DGTL Advisory
Senior-Level Guidance Without the Full-Time Overhead
Fractional CTO, CMO, and CISO leadership plus strategic consulting, embedded inside your team alongside the practices that actually ship the work. Quito HQ. Same business day as your team. Americas-native.
You're at an inflection point. Your product has traction, your team is growing, and the decisions you make in the next 6 months will define the next 3 years.
But your leadership team has gaps. You need someone who's done this before, who can pressure-test your GTM strategy, evaluate whether your tech stack can support your ambitions, or lead your engineering org through a critical growth phase. Someone who can sit in the board meeting and the sprint planning session.
A full-time executive hire takes 4 to 6 months to find and close, costs $250K to $400K+ in total compensation, and carries significant risk if the fit isn't right. You don't need someone full-time. You need someone experienced, now.
Better together
Hiring DGTL for one practice works. Here is why most engagements use more than one.
Advisory works closely with every DGTL practice. That's by design, strategic advice without execution capability is just opinions. When Advisory recommends a GTM strategy, Marketing and Sales can execute it. When Advisory identifies a technology gap, Build and Data can close it. When Advisory structures a compliance narrative, Secure can implement the controls behind it. When Advisory defines brand positioning, Studio can bring it to life. This is what separates DGTL Advisory from a standalone consulting firm: every recommendation can be executed by the same team that made it.
How we staff Advisory
Every engagement lands the seniority your scope needs. No bait-and-switch between the sales call and the kickoff. No junior-heavy delivery teams behind a Principal on the deck.
15+ years
Principal Advisor
Former CXO or senior operator at a production B2B company. Handles board-level work, fundraising support, and the hardest strategic decisions.
8 to 12 years
Senior Consultant
Runs specific advisory engagements: GTM strategy, org design, technology due diligence, pricing strategy.
4 to 7 years
Mid Strategy Specialist
Supports the principal on research, analysis, and stakeholder interviews. Handles the day-to-day of an ongoing fractional engagement.
variable
Domain Specialist
Deep expertise in a specific function (compliance, data strategy, product-led growth, AI governance). Brought in for the slice of the engagement that needs real depth.
DGTL Readiness Index
The Advisory dimension, before and after.
The Advisory dimension measures strategic clarity: ICP clarity, pricing discipline, org design maturity, and the quality of the decisions the exec team can actually defend to a board. We move it by embedding fractional leadership inside the team that delivers, not as a detached advisor on a weekly call.
Day 1, typical pre-engagement
2.0 / 5
Day 90, after cross-practice work
3.5 / 5
Median delta across 90-day engagements: +1.5 points. Composite profile from discovery engagements with mid-market companies. See the full 8-dimension framework.
What we do
Every module ships with senior practice leads, clear deliverables, and measurable outcomes. Engagements combine the modules you need into one scoped program.
Fractional CTO
Senior engineering leadership on a part-time basis, covering architecture, hiring, vendor decisions, and board-level technology reporting.
Fractional CMO
Senior marketing leadership covering positioning, pipeline, team build, and budget ownership for companies between founder-led and full CMO.
Fractional CISO
Security leadership for firms that need a CISO signature and program ownership without the full-time hire, including board reporting.
Fractional COO and CPO
Operations and product leadership on a fractional basis, focused on process design, org scaling, and cross-functional execution.
Go-to-Market Strategy
ICP, positioning, pricing, and channel strategy work, delivered as a plan the team can run rather than a slide deck.
Digital Transformation
Transformation roadmaps for mid-market firms modernizing core systems, data, and customer-facing digital surfaces together.
M and A Technology Diligence
Technical, security, and product diligence for buyers and sellers, with clear red flags, integration cost estimates, and risk ratings.
Organizational Design
Org charts, leveling, and team topology work for engineering, product, and revenue orgs crossing the 50 and 150 employee thresholds.
Pricing Strategy
Packaging, pricing tiers, and monetization work grounded in buyer research, unit economics, and competitor teardown.
Fundraising Support
Narrative, data room, and diligence prep for Series A through C rounds, with technical and commercial sections both covered.
Competitive Analysis
Deep competitor teardowns for product, pricing, and messaging, written for the exec team rather than the marketing blog.
Build vs Buy Analysis
Decision frameworks and recommendations on whether to build in-house, buy a vendor, or partner, with cost and risk modeling.
Technology Assessment
Independent reviews of platforms, teams, and roadmaps, with prioritized action plans boards and investors can act on.
Board Advisory
Board-level technology and digital advisory for portfolio companies and operating firms, attending quarterly with written pre-reads.
Interim Leadership
Interim executives placed for 3 to 9 month engagements during transitions, turnarounds, and critical hires for CTO, CISO, and CMO seats.
How it works
Strategic Assessment
We spend 1 to 2 weeks learning your business, product, market, team, operations, financials, and the competitors you're actually up against. We interview stakeholders, review data, and identify the critical decisions and bottlenecks.
Framework & Recommendations
We develop a strategic framework built for your situation, not a generic playbook. Recommendations are specific, actionable, and tied to measurable outcomes. You get a roadmap with clear priorities, timelines, and owners.
Execution Support
For engagements that require it, we provide hands-on execution support, leading meetings, managing workstreams, making hiring decisions, or representing your company in board meetings and investor conversations.
Fractional Leadership
For companies that need sustained executive presence, we embed a fractional CTO, CMO, or CISO into your leadership team on an ongoing basis, typically 2 to 3 days per week for 3 to 12 months.
Transition & Handoff
When you're ready for a full-time hire, we help define the role, evaluate candidates, and ensure a smooth transition. The goal is to build something sustainable, not create dependency.
Engagement models
Three ways to buy Advisory engagements. The difference is what happens at the end.
Same team underneath all three. One MSA, one SOW per engagement. What changes is how long you commit, what flexes once work starts, and who sits on the team. We scope every engagement to what you’re building instead of dropping you into a published tier.
01Project | 02Retainer | 03Embedded Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the end | ProjectIt ends. | RetainerIt keeps going. | Embedded TeamIt renews. |
| Ideal stage | ProjectPre-launch, MVP, redesign, audit, certification | RetainerGrowth phase, ongoing optimization, scaling | Embedded TeamScale phase, fractional executive leadership |
| Commitment | Project4–16 weeks | RetainerMonth-to-month after a 3-month minimum | Embedded TeamQuarterly, renewable |
| How it starts | ProjectPaid discovery sprint (1–2 weeks) | RetainerKickoff + priorities alignment session | Embedded TeamTeam matching + onboarding week |
| Who’s on it | ProjectCross-practice squad assembled for your project | RetainerDedicated team lead + rotating specialists | Embedded TeamFull-time embedded specialists |
| What flexes | ProjectDefined deliverables and timeline | RetainerFlexible within allocated hours | Embedded TeamFlexible within team capacity |
| Where we’d start | We’d start with a Retainer: fractional leadership works in quarters, not deliverables. | ||
Not sure which one fits? Tell us what you’re working on and we’ll recommend the right model based on your goals, timeline, and budget.
We custom-scope every engagement. Most focused engagements start in the five figures, and multi-practice transformations scale into the six and seven figures. Retainers and embedded teams are priced monthly, based on seniority and hours.
See the full comparisonResults
Metrics from recent DGTL Advisory engagements:
Enterprise deal
Unblocked
Compliance narrative and vendor questionnaire support for a healthtech startup
Fundraising
Eight-figure Series B
GTM strategy and growth metrics directly supported fundraising narrative
Time to strategy
2 weeks
From first conversation to actionable roadmap with clear priorities
Decision quality
Measurable
Board-level advisory for B2B companies making build/buy/partner decisions
What clients say
“A DGTL principal embedded with us two days a week, restructured our eng org, and helped us hire the right full-time CTO when we were ready. Worth every peso.”
Founder & CEO, Proptech
Representative example. Roles and industries are shown; specific companies and individuals are not identified until signed releases are available.
Our stack
The 15 tools we reach for most. We use plenty of others when the engagement calls for them.
Quito HQ, delivery across the Americas
UTC-5 all year, an hour or less from your East Coast team in either season. Bilingual English and Spanish. No handoff at 5pm, and nothing waits overnight when the US clocks change in March and November.
Why this matters
The problem
You need a CTO’s judgment but can’t justify a $350K hire. Your biggest strategic decisions are being made without senior experience at the table, and the cost of getting them wrong is measured in quarters, not weeks.
What we do about it
We provide fractional executive leadership and strategic consulting, experienced operators who embed with your team, help you make the hard calls, and build the foundation for your permanent hire.
What you get
You get senior-level guidance at a fraction of the cost, make better decisions faster, and hire the right permanent leader when you’re actually ready, instead of rushing a hire you can’t afford to get wrong.
Frequently asked questions
Ready for senior-level guidance?
Tell us about the decision you’re facing. We’ll help you think it through, and execute on it.