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Fractional CIO & CTO

Technology decisions that move the business forward: owned, not outsourced.

The strategic weight of a full-time CIO or CTO, engaged part-time: one accountable executive owning your roadmap, your vendors, your infrastructure, and the numbers behind them.

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The problem we own

When no one leads technology, the business pays for it later.

Reactive, vendor-led decisions

Tooling gets chosen incident by incident, with no one accountable for how the pieces fit, or what they cost together.

A roadmap no one can see

Engineering, operations, and the board each carry a different mental model of where technology is headed. None of them agree.

Spend that only grows

Overlapping contracts, auto-renewals, and shelfware accumulate because no one owns the portfolio or renegotiates it.

Architecture outgrown by the business

What worked at 50 people strains at 400. The cost of not deciding compounds until a migration is forced on you.

What we actually do

The scope of a senior technology executive.

Concrete responsibilities, owned end to end. Not advice from the sidelines.

  1. 01
    Direction
    • Own the technology roadmap and align it to business strategy
    • Set architecture direction and infrastructure standards
    • Prioritize the portfolio: what to build, buy, fix, or retire
  2. 02
    Governance
    • Vendor selection, contracts, and ongoing vendor governance
    • Budget ownership and ROI alignment on every major spend
    • Risk, continuity, and the policies that keep them honest
  3. 03
    Delivery
    • Lead and mentor internal staff or a build-out team
    • Run migrations, integrations, and platform transitions
    • Turn "someday" projects into scheduled, resourced work
  4. 04
    Accountability
    • Board-level reporting a non-technical audience can trust
    • KPIs and reviews that tie technology to business outcomes
    • One name accountable for the whole, not a committee

Proof

What this looks like in practice.

400Users in 60 days
12Offices unified
$500K+Vendor savings

Post-acquisition integration across 12 offices

Owning the roadmap and the execution, we unified 400 users across 12 offices in 60 days, migrated the datacenter to AWS, stood up a 10-person team, and eliminated more than $500K in annual vendor spend.

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