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Fractional CTO · AI Governance · Security Engineering

Governed AI engineering, not slideware.

I'm Craig Martin. For 30 years I've kept high-stakes systems secure at scale. Now I build the engineering function your business needs: NIST AI RMF-aligned governance, security by design, and the senior hands to ship it, running in your own environment.

Refined through high-stakes deployments at

GE Digital
Intel
Verizon
AWS GovCloud

Four pillars.

Infrastructure Sovereignty

Own your platform

Your platform should work for you, not lock you in. I review your SRE and DevOps setup, remove vendor lock-in, and make sure it handles 10x growth without 10x technical debt.

Applied AI

AI that pays off

Private, secure models on your own data. I focus on the AI that improves the bottom line, and skip the demos that do not.

Institutional Resilience

Security and governance

Security and EU AI Act governance built into the code you ship: guardrails, audit trails, and a clear, approved path for AI.

Engineering Network

Senior engineers on demand

A hand-picked network of 100+ principal engineers, directed by one architectural vision. Enterprise rigour without the bureaucracy.

Start with the Readiness Sprint. Then keep it running.

The Readiness Sprint

4 weeks · fixed scope · credited to your first retainer month

A board-readable Blueprint: an Infrastructure Sovereignty review, an Applied AI plan, an Institutional Resilience review, a governance Readiness Pack, and an engineering team and communication gaps analysis.

The Architect

Strategy & governance

I set the direction and hold the standard: security, AI governance, and architecture. Your team executes.

The Full Office

Fractional CTO/CISO + pod

The full fractional engineering office: strategy, a dedicated pod from our engineering network, and a live dashboard deployed in your environment.

$17,000/mo+

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By day 30, you'll know exactly what to build, how to govern it, and who should build it.

If you use our engineering network to execute the plan, the cost of the Sprint is credited toward your first retainer month.

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