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Advisory ROI

What does faster strategic decision-making save you?

Decision weeks recovered, opportunity cost reclaimed, fractional CTO breakeven — modeled on your decision cadence.

Your profile

Vendor choices, architecture pivots, build-vs-buy calls that the CTO weighs in on.

4 60

Calendar time from question raised to decision committed today.

1 wks 16 wks

What a week of stalled progress costs you (deal slip, eng idle, missed window).

$5,000 $100,000

Your blended cost for the engagement.

$5,000 $40,000

Decision-weeks recovered / year

Assumes ~60% reduction in decision delay with senior advisory in the loop.

Opportunity cost recovered / year

Decisions × weeks saved × opportunity cost.

Fractional CTO breakeven

Months until recovered opportunity covers the engagement fee.

Assumptions used in this model

  • · 60% reduction in decision delay with senior advisory in the loop — based on PLEXI internal benchmarks across fractional CTO engagements.
  • · Opportunity cost per delay week is your input — defaults to $25K (deal slip risk + engineering idle time + missed window).
  • · Fractional CTO fee defaults to $15K/month — adjust to match your engagement structure.
  • · Breakeven is capped at 36 months for legibility. Most engagements pay back within the first 2 quarters at the listed cadence.

These are PLEXI-internal benchmarks for first-pass sizing, not customer-validated numbers. Calibrate on a fit-check call.

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