A fractional CIO, a living technology roadmap, and a budget you can see coming. Not a vendor who shows up when something breaks, but a partner at the table when you're deciding where the business goes next.
Strategy
A fractional CIO, a living technology roadmap, and a budget you can see coming. Not a vendor who shows up when something breaks, but a partner at the table when you're deciding where the business goes next.
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No. 140
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The problem
For most growing companies IT decisions happen in the moment, so the budget becomes a series of surprises and the tech stack grows by accident. Strategy turns IT from a cost you absorb into a plan you can steer, with someone at the table connecting every decision to where the business is going.
Our approach
You get a fractional CIO who owns where IT goes next, builds a roadmap tied to your three-year plan with a budget that maps to it, and reviews it with your leadership team every quarter. The plan stays alive instead of sitting in a drawer.
24/7 monitoring across identity, endpoint, and email.
When something looks wrong, a real engineer investigates. Not an auto-generated ticket that waits in a queue until Monday.
What's included
Everything below is included in the fixed monthly fee that covers Support, Security, Strength, and Strategy.
A dedicated fractional CIO
A strategic partner with CIO-level responsibility for connecting your technology to your business goals.
A living technology roadmap
A 12 to 36 month IT roadmap, kept current as your business evolves.
Quarterly business reviews
Quarterly strategy meetings with your Fractional CIO, your leadership, and the relevant Velo specialists.
Budget planning and forecasting
Annual IT budget forecasting across capital, operating, project, and security spend.
Lifecycle and capacity planning
Hardware and software lifecycle planning so renewals and replacements stop being surprises.
The velo methoD®
Support is one of four. Each pillar runs every month, included in the same fixed fee. See the full Velo Method®
You talk to a real engineer who already knows your setup, not a queue and a ticket number. No hourly fees. No script reading.
Multi-layered protection that fits your business. Not the fear-driven tool sprawl most providers sell. Not the bare minimum that leaves you expo
Resilient infrastructure with quarterly drills. When something breaks, your business does not.
Frequently asked questions
A fractional CIO is a senior technology leader who works as part of your team without the full-time executive cost. They own your technology roadmap, build and defend your IT budget, sit in your quarterly leadership reviews, and make sure every technology decision connects to where the business is going.
Most "planning" is a vendor recommending what to buy next. Strategy starts from your three-year business plan and works backward. The roadmap is tied to your goals, the budget is yours to see quarters ahead, and the review happens on a fixed schedule with your leadership, not whenever a renewal forces the conversation.
Your fractional CIO and the relevant members of your leadership team. We keep it focused on decisions, not status updates. You leave each review knowing what changed, what's coming, and what, if anything, needs your sign-off.
We work alongside internal IT under a co-managed model. Your team keeps running the systems. Our fractional CIO partners with them on the roadmap and the budget, giving them executive backing and the time to focus on execution.
Yes. Strategy is one of the four pillars covered by the fixed monthly fee, alongside Support, Security, and Strength. Large initiatives that come out of the roadmap, like a major migration or a new system build, are scoped and delivered through Professional Services.
Your fractional CIO spends the first weeks learning your business and your environment. A first-draft roadmap and budget outline usually take shape within the first quarter, and the first formal business review locks it in with your leadership team.
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