How Orion Leap engages.
Orion Leap engagements start from a simple premise: your budget should buy outcomes, not process. Every engagement begins with a discovery assessment — typically two to three days of system review, stakeholder conversations, and financial analysis. You receive a prioritized roadmap with clear cost implications before any long-term commitment.
Technology Strategy & Leadership
You need someone who has run technology organizations — not just managed projects within them. I provide fractional CTO services that give you an experienced technology leader who understands both the technical landscape and the financial constraints you operate within.
What this looks like
- Short-term advisory for specific decisions (platform choice, vendor selection, architecture direction)
- Ongoing fractional leadership for companies not ready for a full-time CTO
- Board-level technology guidance for investment or transition periods
Crisis & Platform Recovery
Systems fail under pressure. When they do, you need someone who has been through real incidents — the kind that clarify what your architecture actually is versus what you thought it was. I stabilize, harden, and build the recovery roadmap.
What this looks like
- Emergency stabilization of production systems
- Incident response and post-mortem leadership
- Recovery roadmap with clear milestones
- Security hardening following breach or vulnerability events
Real Impact
Maintained 100% uptime and revenue continuity during active security crises. Directed international teams through platform modernization 50% under timeline.
Cost Optimization
Most technology spending is opaque even to the people approving it. I map your actual technology footprint, identify redundancies and misalignments, and build a reduction plan that doesn’t sacrifice capability.
What this looks like
- Vendor consolidation and contract renegotiation
- Infrastructure spend analysis (cloud, hosting, licenses)
- Tooling rationalization — eliminating overlap
- Process efficiency that reduces support and maintenance costs
Real Impact
$312K in annual savings (83% reduction) through vendor consolidation and process efficiency. 70% IT infrastructure cost reduction through MSP negotiation.
Fractional CTO
The most common gap I fill: companies that have grown past the point where technology decisions can be made ad-hoc, but aren’t ready for a full-time CTO. I provide regular, structured technology leadership without the overhead.
What this looks like
- Weekly or bi-weekly leadership sessions
- Architecture and code review cadence
- Budget planning and CapEx / OpEx guidance
- Vendor and partner evaluation
- Team development and technical hiring support
Every engagement is structured for clarity.
All engagements include written deliverables — artifacts, not opinions. Roadmaps, financial models, architecture diagrams, vendor comparison frameworks. You get something you can use after the engagement ends.
| Engagement Type | Typical Duration | Investment Model |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Assessment | 2–3 days | Fixed fee |
| Project-Based | 4–12 weeks | Project-based pricing |
| Fractional CTO | Ongoing | Monthly retainer |
| Advisory (as needed) | Variable | Hourly or retainer |
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No pitch deck. No pressure. Just an honest assessment of whether I’m the right fit for what you need.
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