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Fractional CTO/CPO · Product companies · AI in production

A working CTO/CPO. Part-time. Accountable for what ships.

Vibagentic puts a senior technology and product leader inside your company, without a full-time hire. Strategy, roadmaps and architecture, yes. Also team organisation, delivery performance, and bringing AI into systems people rely on.

Twenty years as CTO and technology executive on platforms that could not go down. The same standard now applied to AI and agents.

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20+ years CTO of mission-critical SaaS
100% uptime 24/7 platform serving live traffic
120-person org led through product, cloud & operating change
Why this exists

Most AI advice stops at the slide.

I sit in the seat. That means product and engineering decisions, not a handover document. If agents are part of the work, they get the same reliability, ownership and review as the rest of the stack: evaluations, guardrails, on-call, the lot.

What I do

Three ways to work together.

An ongoing seat, a focused push to get AI live, or independent advice for the board.

Retainer

Fractional CTO / CPO

For companies not ready to hire a full-time CTO or CPO.

  • Product and technology strategy and roadmap
  • Architecture and delivery calls
  • Hiring, team shape, operating rhythm
  • Board and investor reporting
  • AI treated as part of the product, not a side project
Best for: product companies that need senior leadership now, not a 12-month search.
Project

Get AI into production

For companies stuck in pilots.

  • Decide where agents actually earn their place
  • Evals, reliability, guardrails, fallback to humans
  • Build-vs-buy and model / tool choices
  • Engineers shipping with AI without losing engineering standards
  • A production path with an owner, not a demo
Best for: software teams with a prototype and no honest plan to run it.
Advisory

Board, PE and assurance

An independent read for the people funding the work.

  • Technical due diligence
  • AI and platform risk for boards and investors
  • Program assurance on large delivery
  • NIST AI RMF / ISO 27001-shaped governance that operators can run
Best for: chairs, PE, and CEOs who want an independent read before they spend.
A point of view

Most teams still use AI as a personal shortcut. Useful, but not an advantage. The advantage comes when the work itself changes: who does which step, what runs unattended, and who is accountable when it is wrong. Those are leadership questions as much as technical ones, and I work both.

Why Vibagentic

What you get instead of a consultancy.

Big consultancies and change firms can map your AI future. Vibagentic maps it, then leads the build and owns the result with you.

The typical AI consultancy
  • Advises on operating models and ways of working
  • Workshops, frameworks and a roadmap to hand over
  • A team of consultants; juniors do the delivery
  • Often tied to a platform or partner stack
  • Leaves you to build it, and to own the risk
Vibagentic
  • One senior operator, not a rotating team
  • In the product and engineering meetings, not only the workshop
  • Vendor-agnostic
  • Outcome owned with you
  • A fraction of a consultancy's cost, with no bench to feed
Who I work with

Who this is for.

Not a fit if you want a slide deck, a large team on site, or someone to implement a vendor you have already chosen.

Track record

Two decades of getting the hard stuff right.

10×addressable market, through new product and new-market entry
$100Mproduct line led at VMware
100%uptime on Queensland's 24/7 intelligent transport platform

No AI showcase to point to yet, and no jargon standing in for one. The same production discipline that kept a 24/7 platform running is what I bring to AI and agents.

GAICD MBA ISO 27001 NIST ASD NED · ITS Australia
Andrew Paynter, founder of Vibagentic
About

Andrew Paynter

Andrew Paynter is the founder of Vibagentic. Over 20 years he has been Chief Technology Officer, VP of Technology and Director of Engineering for mission-critical SaaS platforms, most recently as CTO of Transmax, leading a 120-person organisation running Queensland's 24/7 intelligent transport platform and shaping transport strategy for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.

His career spans VMware, Honeywell and SilverRail, delivering high-availability systems used by millions across Australia, the UK, Europe and the US. He holds an MBA and is a Graduate of the AICD (GAICD), and served as Non-Executive Director and FRAC Chair at ITS Australia.

Vibagentic is the vehicle for that work: fractional leadership, production AI, and board-level assurance. One person. Clear accountability.

CTO · 20+ years GAICD MBA Non-Executive Director ISO 27001 · NIST · ASD
Get in touch

Email me.

Send two or three sentences on the company, the role or the problem, and the timeframe. I reply within one business day. If it is a fit, we book a call.

Email andrew@vibagentic.com

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Based in Australia. Works with teams in Australia, the US and Europe.

Vibagentic Pty Ltd · Australia