Built on Measurable Results, Not Billable Hours

Fractional CTO with a senior engineering team that executes. No hourly billing — payment comes from verified cost savings.

15+ years as CTO • 5 exits • Scaled teams to 80 engineers

Estimate Your Automation Savings

Payment tied to savings • No long-term commitment • Direct with CTO

"Irreplaceable partner who improved our outcomes." — Founder & CEO, Unotifi

Delivered Under Budget
€300K
European Union
Horizon 2020 Programme
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Yearly Cost Savings
€70K+
Operational Platform
Integration & Tooling
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PRODUCTIVITY GAIN
+40%
Orders Processed Per Person
Automation & Integration
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25+ Years Delivering Automation • 20+ Industries • Startup to Fortune 100

European Commission
WHO
Cisco
Disneyland
PetHealth
VIP Auto Parts and Tires
PushModels
Unotifi
“Instrumental in delivering a major global public health project” World Health Organization, Sr. Technical Officer, AI and Frontier Technologies (Geneva, Switzerland)
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No sales process • 30 min • Direct with CTO

How Pay From Savings works

Replace speculative ROI decks with a pricing model that aligns delivery with outcomes. We build, ship, and run custom software solutions that removes recurring operational cost—then you pay from the savings.

1) Baseline & savings map

We quantify operational pain into measurable cost (time, errors, delays, vendors). We agree the baseline, measurement method, and what counts as savings.

Output: savings model + KPI dashboard spec

2) Build software that creates savings

Fractional CTO leadership + senior engineers deliver custom production software: automation, integrations, portals, data pipelines, reporting, or modernization.

Output: shipped system in production

3) Fund it from realized savings

Your monthly payment is tied to verified savings from using the software and capped so total cost never exceeds the agreed share. Maintenance and support are included.

Output: predictable spend, positive ROI

Commercial structure

Designed to be easy to approve: small kickoff, capped monthly fee, and a total cost that cannot overrun the agreed savings share.

  • Kickoff fee — discovery + baseline + delivery plan
  • Milestone payment — first production release
  • Monthly savings-share — paid only while savings are realized
  • Total cap — never exceeds the agreed savings share
  • Support included — monitoring, fixes, and incremental improvements
Example (illustrative)
€180k/year
measured operational savings
  • Kickoff: €3,000
  • Milestone: €10,000 (first production release)
  • Monthly: €3,000 (capped, funded from savings)
  • Total Year-1 cap: €49,000
Estimate your savings
Net-positive cash flow once savings are realized.

Execution. Not Slides.

Real savings. Measured impact. Delivered under pressure.

€300K
Delivered under budget
EU Commission Programme
€70K+
Yearly savings
Operational platform redesign
40%+
Orders processed
per person
Bogdan Bucura – CEO & CTO
Accountable delivery ownership

Pay From Savings works because delivery is owned end-to-end by a CEO-level CTO with deep operational experience. Architecture, delivery priorities, and measurable outcomes are not delegated to layers of account managers — they are owned.

Delivery led by Bogdan Bucura — CEO & CTO, 25+ years building and scaling cost-sensitive, operations-driven software.

What qualifies for Pay From Savings

This works best when there is recurring operational cost you can measure today—and remove with software.

Automation & throughput

Manual workflows, rekeying data, spreadsheets, email-based operations, handoffs, approvals.

Errors, penalties, compliance

Costly mistakes, chargebacks, missed SLAs, audit overhead, reporting workarounds.

Integration & consolidation

Reducing tool sprawl, vendor spend, duplicate systems, brittle integrations.

FAQ

How do you measure savings?

We agree a baseline and the measurement method up front (time studies, system logs, cycle-time, error rates, vendor spend, infrastructure cost). We track KPIs transparently and review them with you monthly.

What if savings are delayed?

Payments are tied to realized savings and capped. If adoption or operational change is required, we plan rollout explicitly (training, migration, change management) to avoid “software shipped but unused.”

Is this a long-term lock-in?

No. You own the code and can transition to internal ownership or a lighter support plan. The point is outcomes, not dependency.

What projects do not fit?

Pure R&D, speculative product bets, or projects without measurable operational impact. If savings can’t be measured, the model loses its anchor.


Free CTO Operational Review

Digital transformation, without management burden.

You stay focused on running the business. We handle discovery, architecture, execution, and delivery.

Simple process. Measurable outcomes.

1
Initial Review

CTO reviews your business and current challenges.

2
20-Minute Discussion

We quickly understand operations, systems and priorities.

3
Opportunity Assessment

Identify the highest-return automation and AI opportunities.

4
Practical Roadmap

Clear recommendations, expected savings and next steps.

Bogdan Bucura, Fractional CTO
Reviewed directly by Bogdan Bucura

Fractional CTO • 25+ years

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