Palahepitiya Gamage Amila · AI-first Fractional CTO
AI-first fractional CTO for founders who need the seat, not another advisor.
Agents and specialists collect the facts and write drafts. I decide what matters. You get senior judgement without a £150k full-time hire.
What is an AI-first fractional CTO?
An AI-first fractional CTO is a senior technology leader who owns the job on a part-time retainer: architecture, roadmap, team, and the hard calls, without a full-time hire.
Agents and specialists collect the facts and write drafts. I still decide every material call. You get weekly leadership in the seat.
Sixteen years in technology. Eight years as a CTO and fractional CTO. Operator engagements across fintech, construction tech, healthtech, and SaaS.
Ferry
App Store 2 → 4.5★ in six months · 40k+ users · $25M+ monthly transactions
BORIS
200 → 1 multi-tenant · path £1.8M toward £10M ARR
VoiceIQ
Founder CTO 2018–2022 · strategy, architecture, product
- Ferry
- BORIS
- VoiceIQ
- NHS trusts
- Cheesecake Factory
What I do
Four ways to work together.
The retainer is the main offer. The others help you get there, or keep you sharp when capital and scale are on the line.
Hero offer
Fractional / interim CTO retainer
AI-first engineering leadership setup
Technology & product due diligence
Architecture & scale review
How it works
Collect and draft
Agents and specialists pull from code, docs, product, and ops. Fast and thorough.
Decide
I decide what matters at your stage, cut the noise, and lock the call.
Lead
Clear priorities, clear owners, and decisions that stick between sessions.
Your approval before anything external
Nothing goes out under your name without your say-so.
Operator proof
Here is what that looked like in practice.
I have sat in the CTO seat while companies scaled, not only advised from the side.
Ferry · US fintech
Fractional CTO. Took the App Store rating from 2 to 4.5 stars in six months, scaled to 40,000+ users and $25M+ in monthly transactions, led SOC 2, won and supported Fortune-100 accounts including Cheesecake Factory, rolled out AI tooling across engineering, and grew two engineers into team leads.
Amila stays calm under pressure, anticipates the technical roadblocks, and creates practical solutions that resolve company-wide issues. His technical depth, and the questions he asks, set him apart. He owns the hardest, highest-stakes work and sees it through independently, from our SOC 2 to the Cheesecake Factory rollout. Fortune-100-level support, delivered, and the major reason that account has been so happy with us.
Trista Kempa, Founder & COO, Ferry
BORIS · UK construction tech
Fractional CTO. Led an 18-month transformation from 200 single-tenant instances to one multi-tenant SaaS platform, cutting infrastructure cost and setting the path from £1.8M toward £10M ARR.
VoiceIQ · B2B SaaS
Founder CTO, 2018–2022. Owned strategy, architecture and product, built the team, and shipped ML for voice-based vulnerability detection.
Technology & Product Diligence
MeridianSeries A SaaS · Illustrative engagement
Findings at a glance
When capital is on the line
Same way of working. Different brief.
Agents collect the evidence across code and product. I decide what matters for the decision in front of you. One clear report, usually in about five business days.
I own the decisions and stay for the consequences.
If you want technology led that way, book thirty minutes. Thirty minutes will tell us both whether this is a fit. I will say so honestly if it is not.
Or write: hello@pgamila.com