Fit
You probably need this if
- Technology decisions keep landing on someone whose actual job is something else
- You are being quoted for systems and have no independent way to judge the quotes
- Nobody owns the IT estate end to end, so nothing gets sequenced — it just gets bought
- The board asks what IT costs and the honest answer takes a week to assemble
- You have outgrown ad-hoc support but cannot justify a full-time CTO salary
Scope
What the retainer covers
Technology strategy and roadmap
A written view of what to do, in what order, and what each step costs — reviewed and re-sequenced as the business changes, not filed and forgotten.
Vendor governance
We sit on your side of the table for selection, negotiation and delivery. We take no licence margin from any vendor, so the recommendation is the whole business case.
Architecture and delivery oversight
Decisions get made and recorded. Delivery gets held to the plan, with the trade-offs stated plainly when the plan has to move.
Board-level reporting
Technology on the agenda in language the board can act on — risk, spend, progress, and what happens if nothing changes.
Escalation and continuity
A named person who already knows your estate when something breaks, rather than a ticket queue that starts from zero.
Process
How it runs
Every engagement starts the same way, whichever service you need.
IT audit
We look at what you are running, what it costs and where the risk sits. No obligation, no sales deck — you keep the findings either way.
Findings & proposal
A written view of priorities, sequencing and cost, with the trade-offs stated plainly. You will know what we would do first and why.
Execution & oversight
We stay accountable for delivery — vendor governance, architecture decisions and the board-level reporting that keeps technology on the agenda.
Independence
We are nobody’s reseller
We take no licence margin on SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Sage or any CRM. There is no partner relationship to protect and no rebate behind the recommendation, so when we tell you which option to take, the recommendation is the whole business case. We have also made the expensive mistakes already — vendor lock-in, an integration that looked fine in the demo, a migration that ran long — on our own balance sheet rather than yours.
Related
Other ways we help
Start with the free audit
Before any engagement we look at what you are running, what it costs and where the risk sits. You keep the findings whether or not you work with us.