Develop your advantage
Fractional CTO leadership, custom software, and AI automation for companies that need senior judgment now — not a twelve-month search and a seven-figure org chart.
The gap
You are past the point where IT is one person who is good with computers. You are not yet at the point where a full-time CTO is a defensible line item. In between, decisions still have to get made — about systems, spend, security, vendors, and what to build versus buy.
Devantas takes that seat. We bring senior technology leadership on a fraction of a schedule, and we bring the team to execute what we recommend — so strategy and delivery do not live in two different invoices.
01 — Services
Leadership without delivery is a slide deck. Delivery without leadership is a pile of software nobody owns. We do both, with the same people accountable for both.
A CTO or CIO on your leadership team for the hours each month you actually need one — with the authority and the accountability that title implies.
Automation that removes real hours from real processes — with a clear, documented answer about where your data goes.
Software shaped around the workflow you actually run, instead of the one your current vendor happens to support.
Fractional CTO / CIO retainers
Pick the number of hours a month the seat gets. Every package starts with the same assessment you own outright, and moves from advice to ownership to delivery as the hours grow.
Owner-led companies with no technology leader, where decisions about systems, spend, and vendors have started reaching the leadership table faster than anyone there can evaluate them.
Companies whose IT keeps things running but no one owns the roadmap, budget, vendors, or compliance, or that need a credible technology plan for a board or investors.
Companies ready to act on the plan and short of a team to build it: replacing a legacy system, launching a customer platform, or putting automation into daily work, with the seat and the builders under one accountable name.
Not sure which fits? Book a session and we will tell you, whether or not it involves us.
02 — How we work
Every engagement starts with an assessment you own outright. If the plan says the right move is to keep what you have and fix two things, that is what the plan will say.
We map systems, spend, contracts, risk, and workflow. You get an inventory of what you own, what it costs, where it is fragile, and the three things costing you the most in time or money.
A written plan with sequencing, cost ranges, and a named owner for every decision. Written for your operators and your board, not for a technology audience.
A small senior team ships working software every two weeks. You see it running, in your environment, before you approve the next increment. No offshore hand-off, no ticket queue.
We stay on the hook — monitoring, patching, iteration, and the leadership seat if you want it. Documentation and source stay with you either way.
03 — Value
Published figures on what the full-time route costs, how long it takes, and how much of the working week is waiting to be given back.
Average salary for a full-time chief technology officer in the United States, before benefits, bonus, or equity.
Salary.com, August 2026Typical executive search for a critical leadership role, from kickoff to an accepted offer. C-suite searches often run longer.
JRG Partners, executive search benchmarksShare of U.S. work hours that currently demonstrated technologies could, in theory, automate.
McKinsey Global Institute, Agents, robots, and us, 2025Hours a year the average U.S. worker spends on duplicated work and work that is no longer relevant. Nearly six hours every week.
Asana, Anatomy of Work IndexA fractional seat costs a fraction of the first number, starts inside the second, and its first job is finding the hours in the last two.
04 — Ways to start
Two to four weeks, fixed fee. Systems inventory, risk review, and a sequenced plan you own — whether or not you engage us to build it.
A set number of hours each month. Standing seat in leadership meetings, roadmap and budget ownership, vendor oversight, and escalation you can call.
See the retainer packages →Defined scope, milestone billing, two-week demos. Source, documentation, and infrastructure access transfer to you at completion.
05 — FAQ
A fractional CTO is a senior technology executive who works with your company part-time on a recurring basis, carrying real decision authority rather than advising from the outside. It makes sense when technology decisions have started reaching your leadership table faster than anyone there can evaluate them, but the volume of work does not yet justify a full-time executive salary.
An MSP keeps your existing systems running. That is a real and necessary job, and we often work alongside one. What an MSP is not structured to do is decide what your systems should be, negotiate against its own contract, or build software that does not exist yet. We sit on your side of that table.
No. Every AI engagement starts with a written data-handling decision: which vendors touch your data, what their retention terms are, and which workloads run on infrastructure you control. For sensitive workloads we deploy self-hosted models so nothing leaves your environment.
You do. Source, documentation, infrastructure configuration, and credentials are yours, in your repositories, from the first commit. There is no proprietary runtime you have to keep paying us to use.
Assessment engagements typically start within two weeks of a signed agreement. Retainers begin at the start of the following month. Emergencies are a different conversation — call and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Yes. Packages can be upgraded or downgraded at any time.
A private workspace for your engagement, included in every package: secure data rooms for documents and diligence, project management tools for the roadmap and its owners, and one channel for communication, so nothing important lives in someone's inbox. Builder engagements add the Devantas Advanced Toolset: our custom-built SQL database, integration, and workflow tools.
That is the plan. When a full-time technology leader is the right next step, we write the role, help you hire, and hand off the roadmap, documentation, and vendor relationships. We work ourselves out of a job.
Yes. We are based in the Omaha metro and work on site with regional clients regularly. Remote engagements are routine, with on-site visits scheduled around assessments, kickoffs, and quarterly planning.
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We will tell you what we would do, whether or not it involves us.
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Held remotely. On site by arrangement in the Omaha area.