A Fractional CTO for B2B e-commerce companies that outgrew their platform — and their agency.
I embed as your technology leader on a monthly retainer — strategy, architecture, security, and hands-on builds, backed by a dedicated engineering team. One accountable person instead of a vendor queue.
Who this is for
If one of these sounds familiar, we should talk.
Stuck on an aging platform
Magento is past end-of-life, the agency quotes keep growing, and nobody actually owns your roadmap. You don't need another vendor. You need someone accountable for the whole stack.
Losing procurement deals
Hospital, university, and lab buyers want to purchase through their procurement systems — Prendio, Ariba, Coupa. Punchout middleware vendors charge $50K a year to bridge that gap and take six weeks per connection. There's a better way, and you can own it.
No technology leadership
Hiring a full-time CTO takes six months and $250K+ a year. Your platform decisions can't wait that long — and most B2B companies need senior technology leadership ten hours a week, not fifty.
How it works
Assess.
I start by reading your stack the way an engineer does — platform, integrations, security posture, AI search visibility. You get specific findings, not a slide deck. If you don't need a fractional CTO, I'll tell you that too.
Lead.
I join as your CTO on retainer: weekly leadership cadence, architecture ownership, vendor and hiring decisions, and a roadmap that survives contact with reality. Your team — or mine — executes against it.
Build.
Every engagement runs on documented playbooks with defined outputs and published prices. You see exactly what's being done, why, and what it costs. No black boxes, no hourly meters.
Results from recent engagements
The numbers above come from real engagements — the full stories are in Proof.
One engagement. Four capabilities.
Commerce Platform & Migration
BigCommerce (including Enterprise), Magento exits, ERP integration with QuickBooks, NetSuite, and SAP — migrations measured in weeks, with the catalog intact.
Procurement & Punchout Integration
A native, multi-tenant cXML punchout server that connects your store to Prendio, Ariba, and Coupa-class networks. Middleware vendors quote ~6 weeks per buyer connection; we onboard buyer institutions in a fraction of that — with no annual middleware fees, and you own the integration.
AI Search Visibility (AEO)
When your buyers ask ChatGPT or Perplexity who to purchase from, the answer should cite you. We structure your content and schema so machines can quote it.
Security & Infrastructure
Azure architecture, a hardened deployment pipeline with no shared CI runners, OWASP hardening, WAF, and audit logging on every entity. Security here isn't a service tier — see below.
Security is how we build, not what we sell.
Every Fowara build ships through a supply-chain-hardened pipeline — SLSA Level 3, Entra ID identity, no third-party CI runners, no secrets in code, audit logs on every entity by rule. Most agencies bolt security on at the end. Here it's a precondition for writing the first line.
Not sure you need a fractional CTO?
Book the call anyway. It's fifteen minutes, I'll look at your stack before we talk, and if you don't need me, I'll tell you what you actually need instead. No pitch.
Book a 15-minute fit call