BusinessT3 — Fractional Architect
Senior architecture oversight, without a full-time hire.
Ongoing access to a senior architect for technical decisions, reviews, and mentoring your leads — capped at a few days a month.
€3,000–6,000 / month≤ 4 days per month
What this covers
A senior opinion on a schedule, not on an emergency.
- Architecture consultations and design reviews before things get built, not after they break.
- A second, senior opinion on technology and infrastructure decisions.
- Mentoring a technical lead toward owning the role fully — not permanent dependency on me.
- A steady cadence (typically 1–2x/week), not one-off firefighting calls.
What changes with this in place
Real, anonymized results from ongoing advisory engagements.
Technical decisions went from several days to 1–2 days
A product team with regular architecture access stopped queuing for one-off reviews.
Faulty deployments dropped 30–40%
The same regular review cadence caught architectural issues before they shipped, not after.
A team member took over the lead role fully in 6 months
Structured mentoring brought them to full ownership of technical and team leadership — including all business-facing conversations — so I could hand over and leave the project.
Evening production incidents dropped from weekly to rare
A recommendation as simple as paid on-call changed both response quality and how often the business called in the first place.
How engagements usually start
Most retainers begin as a natural continuation of a Sprint — “I oversee what I built” — or directly after an Audit, when the finding is “you don’t need more headcount, you need a second senior opinion on a schedule.”
Book an introductory call
A short conversation about your architecture, your leads, and whether a retainer is the right shape for it.