Benoit Veigneau · Hands-on CTO · In Bordeaux and anywhere remotely
A tech team that delivers. Costs you understand. AI that genuinely helps. A CTO since 2012, I bring this to leaders of SMEs, software companies and startups, without waiting until you have hired a full-time CTO.
An outside view in a few weeks, a CTO for the long run, or a hand to get AI out of the demo stage. Shaped by your situation, not by a catalogue.
In a few weeks, a clear view of your technology, your team and what they cost, with a 90-day action plan you can actually deliver.
Who it is for: Leaders who need to decide with full knowledge: before a fundraise, a key hire or a migration, or because IT has become a black box. Funds and acquirers who want to know what they are buying before an investment or an acquisition.
Learn more · Tech diagnostic & due diligenceA senior CTO at the pace you need: leading the team, the roadmap and the budget, hiring, making the calls, and reporting to the CEO.
Who it is for: Software companies and startups of 10 to 100 people that need technology leadership without the cost of a full-time role. SMEs and mid-sized companies between two CIOs, through interim management firms.
Learn more · Fractional CTOChoosing the use cases worth pursuing, scoping them, and delivering them to your customers or your teams. I have put language models into production at a software company, and I use AI agents every day.
Who it is for: Leaders and product teams who have seen the demos, and now want a product, or a measurable gain, that runs. And runs true.
Learn more · Applied AI & productsSituations I have lived through as a CTO, and what they can bring you. Anonymised, with figures given as orders of magnitude.
Organisation · group · 60+ people, in-house and contractors
Outcome in this case: organisation chart redesigned, project-based management, QA function created.
Read the case · Reorganising a tech team of more than 60 peopleAI in production · software company
Outcome in this case: translation, semantic search, transcription and summarisation delivered to customers.
Read the case · Putting language models into productionBudget · group · several entities
Outcome in this case: savings of more than 30% on monthly recurring costs. For you, the diagnosis will show what is possible.
Read the case · Taking back control of an IT budgetThe same one, whether for a few weeks of diagnosis or a long-term mandate.
I listen to the teams, I read the code and the numbers. Within a few weeks, you have a clear diagnosis and priorities.
Roles, priorities, rituals and budget: an organisation the team can sustain without me.
What was decided is delivered, measured, then taken over by the team. I stay as long as is useful, no longer.
Hands-on, because I still write code myself, I read the numbers line by line, and I go and see teams where they work, in Bordeaux or on the other side of the world.
I am also used to talking to finance people: finance directors, investment funds and acquirers. I have led several technical audits ahead of an acquisition or an equity investment, to say what a technology is really worth, its risks and what it will cost to scale.
CTO at five companies: e-commerce, connected devices, an AI software company, a large group. I have built, reorganised and led teams from a handful of people to more than 90, in France and abroad.
I built my first PC at 11 and have been writing code since I was 12. Today I also use AI agents as an accelerator, with the same standards of specs, tests and reviews.
Book 30 minFive technology leadership roles. Each time, a team to build or put back on its feet, a budget to hold, a product to keep running.
Since 2024
CTO Payments, Service and Innovation
Technology transformation of three business lines.
What I bring you from it: bringing order to an organisation that grew fast, and cutting costs without breaking what works.
2019 to 2024
CTO · conversational AI software company
What I bring you from it: building a team from very little, and putting AI into production, not just into a demo.
2017 to 2019
CTO · connected devices
What I bring you from it: getting software, hardware and time zones to work together, and hiring fast without hiring badly.
2012 to 2017
CTO
What I bring you from it: the foundations: systems that handle money, where mistakes are unforgiving.
Alongside
CTO & Advisory Board · AI lecturer
Thirty minutes, by video call or in Bordeaux, to understand where you stand and tell you frankly whether I can help.
Book 30 minOr email me: contact@turnstrue.com