SCALE — CONSULTING / vCIO
A technical advisor in the room — without a full-time hire.
vCIO isn't a slide deck. It's quarterly planning, sober tradeoffs, and someone who can answer 'should we do this?' with both technical depth and business context.
A QUARTERLY ENGAGEMENT, ON ONE PAGE
12 weeks from read-in to readout.
Read-in
Stack inventory, vendor list, risk register. We listen more than we talk.
Decision day
Tradeoffs on paper. You pick. We commit dates and dollars.
Execute
Migrations, cutovers, hiring help. Weekly status, no slide decks.
Readout
What changed, what it cost, what's next quarter's roadmap.
- 01
Quarterly technology roadmap
A short, honest document: what we're doing, what we're deferring, what it costs, and what risk we accept by waiting.
- 02
Budgeting & vendor strategy
Real run-rate numbers for IT, security, and SaaS — and which contracts to renegotiate before the auto-renewal.
- 03
Migrations & cutovers
M365 ↔ Workspace, on-prem to cloud, identity provider swaps, file-share to OneDrive/Drive. Planned, staged, communicated.
- 04
Stack decisions
We've shipped on enough stacks to be opinionated and unattached. We'll tell you when 'boring' is the right answer.
- 05
M&A due diligence (IT)
Buying or being bought: an honest read on the IT estate, license exposure, security debt, and integration cost.
- 06
Hiring & org design
When to hire your first internal IT person, what to look for, and how to structure the handoff with us.