IT Consulting for Los Angeles Businesses.
Most companies our size don't need a full-time CIO. They need one for four hours a month who knows the business, owns the roadmap and the budget, tells the truth about what to buy and what to skip, and is accountable when the project is late. That is what our consulting is: a fractional CIO backed by the team that runs Los Angeles IT every day.
How we can help.
Three kinds of engagements cover most of what Los Angeles companies come to us for: an ongoing CIO seat, a defined project, and a fixed-price assessment before a big decision.
Fractional CIO
A named senior person who owns your technology strategy, budget and vendor relationships, sits in your leadership meetings, and is accountable for the roadmap. Monthly, at a fraction of a full-time hire, with our engineers behind them.
Projects and transitions
Cloud migrations, office moves and build-outs, mergers and acquisitions, new phone systems, ERP and practice-management rollouts. Scoped, priced and run by us, so the day-to-day IT does not stop while the big thing happens.
Assessments and second opinions
A fixed-price look at where you stand: security posture, compliance readiness, cost versus value of your current stack, or a vendor quote you are not sure about. You get a written report you can act on with us or without us.
What our IT consulting includes.
Advice is cheap. What you are paying for is a plan you can fund, vendors who are held to it, and someone who answers when it goes wrong.
Strategy and roadmap
Where the business is going in three years and what the technology has to do to get it there, turned into a 12- to 36-month roadmap with the big rocks sequenced and priced.
Key features
- Annual strategy review with leadership
- Roadmap tied to business goals, not vendor calendars
- Refreshed each quarter as the business changes
- Written so the board can read it
Budget and cost control
A realistic technology budget, licence-by-licence and contract-by-contract, with the renewals calendar managed so you are never surprised and never paying for what nobody uses.
Key features
- Full IT budget, capital and operating
- Licence and subscription audit
- Renewal calendar, negotiated in advance
- Cost versus value review of every major tool
Vendor and project management
We manage the carriers, software vendors, printer companies and contractors so you don't have to, and we run the projects that touch all of them.
Key features
- Single point of contact for every technology vendor
- RFPs and quote reviews for major purchases
- Project management for migrations, moves and rollouts
- Escalation when a vendor drops the ball
Compliance and risk
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI, cyber-insurance questionnaires and client security reviews, planned into the roadmap rather than scrambled for the week before the audit.
Key features
- Gap assessment against the framework you need
- Policies and evidence built into how the IT already runs
- Cyber-insurance application support
- Audit and questionnaire support when it counts
Why an IT consultant who also runs the IT?
Consultants who only advise can recommend anything; they are not there when it has to work. Since 1997 we have run IT for Los Angeles medical practices, catering companies, fulfillment warehouses, nonprofits and professional firms, so the strategy we write is one we have to live with. That keeps the advice practical: fewer platforms, fewer surprises, and a budget that survives contact with reality. And because we build software and run security and compliance programs too, the roadmap does not stop at "buy a tool" when what the business needs is an app, a control or a process.
- A named fractional CIO, backed by a full engineering team
- Advice we are accountable for, because we run what we recommend
- Roadmap and budget in writing, reviewed with you every quarter
- Vendor management and renewals handled for you
- Fixed-price assessments and projects, no open-ended hourly bills
- Security, compliance and custom software in the same conversation
How an engagement works.
Four steps from a first conversation to a roadmap you are funding and a CIO who owns it.
Discovery
We meet leadership, look at the environment, the contracts and the spend, and hear what frustrates you and where the business is headed.
Assessment
A written picture of where you stand, what is working, what is costing more than it returns, and the risks worth fixing first.
Roadmap and budget
The next 12 to 36 months, sequenced and priced, with quick wins up front and the big projects planned around the business calendar.
Run it
Your fractional CIO owns the plan: quarterly reviews, vendor management, project delivery, and a straight answer whenever you need one.
IT consulting FAQs
What Los Angeles business owners ask before bringing in an outside CIO.
Want a second opinion on your technology plan?
Book a 30-minute call. Bring your current IT spend, your biggest frustration and whatever you've been quoted. We'll tell you what we'd do differently and why, and you keep the advice either way.