody knows why. Projects drag on and vendors point at each other.
One person joins who sees the whole picture and has the authority to decide.
- is how long the engagement usually lasts. It ends with a handover: your people take over the leadership.
- 6–12 months
Situations we step into
Two situations bring us in: a CTO left or a vendor failed, or nobody has ever owned IT.
Your CTO left or a vendor failed
We join within a month, take over systems and vendor relationships, and stabilize operations before changing anything. That is how it started at Invest in Slovakia and XPS Network.
IT has no leader setting a clear direction
Leadership is busy running the business, and nobody has capacity left to manage IT properly. We bring in an expert with the mandate to see it through and a team that carries out the changes safely. That is how we work for Collect, an engineering manufacturer and 24pay.
How it looks today
- Decisions wait, nobody takes them
- Vendors go unmanaged, invoices keep coming
- Priorities go to whoever pushes hardest
- IT costs come up only at budget time
What changes
- One person with a mandate to decide
- Vendors have a brief and answer for results
- Priorities follow what earns money
- You see IT costs continuously
Pick by the problem
One leader answers for the result; specialists carry out the changes.
Every role is backed by specialists who make the changes. The leader directs them.
Interim CTO
When costs rise and delivery stalls
Takes over architecture, vendors, security and budget. Decides what you stop paying for.
Interim CPO
When you keep building and customers cannot tell
Decides what to build and what to cut. Ties development to business goals.
Interim CAIO
When you want AI and do not know where to start
Finds the tasks where AI pays off and puts them into operation. Rejects the rest. Not an adviser – a person accountable for the result.
How the engagement runs
It starts within a month and ends when your people take over
Start within a month. 1–2 days a week or full-time. It ends with a handover.
- Within a month
You choose the role and the leader starts
We pick the role based on what slows you down most. The leader starts without a hiring process.
- First 4–8 weeks
The leader takes over responsibility
Puts priorities in order and says what stops. The output is a map of IT, vendors and processes, with numbers.
- Months 2–12
Changes are carried out
The leader assigns work to specialists and your vendors and makes sure the changes get finished.
- At the end
Your people take over the leadership
We hand over the documentation, train them and leave.
The engagement is time-limited from day one.
We tell you which role will help and where it starts.
The other services
One leader first. The other services follow when the map points to them.
Process mapping & optimization
Suspect that time and money are slipping through your fingers, but not sure where? We go through your processes step by step and show you where you are losing money for no reason.
One department in 2–3 weeks · the whole order-to-cash flow in 4–8 weeks
AI agents & automation
A routine eats hours every day. We build an agent that takes it over and connects to the software you already use.
First working automation live in 2–4 weeks · then you decide whether to continue
Custom software development
You need an e-shop, a portal or a mobile app. We bring the team that builds it from sketch to launch.
Analysis before the contract · start within a week of signing · a milestone is one month and you pay per milestone
Proof
All three of these companies handed us the CTO role.
Since 202624pay
Interim CTO and CPO, hybrid teamWe took over engineering and product leadership. After a two-month analysis, two of our engineers work on the client's team; IT has a plan everyone can see.
Since 2023Ering (Runder)
Interim CTO, team of fourWe took over a half-finished system after the vendor left. An interim CTO runs all IT: no SEO or revenue lost, expansion to Czechia and Hungary, 3× the size.
Invest in Slovakia
Interim CTO and a dedicated teamWhen the CTO left we took over all development. Mangopay integration under EU 2020/1503 averted a shutdown; redesign and back-office rewrite took 3–4 months.