Hiring a full-time executive takes six months and costs $200,000 annually. For companies with immediate technical problems, this timeline is incompatible with survival. Fractional leadership corrects a market inefficiency by separating expertise from time.
Technical due diligence reveals what investors truly care about. It is not test coverage or velocity. It is whether your technology can deliver what your business promises, whether your team can build what comes next, and whether you understand the risks.
When servers crash from full disks, the problem is not mysterious bugs but basic observability. A client was paying three times what they needed for compute, just to store logs. The fix was straightforward. The lesson is universal.