Access Capability

Senior firepower,
without the full-time hire.

Tap into fractional leaders, advisors and operators who have already done it in defence, at the stage you need them.

The Problem

You don't always need a full-time hire.

Most defence founders hit the same wall: they need senior commercial, technical or government experience long before they can afford a full-time executive. The result is hires made too early, the wrong way round, or not at all, while the company carries risks a more experienced operator would have closed in a week.

The Cost of Waiting

Months of avoidable mistakes, mis-priced contracts and unanswered MoD conversations. Hiring the wrong full-time exec is a multi-hundred-thousand pound error you don't have to make.

How Gridline solves it

Three steps, no cold outreach.

01

Define the gap

Tell us the skill, the moment and the level of seniority you actually need, not the title you think you should hire.

02

Match to proven operators

Fractional CTOs, advisors, programme directors and ex-prime operators who have already scaled defence companies.

03

Engage on your terms

A few days a month, a defined engagement, or a path to full-time. Start where the value is, scale when it earns it.

What you get

Built for how defence really moves.

Connect with fractional leaders, advisors and operators who have already scaled defence companies. Get the experience you need at the stage you need it, without committing to a full-time hire.

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Fractional & advisory bench
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Fractional CTO, Autonomy
12 yrs, ex-prime
Fractional
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Advisor, MoD Procurement
Ex DE&S, 20 yrs
Advisor
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Interim VP Engineering
Scaled Series A to C
Interim
Trusted across the defence ecosystem
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Get the experience now. Hire the headcount later.