Back to all services
Ongoing owner-side technical oversight

Technical Operating Partner

Ongoing owner-side technical oversight for companies without a senior internal technical owner.

I represent your side technically, so management is not dependent only on what vendors or developers say.

Controlled automation is part of the work only where it makes sense: after the workflow, owner, inputs, quality criteria, and failure cases are clear.

Starting point

From €2,500/month

Prices exclude VAT.

Who it's for

  • Owners and CEOs without senior internal technical leadership
  • Companies dependent on external software vendors
  • Firms with custom software, internal tools, CRM/ERP integrations, portals, dashboards, or automation
  • Teams where developers exist, but no one owns architecture, delivery discipline, or long-term technical risk

Problems I solve

  • Vendor proposals and technical decisions are hard to evaluate
  • Software projects keep slipping
  • Developers optimize local tasks, but no one owns the whole system
  • The company is accumulating hidden technical debt

What I do

  • 1Represent your side technically in key vendor and project conversations
  • 2Review proposals, estimates, roadmap choices, and architecture decisions
  • 3Maintain a simple risk register and decision log
  • 4Define acceptance criteria and quality gates
  • 5Translate technical trade-offs into business consequences

What I need (typical)

  • Access to vendor proposals, project plans, roadmap, and relevant technical artifacts
  • A management contact who can make or escalate decisions
  • Regular project or vendor touchpoints
  • Enough visibility to compare technical claims with delivery reality

What you get

  • Monthly technical risk register
  • Decision log with key technical trade-offs
  • Vendor/proposal review notes
  • Meeting notes and next technical actions
  • Acceptance criteria and quality gates for active work
  • Roadmap and estimate sanity checks
  • Monthly management summary: what is risky, what is reasonable, what to decide next

Not a fit if

  • You want cheap development capacity
  • You want to keep shipping without technical ownership
  • You are unwilling to include vendors or internal teams in technical review

Success looks like

  • Management understands the real technical risk
  • Vendor conversations become more concrete
  • Fewer hidden surprises appear late in the project
  • The company is less dependent on one vendor, developer, or informal explanation

Need someone technical on your side?

Book a 30-min call. If it is a fit, I will suggest a realistic monthly scope.

Book a 30-min call