Embed
Inside your team, from day one.
For companies scaling faster than their leadership bench, or covering a gap between hires, or needing senior engineers integrated into an existing team. We embed as a member of the org, not a supplier at arm's length, and we hand over cleanly when the work is done.
Every embed engagement we run
Retainer where the cadence fits, custom where it needs to.
Six engagement shapes, from a fractional Director of Engineering on a monthly retainer to an interim CTO holding the seat during a leadership transition. Plus two free tools for teams doing the work themselves.
PAID · $12K TO $25K / MO
Fractional Engineering Leadership
A Director of Engineering inside your company, fractionally. Hiring, culture, technical strategy, delivery practices. The remit is full, the cadence is flexed to what you actually need each week.
3-month minimum
Learn morePAID · RETAINER
Fractional CTO and Advisory
Strategic tech leadership at a lower cadence. For companies where the technical decisions are big and infrequent, and you want a senior voice in the room without a full fractional engagement.
Monthly retainer
Learn morePAID · CUSTOM
Embedded Engineering Teams
Senior engineers embedded in your team, shipping alongside your people. Not staff aug at day rates. Small, senior, and integrated into your standups, your code review, your on-call. Sized to what the roadmap actually needs.
Sized per engagement
Talk to TomPAID · CUSTOM
Interim CTO or CDO
Full-time coverage during a leadership gap. Fundraise, acquisition, sudden departure, or the run-up to hiring a permanent leader. We hold the seat, keep the team shipping, and hand over cleanly.
3 to 6 months typical
Talk to TomFREE · TOOL
90-Day Playbook
A structured onboarding playbook for a new engineering leader. Week-by-week milestones, stakeholder maps, and the questions to ask before you start changing anything.
Instant access
Use itFREE · TOOL
Team Assessment
A five-capability self-score of your engineering org. Delivery, quality, technical strategy, people, and platform. Get a readout that shows where a new leader should focus in week one.
15 minutes
Use itHow an embed runs
Integrated week one, handed over cleanly.
Step 01
Book a call
A conversation about the shape of the gap. Interim coverage, fractional leadership, an embedded team, or advisory. We say honestly which one fits and why.
Step 02
Agreement on paper
A short written agreement covering scope, cadence, and how success looks. Fractional engagements have a three-month minimum so the work has time to compound.
Step 03
Integrated from week one
In your standups, your Slack, your code review, your one-to-ones. Treated as a senior member of the team, not a supplier at arm’s length.
Step 04
Handover, or continuation
Every embed ends with a written handover of what was changed and why. Many convert into a lighter advisory retainer once the acute phase is done.
Related work
Teams we've shipped alongside.
Princeton University
The Accelerator
Embedded engineering leadership that collapsed research timelines from a year to three months, and left behind a platform Princeton continues to run.
Read case studyCompliance / Global advisory (NDA)
Sanctions-Compliance Platform
Thirty embedded engineers, four product surfaces, one codebase. Fractional leadership plus a full delivery team, integrated at every level.
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Pharma / MMIT
MMIT
Embedded alongside MMIT's data team to move them off manual collection and onto autonomous, scalable extraction on Databricks.
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