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CopperPress
Fractional CTO for publishers

The technical team your newsroom doesn't have.

Strategy, developers, hosting, and AI — one partner, on your team. We take things off your plate. We don't add to it.

  • 20 years in publishing
  • 17 inside business journals
  • No tech team required

The annual chart rebuild

40–60 hrs

Importing, formatting, reformatting the same data. Every single year.

After we automated it

4.5 hrs

Plain-English prompts. Your brand colors. Reproducible every year.

BizWest Media — real result, not a projection.

Sound familiar?
  • Your tech stack is held together with tape, and the only person who understood it left.
  • You're refereeing technology decisions nobody on your staff is equipped to make.
  • Every new tool promises to help and hands you another thing to manage.

You're not behind because you're not smart enough.

The flagship

A fractional CTO is a department, not a hire.

CTO-level leadership without the full-time cost — and behind it, the people who do the work: developers, frontend, operations. Strategy from Jacob, delivery from a real bench. A team doesn't vanish, go on vacation, or quit.

We took a daily human-in-the-middle process out of a publisher's paywall — and not a line of it needed AI.

Proof
BizWest New Jersey Monthly Streets of Toronto Montclair Local
"Jacob Fogg and CopperPress have been a tremendous resource as BizWest explores practical applications of AI across our organization. Jacob doesn't just talk about what's possible — he helps build solutions that save real time."
Chris Wood Publisher, BizWest Media

20 yrs

inside publishing

17 yrs

inside business journals

4 depts.

on the bench: dev, frontend, ops, content

The partnership

We're an extension of your team, not a vendor you manage.

Twenty years in web development, seventeen of them inside the business-journal industry. We have sat in your chair. You get a partner who answers, who knows publishing deadlines, and who tells you plainly when technology is not the answer.

A team does not vanish, go on vacation, or quit.

Press start

Find out where the hours are going.

The survey is free. The meeting is free. The recommendations are yours to keep either way.

Nothing to prepare. A few minutes per person.