ALTMODE / 00 / Interim and fractional CTO · Gothenburg and remote

Technology leadership for companies changing shape.

When the platform, the organisation or the plan has to change faster than the current setup allows, I step in as CTO, CIO or technology lead. I also help leadership teams turn AI from a board topic into something that pays for itself. Interim, fractional or advisory, across the Nordics and remote in Europe.

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ALTMODE / 01 / When companies call

Four situations I'm brought in for.

Modernise the platform

Legacy product, cloud pressure, customers waiting. A target architecture the teams can build towards, and a sequence that keeps shipping while it happens.

Rebuild the engineering organisation

Product, platform, project and integration functions with clear ownership, product owner leadership and governance a board can read.

Recover a programme

Scope cut, capacity gone, milestones at risk. Resequence the work and the delivery model so the commitments that matter still land.

Set an AI direction that holds

Tooling rolled out across development, and a clear line on where AI belongs inside the product. Adoption and governance, not slides.

Three ways to work together.

Contracted through Altmode AB. Hourly or daily rate, agreed per assignment.

Interim CTO or CIO

Full time or close to it, 3 to 12 months. A seat in the management team while you recruit, rebuild or recover.

Fractional CTO

One to three days a week over a longer period. Senior technology judgment for companies that do not need a full-time executive yet.

Advisory and board

Technical due diligence, architecture reviews, board-level technology input and a second opinion before a large commitment.

ALTMODE / 02 / AI, without the hype

The board wants an AI plan. Nobody knows where to start.

Most companies are in the same place: a few people trying ChatGPT, a vendor pitch or two, and no clear idea where AI would actually move margin, cut lead times or free up people.

I start from the business, not the technology. Where does time go, where does money leak, which decisions are slow. Then we test AI on two or three of those with real data, measure the result, and decide what to scale and what to drop.

AI kickstart

Six to eight weeks. Scope and price agreed after a first conversation about where you are.

MapTalk to management and the people doing the work. Find where AI could actually pay, and where it will not.

PilotTry one to three ideas on real data and real processes, each with a number to beat.

GovernA usage policy people follow, data and GDPR rules, EU AI Act exposure, tool and vendor choices.

DecideResults on one page, a prioritised roadmap with owners, and a straight answer on what is not worth doing.

Talk about an AI kickstart

For industrial and product companiesManufacturing, distribution, connected products. Places where AI meets ERP data, quotes, service and planning.

For regulated environmentsMedtech and life science, where validation, traceability and GxP decide what you can and cannot automate.

For engineering teamsAI tooling rolled out across development, with the guardrails that keep code, IP and customer data where they belong.

ALTMODE / 03 / Approach

Listen, agree the mandate, deliver, hand over.

Two weeks of listening

Interviews, architecture and code walkthroughs, customer calls. You get a written read-out of what I see, including the uncomfortable parts.

A mandate on one page

The three to five outcomes that matter, with owners and dates. Signed off by the CEO before anything changes.

Delivery, then handover

Work the plan alongside the team, report in plain numbers, and leave an organisation that runs without me.

ALTMODE / 04 / Track record

Connected products, regulated customers, global teams.

96people in one product and technology organisation, Qmatic

13international subsidiaries on one platform direction

15products in a reorganised global software organisation, Biosero

300+device drivers behind one orchestration platform

Previously

Biosero (BICO Group) · Elos Medtech · Qmatic · Svenska Mässan Group · SKIDATA

Familiar territory

Laboratory automation, medtech, connected devices and cloud software. GxP, ISO 13485, ISO 27001 and GDPR are normal working conditions.

ALTMODE / 05 / About

Andreas Glänfält

Twenty years in technology, most of it as CTO, CDO or CIO on executive management teams: laboratory automation software at Biosero, regulated medtech manufacturing at Elos Medtech, connected hardware and cloud software at Qmatic.

The common thread is connected products with software behind them, sold to demanding customers, often under regulation. I work in Swedish and English, from Gothenburg.

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ALTMODE / 06 / Contact

Tell me what's changing.

A few lines are enough. It comes straight to me, not to a sales team, and I reply within one working day.

Gothenburg, Sweden