Services
Fractional CTO leadership for the work around the software.
Brokenhouse helps SaaS teams move from fast delivery to trustworthy operation: Azure foundations, data protection, governance, production readiness, customer evidence and agentic delivery with guardrails.
Advisory service
POC to Production CTO Playbook
A staged advisory engagement for SaaS teams moving from idea to Pilot and Production without losing control of governance, data, cost or reliability.
Founders and product teams that can build quickly, but need a senior technology leader to define what must exist before customers depend on the platform.
Typical outcomes
- Clear POC, Pilot and Production stage gates.
- Production readiness plan covering access, data, deployment, recovery and cost.
- Practical decisions on what to defer, what to govern, and what to make customer-ready.
Advisory service
Azure Foundations and Landing Zone
Azure and Microsoft 365 foundations for small SaaS teams: identity, domains, DNS, subscriptions, environments, private networking and production access.
Teams choosing Azure as their operating base and needing a pragmatic landing zone before Pilot or Production.
Typical outcomes
- Identity, PIM, break-glass, device and admin access model.
- Environment structure for POC, Pilot and Production workloads.
- Private endpoint, Front Door, firewall and VPN direction when the platform matures.
Advisory service
Data Protection and Customer Trust
Data governance, DPIA, Controller/Processor decisions, privacy evidence and customer trust packs that help SaaS teams pass early due diligence.
Companies starting to handle staff, customer or Pilot-user data and needing confidence before external onboarding.
Typical outcomes
- DPIA and data inventory direction.
- Controller/Processor position and customer-safe data protection narrative.
- Trust-pack content for procurement, onboarding and security questionnaires.
Advisory service
Production Governance and Assurance
The operating model before Production: access control, change control, incident response and recovery, penetration testing, backup evidence and risk acceptance.
SaaS teams leaving Pilot and preparing to make operational promises to customers, investors or partners.
Typical outcomes
- Production access and change governance model.
- Incident response and recovery split, including return-to-control after emergency changes.
- Penetration test, backup restore and operational evidence plan.
Advisory service
Agentic Delivery with Guardrails
AI-assisted delivery that improves speed without losing review, source control, decision records, security boundaries or human accountability.
Teams adopting agents in the SDLC and needing a governance model that clients, staff and investors can trust.
Typical outcomes
- Rules for AI tools, source code, prompts, logs, secrets and customer data.
- Review model for agent-generated code, documentation and operational changes.
- Decision-record structure that helps people and agents understand context.
Advisory service
Fractional CTO Leadership
Senior technology leadership on a flexible basis: strategy, architecture, delivery oversight, team enablement and board-level technical judgement.
SMEs, startups and scaleups that need experienced CTO direction without hiring a full-time executive.
Typical outcomes
- Clear technical priorities linked to business goals.
- Architecture and delivery decisions made visible to leadership.
- Calmer engineering execution with enough governance to scale.
