About CTO Input

CTO Input gives CEOs, founders, CFOs, boards and investors independent technology, cybersecurity and AI leadership they can defend in any room. Sometimes that is a focused assessment or a rebuilt program. Sometimes it is an experienced executive in the seat. We tell you honestly which one you need.

Who we are

CTO Input is a team of career technology executives - CIOs, CTOs and CISOs - with decades of executive-level leadership across retail, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality and travel.

We have sat in the seat. We have faced boards, buyers and investors with hard questions, owned the budget, and lived with the outcomes of the decisions we now help you make. That is why our advice comes in business terms, not technical jargon.

The moments we step in

How we work

What we do

Companies call us when the stakes are real. We help organizations that are:

Preparing to be acquired, or acquiring a company

Cleaning up technical debt that is slowing the business down

Responding to a cybersecurity breach or governance failure

Working toward a regulatory compliance goal

Trying to move faster, with more agility and more room to innovate

Improving how they serve their customers

Unsure what they are getting from an MSP or technology provider

Facing a customer asking for security evidence they cannot yet produce

If one of these sounds familiar, you are exactly who CTO Input was built for.

A note from our founder

Common questions

What does CTO Input do? We provide independent technology, cybersecurity and AI leadership: focused assessments and projects, plus fractional and interim CIO, CTO and CISO leadership, for companies facing high-stakes decisions.

Who do you work with? CEOs, founders, CFOs, boards and investors, and the attorneys and advisors who support them.

Do you replace our IT team or providers? No. We give your existing people and partners clear direction, honest oversight, and an experienced executive to lean on.

How do we start? With a Decision-Clarity Call. Bring us the decision, the deadline, and what success looks like, and we will tell you plainly what you need.

Ready to decide with confidence? Book a Decision-Clarity Call at ctoinput.com/book-a-clarity-call or write to info@ctoinput.com.

Every engagement starts with a conversation about the decision in front of you, and ends with your team stronger.

Talk it through. A Decision-Clarity Call to name the decision, the deadline, and what success looks like.

Agree the role and the outcome. Fractional, interim, or a defined project, with measures set up front.

Decide and execute. We lead the work, report against those measures, and leave your team stronger.

Our commitment is independent judgment, including advice you may not expect. We never build an engagement that makes you dependent on us.

Often it is the leader carrying the problem who calls us. Just as often it is someone advising that leader - an attorney, an M&A advisor, a board member or an investor who wants an independent, experienced voice in the room.

CTO Input was founded by Tyson Martin, a multi-time technology and security executive who has led through breach response, ownership transitions, and regulated industry launches. He started the firm so no CEO would have to face a high-stakes technology decision without an independent voice in their corner.

Each service is built around a situation you may be facing, and ends in an outcome you can measure.

Deal readiness and integration - technology that helps the deal instead of slowing it: exposure assessment, diligence preparation, separation and integration planning, and interim leadership through the transaction

Independent technology governance - an honest review of what your providers deliver, ending in a clear call: keep, fix, or replace

Incident and governance recovery - we take control of the recovery, rebuild the cybersecurity program, and assemble the evidence insurers, customers, regulators and boards ask for

Security and compliance for growth - the governance, risk management and evidence larger customers demand, so security reviews stop stalling revenue

Interim leadership - an experienced CIO, CTO or CISO in the seat when you have never had one, or the one you had is gone

AI strategy and governance - a practical AI roadmap tied to how your business makes money, with guardrails your board can stand behind