Someone Should Own Your Technology Strategy. Meet Your vCIO.
Most growing companies make six-figure technology decisions — new office, new ERP, cloud migration, security budget — with no one at the table whose job is technology. IT consulting with a virtual CIO fixes that: an owner for your roadmap, a defensible budget, vendor decisions made on evidence, and a quarterly review where IT answers to business goals instead of the other way around.
- A named vCIO who owns your roadmap — not a rotating cast of account reps
- Three-year technology budgets your CFO can actually plan against
- Vendor-neutral recommendations: we sell outcomes, not licenses
- Quarterly business reviews with metrics, not vibes
- Project leadership for migrations, moves, and rollouts
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Bring your current IT spend and pain list. We will return a gap analysis and draft roadmap within one week.
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The Executive Function of IT, Fractional
A full-time CIO costs $250K+ and is overkill below a few hundred employees — but the decisions a CIO owns do not wait for that headcount. Which systems get replaced next year? Is the security budget defensible to the board and the insurer? Build the new office network for today’s 40 people or the 120 in the plan? Someone has to own those answers with context, or they get made by whoever shouts loudest in the meeting.
Your vCIO owns them. They learn the business first — margins, growth plans, compliance exposure, what actually makes you money — then run technology against it: a living roadmap, an annual budget with no surprise line items, vendor evaluations with scorecards, and a quarterly review where you see uptime, spend, risk, and progress in one page. It is the discipline of enterprise IT governance, sized and priced for the mid-market.
A representative finding from a recent engagement: a mid-sized firm’s scanner report buried a critical item at position 212 — an internet-reachable legacy VPN appliance with a known exploited vulnerability. CVSS scoring alone ranked hundreds of internal items above it. Exploitability-based ranking put it first, and it was patched the same week. That is the difference prioritization makes.
- Named vCIO with quarterly on-site business reviews
- Budgets built for CFO scrutiny — capex, opex, and the why
- Vendor and contract negotiation on your side of the table
- Roadmaps tied to business events: growth, moves, M&A, compliance
Strategy Work We Own End to End
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IT for Every Southern California Industry
Law, healthcare, finance, media, manufacturing, nonprofits — 20+ years running IT for the businesses that run LA, OC, and SF.
What Clients Say About Our Support
LA companies on the switch — cost, coverage, and control.
“When our IT guy left, we outsourced instead of rehiring. Coverage tripled, spend dropped 30%, and nobody has looked back.”
“The transition month was the tell: everything documented, nothing lost, tickets closing same-day by week two.”
“We grew from one warehouse to three. IT scaled with a phone call — no hiring, no drama, same flat structure.”
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Bring Us Your Spend. We’ll Bring the Plan.
Free roadmap review: send your current IT spend and your top five frustrations, and get back a gap analysis and draft plan within one week. If the answer is “keep what you have,” we will say so.