--- title: "Strategy, architecture, delivery, fractional CTO — BoldOrion" description: "Four ways to work with BoldOrion: strategy evaluation, systems architecture, delivery, and fractional CTO. Which one fits, and when we’re not the fit." url: https://www.boldorion.com/services/ --- Services # Pick the problem, not the service. Four ways we work, and what usually leads to each. If you can’t tell which fits, that’s what the evaluation is for. ## The four services Strategy evaluation ### Not sure where to start? Let’s evaluate together. A short, fixed engagement. We look at the plan, the product, or the AI idea, find the problem behind it, and tell you straight what we’d do, before the money is committed. - **You leave with**: A written recommendation, the trade-offs behind it, what not to build, and which of the three you need, if any. Sometimes it’s none. Two weeks · **$7,500** fixed [How it works](https://www.boldorion.com/services/strategy-evaluation) Credited in full if we carry on together within 60 days. 01 Systems architecture ### How should it all fit together? We map how the business works and design the system it needs: data, tools, people, and where AI belongs. - **You leave with**: A map of the business as it really runs, and a design to build from. Six weeks · fixed price [How it works](https://www.boldorion.com/services/systems-architecture) 02 Delivery ### Who’s going to build it? A senior team builds the first version fast, because the thinking is done. A product, an internal tool, or the platform underneath both. - **You leave with**: Working software in use, and a team or partner ready to carry it. Fixed scope, in phases [How it works](https://www.boldorion.com/services/delivery) 03 Fractional CTO ### Who’s making the technical calls? A senior technical leader at the table for a set term, then a review. We make the calls with your team, and stand behind them with investors. - **You leave with**: Decisions made and written down, and a team that can carry them. Two quarters, then review [How it works](https://www.boldorion.com/services/fractional-cto) Which one fits ## What people tell us, and where it usually leads. A starting point, not a rule. When it isn’t clear, the evaluation is how we find out. - We need an AI strategy. [Strategy evaluation Two weeks on where AI pays off in your business, where it doesn’t, and what has to be true first.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/strategy-evaluation) - We have the budget. We’re not sure what to build first. [Strategy evaluation A recommendation on the simplest thing that adds value, and what to leave out.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/strategy-evaluation) - Our team is busy, but the product isn’t moving. [Systems architecture Usually nobody has drawn the whole product. Once the team can see it, they can move.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/systems-architecture) - We want AI doing real work, not a demo. [Systems architecture Where it runs, who checks its work, and what a mistake costs, designed before anything is built.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/systems-architecture) - We know what to build. We need it built well, and soon. [Delivery A first version from a design, by a senior team, with the handover planned from the start.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/delivery) - Investors keep asking technical questions we can’t answer. [Fractional CTO A senior technical leader at the table for two quarters, and beside you in due diligence.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/fractional-cto) - We need a technical co-founder, and can’t find one. [Fractional CTO Someone to make the calls now, and write the brief for a full-time hire when it’s time.](https://www.boldorion.com/services/fractional-cto) When we’re not the fit ## Better to say so on the first call. If one of these is what you need, we’ll point you to someone who does it well. 1. ### Developers by the hour We price the work, not the time, and we don’t supply contractors to fill seats. 2. ### A brief that can’t be questioned If the scope is fixed and nobody can change it, we’re the wrong firm. We’ll keep asking whether it’s the right thing to build. [How an engagement runs](https://www.boldorion.com/process) [See the work](https://www.boldorion.com/work) Talk it through ## Bring the question you can’t quite phrase yet. That’s usually the right place to start. A conversation, not a pitch. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so, and point you to who is. [Talk it through](https://www.boldorion.com/contact) [hello@boldorion.com](mailto:hello@boldorion.com)