Start with a decision product, not an open-ended retainer.
Every Civic Voice engagement begins with a fixed-price Strategic Tech Assessment. It establishes what should be built, why it matters to the business and whether we should continue together.
Thirty minutes, at no charge.
A conversation to establish:
- What is stalled.
- Why it matters now.
- Who owns the business consequence.
- What has already been attempted.
- Whether a five-day Assessment is justified.
The call is not a free consulting session. It is a mutual qualification decision.
Four artefacts you keep, whatever we decide.
The Assessment converts a commercially important technology problem into a decision the executive team can understand and work the delivery team can begin.
01
The Bridge
One visual artefact connecting the executive objective, commercial requirement and buildable technology initiative.
02
The Strategic Roadmap
A 90 to 180-day technology value map that can survive a board discussion without Civic Voice in the room.
03
The Initiative Spec
A build-ready specification a delivery team can estimate and begin within ten business days of approval.
04
The Outcome Hypothesis
A falsifiable statement defining the expected result in revenue, risk, cost or optionality.
All four artefacts belong to the client regardless of the recommendation made on Day 5.
Five working days. Twelve client executive hours. $5,000 fixed.
A bounded execution engagement.
Built around the Initiative Spec. Before kickoff, we agree on:
- The business outcome.
- The first production milestone.
- Scope and explicit exclusions.
- Delivery responsibilities.
- Decision rights.
- Acceptance conditions.
- Shipping window.
- Price.
Civic Voice keeps the strategic decision and the build aligned while the work encounters real constraints.
Scope, duration and price are established from the Assessment. We do not sell generic blocks of engineering hours.
Three or six months of continued judgement.
Ongoing strategy-to-shipping leadership for when the problem requires continued executive judgement rather than one bounded Initiative. The program can include:
- Technology-roadmap decisions.
- Initiative sequencing.
- Vendor and architecture decisions.
- Delivery governance.
- Executive and board communication.
- Risk, ownership and investment decisions.
- Reinforcement of the client's internal delivery capability.
The program provides defined senior leadership and decision cadence. It is not unlimited on-demand support.
Some Assessments conclude that the company is not ready to move at the required speed. When that happens, we explain why, identify the prerequisites and leave the complete Assessment package with the client.
We do not recommend an Initiative merely to extend the engagement.
Yes, but Civic Voice does not sell a fraction of an executive's calendar.
A fractional CTO provides senior technology leadership without a full-time executive appointment. Civic Voice organises that leadership around a repeatable path: diagnose the commercial pressure, define the buildable initiative, remain accountable while it ships and leave the client with an operating capability it owns.
The fraction is the time commitment. The outcome is not fractional.
Thirty minutes. No pitch. If the fit is wrong, we will tell you.