Technology strategy for founders who need answers.
Most SMBs make technology decisions reactively: buying tools when problems appear, switching vendors when things break. We help you build a technology strategy that compounds in value over 1–3 years.
Why Melbourne businesses choose a fractional CTO over hiring full-time.
Technology strategy for founders who need answers.
Every engagement includes the thinking and the doing, not a slide deck you're left to implement yourself.
Clear scope. Fixed fee.
Technology Assessment
A fixed-scope engagement, three to four weeks.
- Full review of your current technology, spend and vendors
- Where the money is going and what it is actually buying
- A prioritised one to three year roadmap you can budget against
- Written report and a working session to walk through it
Fractional CTO
Ongoing senior technology leadership, typically two days a month.
- Roadmap ownership and quarterly re-planning
- Vendor selection, negotiation and management
- Board and leadership reporting
- On call for the decisions that matter
Project Advisory
For a specific decision or a defined piece of work.
- Migration and platform reviews
- Build versus buy decisions
- Second opinion on a proposal or a vendor quote
Every engagement starts with a scope and a fixed fee, confirmed within three business days of our first call. No open-ended retainers.
Strategy in practice.
National retail group
A $60M to $70M national retail group, technology estate under external administration
When the group entered external administration, nobody could say what was running across its cloud platforms or what it was costing each month. Parts of the estate had not been audited since 2023.
Over five weeks we mapped four cloud platforms end to end, established the real monthly run rate on each, identified savings that could be actioned without further approval, and set out what had to be preserved before accounts closed and what could be shut down safely. We then executed the administrative handover to the incoming IT provider across eight platforms as separate named accounts, with no shared credentials.
The client was personally liable for getting it wrong. Everything had to be evidenced rather than asserted.
Professional services firm, Melbourne
A Melbourne professional services firm with a decade of reactive technology decisions
Tools bought one problem at a time, no single administrative layer, and no way to plan a budget. We consolidated onto Microsoft 365 and SharePoint under one admin layer, then produced a one to three year roadmap the leadership team could actually cost.
From first call to living roadmap.
Strategy questions, answered honestly.
A full-time senior technology hire costs $200,000–$350,000 per year in salary alone, before super and on-costs. We provide the same strategic thinking and senior advisory presence for a fraction of that, and you only pay for what you need.
No. We translate technology decisions into plain business language. You make the decisions. We give you the information to make them confidently.
Most advisory clients work with us for 12–24 months. The first 90 days covers discovery and roadmap delivery. After that, ongoing advisory runs month-to-month. See how we've delivered technology outcomes for Australian businesses on our results page.
Yes. Abnaasi can handle implementation across web, IT systems, cloud, and AI automation, so your strategy doesn't sit in a folder. We do the doing as well as the thinking.
Scope and pricing vary by engagement size and complexity. Book a 30-minute strategy call and we'll give you a clear scope and fee within 3 business days.
Technology strategy consulting for Melbourne businesses
Most Melbourne small businesses don't need a full-time CTO. They need someone senior who can assess their current technology, build a roadmap, and guide implementation — without the $300,000 annual salary.
That is what a fractional CTO does. You get experienced technology strategy consulting in Melbourne on a schedule that matches your budget: monthly advisory, quarterly reviews, or project-based engagements. Same strategic depth, fraction of the cost.
We work with founder-led businesses between 5 and 100 staff who have outgrown ad-hoc technology decisions but aren't ready for a full-time executive hire. Our technology strategy consulting covers vendor selection, IT budgeting, cloud migration planning, AI readiness, and board-level reporting.
As a Melbourne-based fractional CTO, we bring the same rigour you would expect from an in-house technology leader. The difference: you only pay for the hours you need, and you get an independent perspective untied to any vendor or product.
Ready to stop making technology
decisions in the dark?
We'll review your current technology setup, identify the gaps, and show you exactly what a 1–3 year roadmap would look like for your business, at no cost.
Free. 30 minutes. No obligation.