About

Independent advisory grounded in real delivery.

CTO Advisory is led by Adam Beaton, an experienced CTO, enterprise architect and transformation leader with experience across fintech, retail, real estate, events, energy and regulated environments.

Practical advice for high-consequence technology decisions.

CTO Advisory brings together strategic technology leadership, architecture depth and transformation delivery experience. The focus is not theory. It is helping clients make better decisions where technology affects value, resilience, growth or delivery confidence.

Scale-up leadership

Former fintech CTO with executive responsibility across architecture, engineering, product, data, cyber and operations.

Enterprise transformation

Experience architecting and assuring major programmes, including global programmes with budgets up to £80m.

Independent challenge

Advice focused on evidence, risk and decision quality, not selling unnecessary implementation work.

Selected outcomes

Fintech scale-up

Scaled a financial services platform from launch to 70,000 customers in one year.

Global programmes

Programmes architected and assured with budgets up to £80m.

Cost optimisation

Delivered 40 percent infrastructure cost savings through cloud architecture redesign.