Legacy infrastructure that’s reached the end of its useful life doesn’t just slow a business down, it blocks any real move into AI. Craig works with founders and CEOs running teams under 100 to transform that infrastructure: engineering it out, cutting the cost of running it, and building the technical foundation an AI-based transformation actually needs.

He’s a Fractional CTO based in Johannesburg with 20+ years of experience spanning manufacturing, defence, automation, legal and proptech, banking middleware, capital markets and payments. His background runs across major integrations for IBM, Oracle and AWS as well as hands-on work with clients like Unilever and African Defence Systems (Thales), and he’s held Sales Director and CTO roles at Ovations Group, Synthesis Software and E4 Group. He built the knowledge tree at know.2nth.ai as a working framework for getting systems AI-ready, and his expertise spans engineering-level specs, software architecture, and the sales and CRM maturity that lets a technical transformation actually land commercially.

His own practice reflects the same philosophy he brings to clients: he’s moved his own business away from selling hours toward executing technical platforms directly, applying AI-based transformation to legacy systems for SMEs and mid-sized tech businesses. It’s not advice he hasn’t tested on himself.

Craig works best with innovation-led teams who are ready to disrupt their own status quo rather than patch around it. If your infrastructure is holding your ambitions back, he’s the one who’ll rebuild it so it doesn’t.