Peer review & community

CTO Grand
Rounds

A curated panel of senior fractional CTOs reviewing real technical and organisational problems for founders and scale-up leadership teams, live. Neil sits on the Attending Panel for selected sessions.

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CTO Grand Rounds

A monthly session where independent senior fractional CTOs diagnose real technical problems for founders — live, on camera, with a written follow-up within forty-eight hours.

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Two cases Reviewed per session
45 minutes Live, per case
48 hours Written follow-up
Sessions

Cases reviewed

Each session brings two or three independent fractional CTOs together to question a live technical or organisational problem — the panel is free to disagree with each other, and the founder leaves with a written diagnosis rather than a single unchallenged opinion. This page collects the sessions Neil has taken part in.

  • LinkEDtohome — Scaling, safeguarding and AI governance
    Second session · 26 August 2026 · Founder: Susie Williams

    Susie Williams, CEO and co-founder of LinkEDtohome — which supports schools, parents and pupils with consistent safeguarding and wellbeing — brought the company’s next stage of growth to the panel: how to think about scaling the team and the technology together, and the questions of AI liability, training and governance that come with it. Neil Catton and Jerome MacGillivray reviewed the case together, curated by Jane Vyshnova, Founder of CTO Grand Rounds. Both panellists already knew the realities of working in education, safeguarding included, so the session started at the problem rather than at the briefing.

    “The most useful part for me was how well matched Neil and Jerome were to our business.” Susie Williams, CEO & Co-Founder, LinkEDtohome
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  • EURYAN — Engineering AI Validation
    First virtual session · 7 July 2026 · Founder: David Carroll

    David Carroll, founder of EURYAN (engineering backgrounds spanning Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus, and McLaren), brought a live case to the panel — contingency planning for enterprise clients, and whether customers will accept the technical moat EURYAN is building around. Neil Catton and Edoardo Turelli reviewed the case together, curated by Jane Vyshnova, Founder of CTO Grand Rounds.

    “The level of seniority and experience the fractional CTOs brought stood out most.” David Carroll, Founder, EURYAN
    Read the session write-up ↗

More sessions are added here as they happen.

Why this fits.

Fractional and interim technology leadership depends on judgement formed outside any single organisation. Grand Rounds sessions are one place that judgement gets tested in the open — a live case, a panel that disagrees where it disagrees, and a founder who leaves with something usable rather than a verdict agreed before the call started.

Neil takes part as one of the Attending Panel's fractional CTOs, alongside a rotating group of senior technology leaders drawn from across the network. Sessions vary case to case — this page collects the ones he has been part of, as they happen.

Elsewhere

Interview / podcast

A recorded conversation with CTO Grand Rounds is in the works. Details to follow once it's confirmed.