Fractional CPO and CTO services built for engineering-led companies. Two senior practitioners, one practice — fixed-scope programs that ship working systems, ongoing advisory for the day-to-day, and specialist support when situations get hard.
Ideal fit
Stage
Typically 30–200 staff, where the People or Technology function needs more than a coordinator can deliver but doesn't yet justify a full-time executive hire.
Leadership
Technical founders who understand systems thinking and want both their People and Technology practices built the same way — deliberate, measurable, and documented.
Trigger moment
Preparing for international expansion, a fundraising milestone, a compliance audit like SOC2 or ISO27001, or the departure of a senior People or Technology leader — moments when getting it right compounds.
Fixed-fee engagements
Fixed-fee engagements that deliver working systems — across two tracks. Pick the one that matches your trigger, or combine tracks where the problem sits between them.
All pricing in AUD ex GST. Discovery call required before quoting.
Track
Led by Molly Rowe
People Program 1
Build a sustainable junior engineering talent pipeline that compounds over time.
$40–50k
12 weeks
People Program 2
Replace ad-hoc feedback with a system managers actually use.
$30–40k
10 weeks
People Program 3
Stop drowning your People team in manual work and audit findings.
$25–35k
8 weeks
People Program 4
Find out what's actually going on before exit interviews tell you.
$12–18k
4 weeks
People Program 5
Move from values on the wall to values in decisions.
$20–28k
8 weeks
People Program 6
Pay confidently and retain deliberately. A compensation system your managers can use and your candidates can respect.
From $28k
8 weeks
People Program 7
Bring talent acquisition in-house and stop paying agency fees for roles you'll hire repeatedly.
From $30k
8–14 weeks
People Program 8
Empower your teams to adopt AI with intent, not by accident.
$50–60k
8 weeks
Track
Led by Chris Fowles
Tech Program 1
Pressure-test the cloud platform you've grown into — before cost, reliability, or compliance forces the conversation.
$25–35k
4–6 weeks
Tech Program 2
A delivery system your engineering team can move quickly through without breaking things.
$30–40k
6–10 weeks
Tech Program 3
Move past prototypes — ship AI features your customers will actually use, and that you can run reliably.
$40–60k
8–12 weeks
Tech Program 4
Make your data a strategic asset, not a maintenance burden.
$30–40k
6–8 weeks
Tech Program 5
Reliability practices that hold up at scale-up pace, without the FAANG-style overhead.
$25–35k
6–8 weeks
Not sure which track or program fits? A 30-minute discovery call is enough to figure it out.
Ongoing support
For ongoing support, fractional leadership, and reactive specialist work across both disciplines.
Track
Led by Molly Rowe
Ongoing
Senior People expertise on tap, without the embedded cost.
$5–10k /month
Learn more →Specialist
Senior, experienced support for the situations where getting People process wrong carries real cost.
People process consulting, not legal advice.
From $450/hour
Learn more →The approach
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute discovery call. If the path is clear, we send a fixed-price proposal. If not, a 1-week paid scoping ($3k) ends with a concrete plan and locked price.
Weekly synchronous touchpoint, async collaboration in between. We work with your existing tools — no consulting platform to learn.
Every program ends with documentation your team can run from. We don't create dependency.
Capacity is deliberate. You get senior attention, not delegated work.
The people
Molly is a People & Culture leader with nearly a decade scaling People functions inside Australian tech companies. Most recently VP of People at RecordPoint (2022–2026), where she joined as Head of People & Culture in 2019 and built the People function across the company’s global operations — APAC, the USA, Canada, the UK, and Europe.
Outcomes during her seven-year tenure included a graduate program averaging 4+ year staff tenure, an 80%+ internal promotion rate at senior levels, 35%+ female engineering headcount, and the process automation that supports the company’s SOC2 compliance.
Before RecordPoint, Molly was a founding HR team member at Vibrato, growing the consultancy from 15 to 60 staff and establishing the Sydney region before the company was acquired by Servian in 2019. Earlier roles at IBM in cloud consulting and product management.
Currently completing a Masters of Law (Technology and IP) at UNSW.
Speaking credits include SXSW Sydney, PyCon, AWS, DevOps Days, and Transform.
The technology
Chris is a technology leader with nearly two decades across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud-native systems, and the organisational change that comes with them. At Metacosm he helps customers navigate the shifts reshaping technology delivery — AI adoption, data strategy, cloud, and DevOps/SRE.
Prior to founding Metacosm, he was Director of Technology at Plenti, Australia’s leading consumer fintech lender. There he established the data and AI practice, led the cloud platform strategy, and implemented the technology processes behind the company’s ISO 27001 certification.
Before Plenti, Chris was Head of Technology at Vibrato — the consultancy Molly helped grow — and spent over a decade at StarRez moving from technical support into systems administration and architecture where he designed and implemented thier initial cloud platform.
He has obtained architected and built production systems across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure and obtained professional certifications across all three clouds.
Speaking credits include Google Cloud Summit, Microsoft TechEd, AWS, Hashicorp, Databricks, Pagerduty, among others.
Metacosm is a services-first practice today, with tooling on the roadmap. We're using every engagement — across both People and Technology — to learn what scale-ups actually need at the seam between the two, and building toward products that compound those learnings.
