Urgent decision
We need a strong recommendation before committing budget
You have a vendor, architecture, automation, or AI proposal and need an independent read before spending time, money, or team trust.
Fractional CTO advisory with Rajesh Chawla
Make your next technology decision with confidence.
For founders and operating leaders facing a costly workflow, conflicting data, or an AI pilot with no clear path to scale: get an independent recommendation and a practical next step your team can own.
- Find the decision or workflow worth improving first.
- Choose between process change, integration, rules, ML, and agents—not AI by default.
- Set ownership, controls, and success measures before scaling.
- Give your existing team a practical sequence of next steps.
When the next move is unclear
You should not have to fund a guess.
Reports disagree, manual handoffs consume time, or an AI demo looks promising without a safe route into daily operations. It is frustrating to be accountable for the result when the options, owners, and evidence are still unclear.
Your investment deserves a decision grounded in the work your people actually do—not pressure to adopt a fashionable tool.
An experienced guide
You need someone who understands both the decision and the systems behind it.
I know how hard it is to make a sound call when data, vendors, and delivery constraints pull in different directions. I bring 25+ years in enterprise data integration, engineering leadership, cloud architecture, and ML systems, including work at SAP/Sybase, Oracle, startups, and CraftingData.
My recent work spans agentic optimization, streaming anomaly detection, evaluation, and production observability. I help you test the tradeoffs; your organization remains in charge of the decision and delivery.
A simple plan
Three steps from uncertainty to a decision your team can act on
- Tell me what is at stake. Share the decision, its owner, and why it matters now.
- Agree on a focused scope. Choose triage, a two-week sprint, or reserved advisory time; confirm deliverables and price before starting.
- Move forward with evidence. Get recommendations, tradeoffs, owners, and a practical next step for your team or partner to execute.
Which situation fits you?
Choose the path that matches the decision in front of you
Fragmented workflow
Our data, reporting, and handoffs are not reliable
You know the workflow matters, but consensus is weak, ownership is unclear, and no one can agree on the right place to start.
AI pilot
We have a prototype, but not a production path
Your team can show a demo, but the real questions are permissions, controls, quality, reliability, cost, and accountable ownership.
Ongoing leadership
We need senior technical guidance without a full-time CTO
You want a trusted partner for roadmap conversations, architecture tradeoffs, vendor evaluation, and decision discipline on a recurring basis.
Ways to work together
Get only the level of help your decision requires
Focused decision
Architecture Triage
One high-stakes question, a working session, and a concise written decision memo. $2,000 fixed fee.
Two-week sprint
Decision Automation & Data Readiness
Identify one valuable workflow, its data and handoffs, and a realistic 90-day direction. $7,500–$10,000, scoped in advance.
Two-week sprint
AI Agent & ML Production Readiness
Assess one existing initiative’s controls, evaluation, and path to a staged rollout. $7,500–$10,000, scoped in advance.
Ongoing leadership
Fractional CTO & Decision Systems Architect
Reserved senior decision and architecture guidance for your leadership and delivery teams. From $8,000/month; scope and capacity agreed in writing.
What changes for you
Know what to do next—and what not to fund yet.
Leave with a defensible choice, an owner, a way to measure progress, and a sequence your team or delivery partner can carry out. You may choose to pilot, fix the foundation first, change direction, or stop. The aim is to make that choice before another quarter disappears into uncertainty.