Do I need Build Direction or an Interim CTO?

Build Direction holds one structural build end to end. An interim seat holds a whole function, including everything unrelated to that build. If the gap is the build, take the direction; if the gap is the function, take the seat.

Do you replace our vendors?

No. The mandate arbitrates between them against the target state, and holds the quality gates their work has to pass.

Technology Build Direction

Direct answer

what this is, in one pass

Technology Build Direction is an accountable direction mandate for a structural build. ARCHITEKT holds the target, sequencing, decisions, delivery governance, technical quality gates and handover while client teams and specialist vendors can remain the delivery engine.

Situation: A structural build has many delivery actors and no one holding the whole result.

Four doors into the same mandate

Replatforming
Modernization
New product
Post-acquisition integration

What ARCHITEKT holds

Target state
Architecture
Sequencing
Technical decisions
Product and delivery governance
Dependency management
Vendor arbitration
Quality gates
Acceptance criteria
Handover

What it does not require

An anonymous delivery army. The mandate is direction, not headcount: your teams and your specialist vendors remain the delivery engine.

Exit

what remains when the mandate ends

Delivery is incomplete until ownership has moved: acceptance criteria met, a named owner in place and the quality gates run by the client's own team.

Capabilities mobilised

what the mandate can draw on

Primary

Software Legacy Platform AI engineering

Secondary

Business Strategy Product Security Data AI Agentic

Where it has run

published cases, with provenance

001RAJA Group.An omnichannel and e-commerce transformation advisory for RAJA Group, Europe's leading packaging distributor, centred on integrating the Viking business.002Electro Depot.An omnichannel and technology transformation advisory for Electro Depot, the discount electronics retailer, run under its UNIFY program.003Satelia.A six-month transition CPTO mandate at a cardiovascular telemonitoring medtech, completed in July 2026, moving 15 people from a monolith to microservices for EU market entry.004Opella.A design-operating-model reset at Sanofi's consumer-health business that accelerated delivery by 40% through insourcing across a 10-plus-brand ecosystem.005Peetchr.A from-scratch product, technology and AI build for Peetchr, an AI conversational-recruitment SaaS, as founding CPTO, taking the venture to a French DeepTech label.006Celio.An omnichannel replatforming that grew e-commerce from a 4.7% to a 7% revenue share and delivered a 46% revenue lift over an 11-month product mandate.

Questions

asked before every mandate

Do I need Build Direction or an Interim CTO?: Build Direction holds one structural build end to end. An interim seat holds a whole function, including everything unrelated to that build. If the gap is the build, take the direction; if the gap is the function, take the seat.
Do you replace our vendors?: No. The mandate arbitrates between them against the target state, and holds the quality gates their work has to pass.

Discuss a build See the proof

Build Direction.