Founder-led businesses · UK & India
Your technology needs an owner. Not another tool.
A fractional CTO for founders and business owners — CTO judgment without a full-time hire.
Free, 30 minutes, no pitch deck. Within a few hours, you get a written list of what to fix first.
How YTC works
Sales. Finance. Operations. Customers. Each with its own tools, people and suppliers.
And you’re the one holding it all together. Chasing hand-offs, re-typing data, catching what slips.
One system. One owner. Not you. Your people, tools and data, connected with AI and automation, and owned by YTC.
Your Tech Chief
How it works
What happens after you book.
No pitch deck and nothing to sign on day one. Every step leaves you with something you keep.
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01 Free
The 30-minute call
Tell me what you’re running and where it hurts. I’ll ask the questions a CTO would.
You get a written list of what to fix first, within a few hours.
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Scope and cost
If you’d like help with fix one, I set out the scope and the cost of that first piece of work.
You get the scope and cost, agreed before you commit to anything.
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The work
I own it end to end — diagnose, align, architect and execute — across your team, your vendors and your tools.
You get one accountable owner, and progress you can see.
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Review
We measure what changed and name the next constraint.
You get a clear view of what improved. You decide what comes next.
Free, 30 minutes, no pitch deck.
Fractional CTO
One role. Whatever’s in the way.
As your fractional CTO, I own your technology part-time, as much or as little as you need. Founders usually bring me one of these.
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CRM & WhatsApp lead automation
Enquiries are slipping through the cracks.
WhatsApp and CRM lead journeys where every lead has an owner, a next step and a recorded outcome.
2.6× more conversions a month for a premium real-estate business.
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Technology strategy & cost review
Too many tools, rising costs, nothing joined up.
A clear call on what to keep, connect, replace or stop, before you spend more.
Infrastructure costs cut 70% on a council platform.
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Architecture review & delivery rescue
A build that’s stuck, late or fragile.
Back on track, with decisions you understand and one person accountable for delivery, whoever is doing the building.
A stalled council project live in 3 months.
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AI product & MVP delivery
An AI idea you want to test properly.
A small, cost-aware product with clear inputs, outputs and review, and someone owning it in production.
Charity due diligence in 3 minutes, for about 40p, in an AI MVP.
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Product & platform builds
A product to build from zero.
Architecture, team and launch, owned from the first decision.
Nearly seven years as CTO, building e-commerce, salon ERP and dairy operations platforms.
Start with one fix. Keep me on if it’s useful.
Every engagement starts with a single scoped piece of work. After that, you decide whether I stay on as your ongoing CTO.
Results
Six businesses. What changed, and what made it work.
Different industries, different stacks, one habit: know what a system will cost and whether it can ship — before it gets built.
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Revenue · Premium farm plots, India
2.6× more conversions a month
Enquiries from WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, on plots starting at ₹20 lakh, rebuilt into one journey: 50+ WhatsApp templates, 20+ workflows, and an owner and a next step for every lead. Conversions rose from 0.6 to 1.55 a month. I then rebuilt the same pattern for two education brands in two months.
Leads rarely go cold. They go unowned.
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Cost · UK council
Cut infrastructure costs 70%
Bradford Council’s holiday activities platform ran on a server billed twelve months a year to serve three. Rebuilt serverless, the bill follows the programme.
Most cloud overspend is decided at design time, not discovered on the invoice.
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Rescue · UK council
Stalled project live in 3 months. Then the client hired me.
Brought in as external CTO on a children’s-services platform that had stopped moving. A secure production release in about three months, with independent security testing going from twelve findings, four of them high-risk, to a clean report. The client’s CEO then hired me as Head of IT.
What unblocks a stalled build is ownership, not more developers.
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AI · UK social impact
Charity due diligence in 3 minutes, for about 40p
An AI MVP that scores a charity on ten dimensions from official registers and filings, with every source cited, a confidence level on every score, and a person able to override it. A company ESG profile takes about a minute.
Most AI projects stall because nobody modelled the business first. The model is the easy part.
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Commerce · Consumer brands, India
20% more revenue, 40% less wasted ad spend
Nearly seven years as CTO, building an e-commerce platform that ran four consumer brands, alongside salon and dairy operations systems. These gains came from customer-targeting work my team shipped.
Technology earns its place when it shows up in the revenue line.
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Scale · UK geospatial consultancy
Per-client consulting to a self-serve platform for 2 million postcodes
A consultancy’s manual analysis, done client by client, became a platform anyone can use: type any of England’s two million postcodes and get the analysis in seconds.
If revenue only grows when you hire, that is an architecture problem.
Tools & technologies
30+ technologies. One owner across all of them.
In production since 2016, from banking at Oracle to e-commerce and operations platforms in India, and public-sector and AI platforms in the UK.
- 35 technologies
- 5 layers of your business
- 1 owner across all of them
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What customers see
Website and apps
- Angular
- React
- React Native
- Android
- HTML5
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What runs behind it
Systems that do the work
- Node.js
- Express
- Java
- Spring
- Hibernate
- REST APIs
- SOAP
- Oracle banking (OBDX)
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What follows up for you
AI and automation
- OpenAI models
- Anthropic models
- Retrieval & vector search
- Agent workflows
- WhatsApp Business API
- CRM automation
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Where your data lives
Databases and maps
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Esri
- ArcGIS
- Valhalla routing
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What keeps it running
Cloud and security
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon S3
- CloudFront
- API Gateway
- Route 53
- CloudWatch
- Amazon SNS
- Serverless Framework
- Linux
- Nginx
One owner
About
Parag Bhadoria
I’ve owned technology end to end since 2017: as a CTO in India for nearly seven years, then for UK public-sector and AI platforms. I work from Mumbai with founders in the UK and India.
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2016
Oracle Financial ServicesBanking software for Oracle’s digital banking platform.
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2017–2024
CTO, UPPRCAS3 (formerly Vaisansar), IndiaE-commerce for four consumer brands, plus salon and dairy operations platforms.
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2022
External CTO for Yeme Tech, UKRescued a stalled council children’s-services platform in about three months. Yeme Tech’s CEO then hired me.
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2023–2025
Head of IT, Yeme Tech, UKA self-serve platform for 2 million postcodes, and the council platform kept secure through independent testing.
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2025–2026
Head of Technology, CommunityAI, UKAI due diligence for charities and companies, costed per report.
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Now
YTC — Your Tech ChiefThree years with founders through a closed network, including a premium real-estate business. Now open to more.
How I work
- Map the journey before buying another tool.
- Automate timing, not relationships.
- Cost it per unit before you scale it.
More about Parag Read what the people who hired me say Open the digital card
References
What the people who hired me say.
Two technology founders, a council programme manager and a business owner, in their own words. One of them hired me after the first project.
“…bridge deep technical knowledge with strategic foresight…”
Parag consistently demonstrated technical expertise, creativity, and proactive leadership. His ability to bridge deep technical knowledge with strategic foresight made him a vital asset.
Amir Hussain
Founder, Yeme Tech · UK
What I did Hired me as Head of IT, after I rescued a stalled council platform for his company in 2022.
“He took ownership of the full lead journey…”
Parag did more than automate our CRM. He took ownership of the full lead journey and turned a manual, fragmented process into a connected system that gives our team greater visibility, consistency, and confidence from enquiry to closure.
Suresh Jangid
Founder, SM Golden Trees Agro LLP · India
What I did Rebuilt the lead journey across WhatsApp and CRM: 2.6× more conversions a month.
“…brilliant and truly supportive of our needs in Bradford.”
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you. You have been brilliant and truly supportive of our needs in Bradford.
What I did The council’s holiday activities platform: live in about three months, with infrastructure costs cut 70%.
“…driven our technological progress and client satisfaction.”
Parag’s leadership and expertise have driven our technological progress and client satisfaction. We value his contributions highly.
Ankit Tripathi
Founder, UPPRCAS3 Elements · India
What I did Nearly seven years as CTO: e-commerce for four consumer brands, plus salon and dairy platforms.
Questions
What founders ask first.
What does a fractional CTO do?
A fractional CTO gives a business senior technology leadership part-time, without a full-time hire. At YTC that means owning the technology end to end: diagnosing systems, cost and vendors, setting the roadmap, making the architecture decisions, and leading delivery until the result can be measured.
When does a business need a fractional CTO rather than a full-time one?
When technology decisions carry real commercial weight but there is not yet a full-time CTO’s worth of work. Typical moments are choosing a platform or vendor, a build that has stalled, cloud costs that keep rising, turning a manual service into a product, or growing past what a founder can hold together by hand.
How is a fractional CTO different from a consultant or a development agency?
A consultant advises and leaves; an agency builds what it is asked to build. A fractional CTO is accountable for the outcome: deciding what should be built, holding developers and vendors to it, and owning the result. YTC sits on the client’s side of the table, including when an agency does the building.
How does working with YTC start?
With a free 30-minute call: a straight conversation about what you are running, what it is costing you, and what should change, with no obligation and no pitch deck. Within a few hours, you get a written fix-first list: the one thing to fix first, two after it, and what to leave alone or not buy yet. It is yours whether or not you work with YTC. If you want help, the scope and cost of that first piece of work are agreed before you commit. Book the free call.
What does it cost to work with YTC?
It depends on the scope of the work, so there is no fixed price list. The first step is a free 30-minute call, where Parag understands your exact requirement. The cost is then set out for that scope, before you commit to anything. Every engagement starts with one scoped piece of work; after that, you decide whether YTC stays on as your ongoing CTO. Book the free call.
Can YTC work with my existing developers or agency?
Yes. YTC sits on your side of the table: setting the priorities, reviewing what gets built, holding developers, agencies and vendors to the outcome, and leading delivery when it has stalled. The aim is to get more from the people already in place, and to say plainly where a different partner or hire is needed.
Can YTC work with a UK business from India?
Yes. Parag works from Mumbai and has delivered for UK organisations remotely since 2022: a council’s holiday activities platform, a geospatial consultancy’s national platform, and an AI platform for the UK social-impact sector.
Does YTC only work with technology companies?
No. Most clients are founder-led businesses where technology is a means, not the product: premium real estate, education, consumer brands, a council programme, a geospatial consultancy and charities. What they share is technology that has become harder than it should be.
What if I don’t need a fractional CTO?
Then the fix-first list after the free call will say so. Sometimes the right answer is a process change, better use of a tool you already pay for, or a specific hire, and the list is yours either way.
What results has YTC delivered?
Six, from six businesses: 2.6× more conversions a month for a premium real-estate business in India; infrastructure costs cut 70% on Bradford Council’s holiday activities platform; a stalled council project live in three months; charity due diligence in about three minutes, for about 40p, in an AI MVP; 20% more revenue and 40% less wasted ad spend across four consumer brands; and a consultancy’s manual analysis turned into a self-serve platform for around two million England postcodes. See the results.
Start with a free 30-minute review.
Free, 30 minutes, no pitch deck. Within a few hours, you get a written list of what to fix first. It’s yours whether or not we work together.