Keep an architect in the room.
The continuity a project engagement cannot give you: someone your engineers escalate to, who holds the design decisions and keeps the governance alive between builds.
The decisions keep coming, and nobody senior has time to make them.
- Discipline
- Ongoing Advisory
- Engagements
- 01
- Typically bought by
- CTO · CIO · Transformation leadership
- Anchors
- £5,000/month
Set every figure below against the build it protects — and against paying for that build a second time. That comparison is the whole argument for hiring an architect, and it is why the fees are published rather than quoted on request.
Fractional AI Architect
Ongoing architecture authority, governance and design support.
- Architecture decisions queuing behind people who do not have time to make them.
- A governance framework that will decay without someone operating it.
- Scale-ups needing enterprise-grade architecture before they can hire for it.
A recurring monthly loop: decisions arrive from delivery teams, are made and recorded in an architecture decision record, reviewed at the architecture forum, and fed back to the teams, with a quarterly position update to leadership.
- 01Agreed monthly days with named availability
- 02Running architecture decision record
- 03Standing review and forum attendance
- 04Quarterly architecture and risk position update
- 01Architecture decisions made, recorded and defended
- 02Design review of in-flight work
- 03Architecture and governance forum attendance
- 04Risk assessments as new use cases arrive
- 05Vendor and model evaluation support
- 06Engineering escalation route and mentoring
- 07Roadmap and prioritisation input
Tell us what you are building, or what you have to defend.
A scoping conversation ends with a written view of the engagement, its deliverables, its duration and its fee. No obligation on either side.