Virtual CIO (vCIO)
Someone whose job is to think about your technology beyond this week.
What a vCIO actually does
Technology roadmap
What needs replacing, what needs upgrading, and in what order. Written down, with dates, so nothing is a surprise twelve months out.
Budget and forecasting
A number attached to each item on that roadmap, timed so it lands in the budget cycle instead of arriving as an emergency purchase.
Vendor management
Contract renewals, licence counts, and the conversations with suppliers you would rather not have. Reviewed before renewal, not after.
Risk and compliance review
Where the business is exposed and which obligations apply, Law 25 included, so a compliance gap surfaces as a planned project rather than a discovery.
Most small businesses have nobody doing this
Technology decisions in a small business tend to get made by whoever is nearest the problem, at the moment the problem appears. That works until it doesn't: the server everyone forgot about fails, a licence renews at a number nobody budgeted for, and the software the whole company depends on turns out to have been unsupported for two years.
None of that is a competence failure. It is what happens when nobody's job description includes looking further out than this week. Larger organisations solve it with an IT director. For a business of ten or forty people, that salary is impossible to justify.
A vCIO is the same function bought by the quarter instead of by the year. You get the planning, the budget discipline and the outside perspective, at the cadence a business your size actually needs it.
What you actually get
A scheduled review, quarterly on the Professional plan and monthly on Complete, where we go through what changed, what is coming, and what it costs. It produces a written document, not a conversation you have to remember.
It is also available on its own, if you already have IT covered and only want the strategic layer. See the co-managed modules on the services page for how that is priced.
Not sure which tier fits?
A quick conversation will sort it out. We'll look at your team size, your tools, and what's actually breaking.