Fractional executives, seat by seat
A fractional executive holds a real leadership seat two or three days a week. Not a consultant, not an agency: the job itself, done part-time. The full definition is here, and what fractional work means a step before it. Rates for every seat are on the 2026 day-rates page.
Owns the numbers, the runway, and what the business can actually afford.
Owns positioning, where the budget goes, and the pipeline number.
Owns architecture, hiring, and what it will really take to build.
Makes the company run without the founder in every decision.
Builds the sales function that lets the founder stop selling.
Owns the whole funnel, tested rather than assumed.
Decides what gets built, and more importantly what does not.
Hiring, structure, and the conversations nobody else will have.
Owns security posture and the questionnaire blocking your enterprise deal.
Makes your numbers trustworthy, then makes them useful.
Commercial legal judgement without a law firm's clock running.
Hiring outside the UK
Every rate above is in pounds and reflects the UK market. The same eleven seats are priced in dollars on US fractional day rates and in dirhams on UAE fractional day rates, each with what changes about classification, employer cost and tax in that market.
By industry
What changes about a seat in a given sector: the rule, the metric and the failure mode. Every seat and industry combination.
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Start a search →Hiring in one place rather than for one seat? Fractional executives in London covers who is on the bench there and what the seats go for.
Deciding which seat comes first
Choosing between these is usually a sequencing question rather than a seat question, and after a funding round it is the whole decision. Who to hire first after a raise takes it by stage: seed to Series A, the first ninety days, and the mistakes that cost the next round.