What this means in practice
- An agency’s incentive is delivering its scope; a fractional CTO’s is the company’s outcome across all vendors.
- A fractional CTO can write the brief, review estimates and check the agency’s architecture and code.
- Use an agency when the work is well-defined; add technology leadership when the direction is not.
- Some teams combine both: a fractional CTO sets the plan and an agency or in-house team builds it.
How Lid Vizion approaches it
We start with the business decision and operating context, define ownership and measurable milestones, then use configuration, integrations, automation, or custom software only where each earns its place.