Fractional CTO for Legal Services

A non-technical founder making architecture and hiring decisions alone is the most expensive gap in an early company. This role closes it without a full-time salary and equity.

In legal services, privilege and confidentiality mean data handling is scrutinised more than model performance. That single fact reshapes how fractional cto has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.

The workload we are most often asked to take on first is billing narrative drafting, usually integrated against billing systems. Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners.

Multi-model by default, so a provider outage is a routing decision rather than an incident. We hand over with runbooks, tests and a team that knows how it works, not a dependency.