Every engagement is led by a practitioner who has built, bought, run, or retired the technology in question. No vendor kickbacks, no offshore handoffs, no slide-deck theater. The same person who briefs your board will be the person on the implementation calls.
We help leadership teams answer the technology questions that don't have an obvious owner. Where to invest next, what to retire, which vendor to trust, how to translate any of it into language the board can act on.
Six- to twelve-week strategy or roadmap engagements with a defined deliverable, named outcomes, and a fixed price.
Fractional retainerOngoing CIO or CTO presence on a multi-month commitment. Detailed below.
Tech due diligenceTwo- to four-week reviews scoped to the deal. Capital-grade output, plain-English summary.
For organizations that need real CIO or CTO judgment in the room, but don't have the scale, the budget, or the candidate pool to hire one full-time. Sized for $5M–$200M revenue companies and the associations and PE-backed mid-market businesses that look like them.
The core systems your business actually runs on, built, replaced, or extended without breaking what works. The buyer-side perspective from someone who has implemented these systems, not just specified them.
Eight- to twelve-week engagements covering requirements, vendor evaluation, demo orchestration, and a defensible recommendation with TCO.
Implementation oversightBuyer-side governance for SI-led implementations. We hold your vendor accountable to scope, timeline, and quality.
Modernization roadmapFor organizations not yet ready to commit to a replacement, sequenced plans that buy time and reduce risk.
The data foundation everything else depends on, sized to your scale, not to the vendor's pricing model. We strip the stack down to what your business actually uses, and rebuild trust in the numbers leadership relies on.
Three- to four-week diagnostic against the ARYS data maturity framework, with a sequenced roadmap and price-anchored recommendations.
Platform buildEnd-to-end design and delivery of warehouse, pipelines, and analytics layer. We bring in delivery partners only where it makes you money.
Embedded data leadershipAvailable as part of a fractional CIO/CTO retainer for organizations without a dedicated head of data.
Where AI is genuinely useful, where it isn't, and what data foundations have to be in place before either question is worth asking. We separate the substance from the hype, and we have working AI systems in production to prove the difference.
Four-week diagnostic naming the three to five highest-value AI use cases for your organization, the data foundation each requires, and the order to build them in.
Deployment partnershipPilot to production for the use cases that pass the readiness filter. Built on platforms you can maintain after we leave.
AI governancePolicies, risk frameworks, and board-ready language for organizations whose stakeholders are asking harder questions than the leadership team can yet answer.
Multi-vendor, multi-year programs run with the discipline of someone who has actually delivered them. When a transformation is bigger than your team has done before, or stalling and needs to be rescued, we step into the seat, not the slide deck.
Embedded leadership of a single named program, typically a multi-vendor implementation, a $5M+ initiative, or a transformation that has already started.
Program rescueTwo- to four-week intervention on a stalling program: diagnose the root cause, restore governance, and re-baseline with the team that's already in place.
Portfolio oversightFor organizations with multiple programs in flight, a portfolio-level governance layer that surfaces risk before it becomes a board conversation.
The Stack Assessment is the front door to all five practices. A 21-day, fixed-price diagnostic that tells you where the money is going, what's actually broken, and which of the five practices, or which combination of them, should come next.
See the assessment in detail →Defined scope, fixed timeline, named deliverables. Strategy work, assessments, system selections, and bounded implementations.
Ongoing CIO or CTO leadership at a sub-full-time commitment. Standing cadence, advisory hours, board visibility.
Capital-grade reviews scoped to the deal. Technology, data, and team assessment for M&A and PE investment.
Standalone enablement: board briefings, leadership team workshops, and staff training on data and AI capability.
Every practice on this page exists because real clients had a real problem that needed a practitioner's judgment. Tell us yours. The first conversation is free, candid, and short.