Fractional CTO & Modernization Services: Bridging Strategy and Technology
Fractional CTO & Modernization Services
Escape tech debt. Build fast. Lead with architecture. Our embedded CTOs don't just advise — they execute. We help teams unblock delivery, modernize platforms, and build AI-ready systems without vendor bloat or theory decks.
Detailed Fractional CTO Benefits & Impact
Why Fractional Works: Strategy Meets Execution
Our fractional CTOs deliver 90%+ strategic execution at ~60% of full-time costs, aligning vision with hands-on delivery.
Save ~40% with near-equivalent impact
* Source: Gartner & Forrester CIO Strategy Insights (2024)
Our Services
Fractional CTO & Strategic Advisory
What We Do: Embed with your team to align strategy and execution at 60% of full-time costs.
Ideal For: CTOs and data leaders tackling complexity, slowdowns, or scaling.
Ideal for: CTOs and data leaders navigating platform complexity, delivery slowdowns, or organizational scaling.
How It Works:
- Mentor teams to shift mindsets and avoid past mistakes.
- Deliver 90%+ strategic coverage with hands-on leadership.
- Not a drive-by advisory—we stay until it sticks.
📅 Work With Brian
Tech Debt Escape & Platform Simplification
What We Do: Strip away legacy clutter to restore delivery velocity in 2–4 weeks. Key Outcomes:
- Eliminate overbuilt abstractions and bottlenecks.
- Rationalize stacks for clarity and speed.
- 40% faster time to trusted data.
Process: Rapid teardown, readiness assessment, and rebuild sprints.
Includes: rapid 2–4 week teardown & readiness assessments
Explore Our Framework →
Scalable Architecture
What We Do: Design lean, governable systems that evolve without fragility. Key Features:
We lead with architecture—not tools.
- Composable services with clear boundaries and observability.
- Governance and DataOps built in, not bolted on.
- AI-ready and cloud-native for regulated or fast-moving industries.
Informed: by years of real-world delivery across regulated and fast-moving industries
Powered By Our Modernization Framework
Services are powered by a hands-on framework that prioritizes execution.
Explore Our Framework →Engagement Models: Tailored for Impact
Our models bridge strategy and execution to deliver measurable results.
- Assessment (Fixed Price): Tech debt audit and modernization roadmap in 2–4 weeks.
- Fix & Simplify (Project-Based): Rebuild platforms for 40% faster delivery.
- Fractional CTO (Retainer): Embedded leadership for 90%+ strategic impact at 60% cost.
Our legacy informs our approach. Discover how 20+ years of metadata innovation shape our fractional CTO services. Explore Our History
What We Deliver
- Embedded Strategy: Architecture, platform, and data modernization owned end-to-end
- Modernization Accelerators: Rebuild platforms for 40% faster delivery.
- Architecture Refactoring: Simplify bloated stacks, eliminate fragile dependencies, clarify future-state
- Mentorship Through the Shift: Coach teams through the mindset change—from legacy thinking to lean, governed, modern delivery
- Governance-Embedded Design: Trust, access, and quality are designed in—not managed after the fact
Business Outcomes That Matter
- $2M+ saved in compliance remediation
- 40% faster time to trusted data
- 25% reduction in delivery cycles
- Visible, measurable modernization momentum—within weeks
Mastering Streaming Media Metadata & Data Contracts
"InfoLibrarian’s fractional CTOs helped us build the platform capabilities needed to wrangle and model real-time streaming media metadata, establishing robust data contracts. Their hands-on expertise ensured data quality and consistency across complex pipelines, enabling seamless platform launches and audience experiences."
— Senior Director, Data Strategy, A&E Television Networks
Escaping Big Data Debt: 30,000 Models, One Modernization Blueprint
"Facing over 30,000 data models in a complex big data ecosystem, our teams were overwhelmed. InfoLibrarian’s fractional CTOs, led by Brian Brewer, helped us cut through the chaos, delivering clarity, structure, and modernization patterns that laid a scalable foundation, enabling fast delivery with full control."
— Senior Data Architect, Sabre Holdings
Accelerating Governed Data Platforms on AWS
"For enterprise clients building sophisticated, governed data platforms on AWS, the flexible frameworks and modernization patterns developed by Brian Brewer have been instrumental. These approaches helped our teams deliver compliance, accelerate time-to-value, and improve metadata visibility across complex cloud architectures—enabling customers to confidently scale their data and AI initiatives."
— Principal Cloud Architect, Award Winning AWS Cloud Consultancy
Specialized Services
Enhance your modernization with targeted add-ons.
- AI Readiness Audits: Assess metadata, lineage, and governance for MLOps readiness.
- Governance-in-Flow™ Enablement: Embed governance into workflows, not catalogs.
- Data Product Playbooks:Define roles, ownership,data stewardship, and lifecycle by domain.
- Metadata Teardown Workshops:2-week sprints to streamline metadata for operations.
- Platform Rescue for Growth Teams:Fix fragile infra and bad vendor choices fast.
