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Fractional CIO

IT and systems leadership for companies whose operations are outgrowing their tools — coherent, scalable, and cost-effective.

When your systems don't scale, your team can't either

Every team bought its own SaaS — nothing talks to anything and data lives in twelve places.

Onboarding and offboarding is manual and error-prone; access is a mess and a risk.

Reporting takes days because the data is scattered and untrusted.

SaaS spend is climbing and no one owns the total number.

Growth is breaking processes that were fine at 20 people and aren't at 80.

What you get

Not hours on a timesheet — decisions made, systems shipped, and a program that works.

Systems you can trust

A coherent architecture — core system of record plus integrations — instead of SaaS sprawl.

Data that reports fast

Governed data that makes reporting fast and trustworthy. Leadership trusts the numbers.

Access under control

Automated, secure identity and access lifecycle (joiner/mover/leaver) with least-privilege baseline.

Spend you own

A managed vendor portfolio with a known, optimized total cost and a defensible IT budget.

Three shapes, one operator

Start where the pain is acute. Scale as trust is established.

CIO Advisory

~2 days/mo equivalent, async

$5,000 – $8,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Systems architecture guidance and vendor evaluations
  • Data strategy and spend reviews
  • Project oversight and technology decisions
  • 1 live ops/leadership review per month (max)
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CIO Embedded

~1 day/week

$8,000 – $12,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Advisory
  • Ownership of 1–2 named initiatives
  • CRM/ERP rollout or integration layer
  • Identity/SSO program standup
  • Data warehouse design and delivery

Fractional CIO

~2 days/week

$12,000 – $15,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Embedded
  • Owns the IT and systems function
  • Architecture, vendors, IT ops, data governance
  • Budget ownership and board reporting
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Systems & Spend Assessment

$3,500 fixed fee

A 2-week inventory of your systems, data flows, access, and SaaS spend. You leave with a prioritized action plan — whether we work together or not. Vendor-consolidation engagements can be structured with a savings-share component. Credits toward the first month of a retainer.

Your first 90 days

A predictable ramp with clear deliverables at each phase.

1

Weeks 1–2 — Assess

Inventory systems, data flows, access, and spend. Deliver Systems & Spend Assessment.

2

Weeks 3–4 — Quick wins

Kill redundant tools, renegotiate the biggest renewal, and fix the worst access gap.

3

Weeks 5–8 — Architecture

Publish target systems map and data strategy. Start the highest-value integration.

4

Weeks 9–12 — Operating model

Vendor portfolio managed, IT processes in place, budget adopted. Decide: continue Embedded or step up to Fractional-in-a-box.

Not the right fit?

We are selective about engagements. This may not be right if:

Very small teams where a good ops manager and a few tools suffice.

Wants a full-time IT helpdesk — that's staffing, not strategy.

Needs someone available on-demand all day — our model is async by design.

Ready to move?

The discovery call is free. We scope the engagement together, and you leave with a clear picture whether or not we work together.

Fractional CTO, CIO, CISO and AI Agent Engineering. Executive-level technology leadership for companies that need a senior technical partner without a full-time hire.

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