Ian Horne
Technology leadership for situations that aren't working.
Delivery has stalled. Confidence is low. The numbers don't stand up. I come in, find the constraint, and lead the work to get things moving again.
Available for permanent, fractional, and interim engagements. UK and international.
What I do
Three ways in.
Fractional CTO. 2-3 days/week. Direction, decision-making, and accountability at board level.
Transformation Leadership. Assess, prioritise, execute, stabilise. Work that gets the system working.
Technology Due Diligence. Pre-deal, carve-out, post-deal. What matters, what breaks, what it takes to fix.
Selected thinking
If you want to understand how I think, start here.
The automatable middle
Where AI replaces work first, and what that means for the middle layer of your technology estate.
CostThe AI cost iceberg
The API bill is visible. The engineering overhead, governance debt, and maintenance drag are not.
CapabilityI can audit all your systems, latest to legacy
Pattern recognition across any technology estate, any vintage, in under a week.
Execution43 Repos in 70 Days
Consolidating 43 repositories across a global organisation in 70 days. The constraint and how it was cleared.
Operating modelPersonas before governance
Accountable AI behaviour at production scale. The governance pattern that ships.
Evidence
Everything on this site is built or used in practice.
Assessment instruments and working code from real engagements, available to run directly in your browser. No data leaves your machine.