A senior CIO, CTO or CISO leading your technology. Less time, more results.

A senior technology executive who takes on the role on an ongoing, part-time basis: they join your executive committee, direct the roadmap, the teams and the vendors, and answer for the result. It is the figure the market calls a fractional executive, also searched for as an external technology director, external CTO or CISO as a service. The difference with a consultant: the consultant recommends; the fractional leads and is held accountable.

The interim is full-time and temporary, with an exit date: replacements, crises, integrations. The fractional is ongoing and has no agreed schedule: it works on results, with the presence each objective demands, and is designed for companies that need permanent technology leadership without hiring an executive in-house. Stradiax does fractional; if your case calls for an interim, we tell you in the first call.

The strategic mandate is bounded: one decision, one lever, a defined scope and usually a few months. The fractional is ongoing leadership: the executive stays in charge of the technology agenda, not of a single matter. Many fractionals start after a mandate, when the company already knows what has to be done and decides that someone with judgement should lead it from inside.

There is no fixed schedule: the fractional works on results, not days. Presence is set by the objectives: the committee where they need to be, the negotiation they need to lead, the team they need to grow. What there is, is continuity, because directing demands it: the objectives for the first 90 days are agreed before starting, and from then on the result rules over the calendar.

A fixed monthly fee according to the role and the objectives, plus a results-linked component. We do not publish a price list because no two companies have the same objectives; what is the same in every case is what there is not: no hourly or daily rate. As a market reference, an in-house technology executive costs well over 100,000 € a year; the fractional gives you that judgement and that leadership for the fraction your company actually needs.

Yes, and it is one of the most frequent reasons. NIS2 is about to apply in Spain and makes the management body responsible for risk management; DORA has been enforceable for financial entities and their critical technology vendors since January 2025; the ENS applies if you sell to the public sector. A fractional CISO puts a senior, ongoing lead in front of those obligations, with the risk told in boardroom language and without depending on the vendor that sells you the tools.

A Stradiax Senior Advisor with decades of experience directing technology, operations or security, with the Advisory Board and the Principal Advisor behind them setting the standard. You meet the person before signing, the objectives are agreed in writing and, if the fit does not work, it gets said and resolved: the commitment is to the result, not to keeping a seat occupied.

The fractional directs, it does not resell: no third-party implementations, no partner programmes, no vendor commissions. When the roadmap calls for building AI systems, they can activate Stradiax's Enterprise AI Implementation, always with the business case closed by you before the first line of code. And what Stradiax reviews in Second Opinion, Executive Committee Support or Peer Review it does not deploy: that rule is never crossed.