July 11, 2026
Five signs your business has outgrown its web vendor
Ticket queues, ownership gaps, humans as middleware, everything-is-a-quote, and departed builders. The five fragments that mean the vendor shape is wrong, not the vendor.
Category: Operations
Field notes on running systems long-term: retainers, fractional engineering, and operational practice.
July 7, 2026
What a fractional engineering retainer looks like, month to month
Monitoring that never sleeps, a maintenance rhythm, an improvements queue, and a plain-language report. An ordinary retainer month, documented in the order it happens.
June 30, 2026
The freelancer, the agency, and the fractional engineer: who owns your systems after launch?
The day after launch, who wakes up caring whether it still works? How ownership plays out across the three models, and the month-seven question that exposes it.
June 19, 2026
Fractional CTO vs fractional engineer: which one you actually need
One advises, one delivers. How to tell whether your business needs technology strategy or a senior pair of hands that stays, and the rough size rule that decides it.
June 11, 2026
Fractional engineering vs hiring in-house: the real cost math
A senior hire costs €6,000 to €9,000 a month for one discipline. The honest arithmetic of fractional engineering, including the utilisation cost nobody prices in.
June 2, 2026
What is fractional engineering? A plain guide for established businesses
Senior engineering on retainer instead of payroll: what fractional engineering is, what it costs against a €6,000 to €9,000 a month hire, and how to spot a diluted provider.