Technology leadership · Education & EdTech
Fractional CTO for Education & EdTech
Senior technology leadership on a fraction of a full-time hire — strategy, architecture, and a team that ships.
Why it matters in education & edtech
You're handling children's data and often sit inside safeguarding-critical workflows. Schools, trusts and universities buy on trust — and increasingly won't sign until you can evidence that your platform is secure and compliant.
- →Protecting children's data under UK GDPR and the Age-Appropriate Design (Children's) Code
- →Passing school, multi-academy trust and university security and data-protection due diligence to win deals
- →Meeting the DfE's cyber security standards for schools and wider safeguarding expectations
- →Turning AI features into something schools can adopt safely — with the right guardrails around minors
What you get
- ✓Technology strategy and a costed, sequenced roadmap tied to business goals
- ✓Architecture and platform decisions, with the trade-offs written down
- ✓Engineering leadership: hiring, structure, delivery cadence, and standards
- ✓Vendor, cloud, and AI tooling selection — and the contracts to match
- ✓A board- and investor-ready narrative for what you're building and why
Frameworks & standards
UK GDPRChildren's Code (AADC)DfE cyber standardsCyber EssentialsISO 27001
How we work in education & edtech
We help EdTech teams build the security and data-protection story that unlocks education deals — privacy by design, credible safeguarding controls, and the evidence buyers' due-diligence teams actually ask for.