Strategic Advisory (vCIO & vCISO)
The CTO you can't afford to hire. On retainer.
What this feels like — in your words.
For UA Locals and JATCs
Your business manager and trustees make six-figure technology decisions every year without a technology person in the room. The vendor pitches sound great until you sign and realize you bought something you didn't need. Your IT budget is a guess based on last year's IT budget. When something big comes up — a building renovation, a software refresh, a new training program — you're making technology decisions on instinct.
For healthcare clinics
You don't have a CIO. You have an office manager and an EHR vendor. Every vendor that walks in says you need their thing. You can't tell which ones are right. You're being asked to make decisions about AI tools, cloud migration, and HIPAA roadmaps with no map and no compass.
For construction contractors
Technology is no longer support. It's the operational backbone. You need someone in the room when you're deciding on project management platforms, BIM coordination tools, jobsite connectivity, AI-based scheduling, and integration strategy. Your operations team doesn't speak technology. Your IT person doesn't speak operations. Decisions fall through the gap.
We sit in the room when you make technology decisions. Every important business decision is now a technology decision — and you shouldn't be making them alone. Our vCIO acts as the technology executive you can't justify hiring full-time. Our vCISO does the same on the security and compliance side.
We come to your meetings. We read your contracts. We push back on your vendors. We tell you when something isn't worth buying.
The actual deliverables.
- +A 12-month rolling technology roadmap, updated quarterly
- +IT budget planning and forecasting
- +Quarterly business reviews — what we did, what's next, what to watch
- +Annual strategic planning
- +Vendor management and contract review
- +Cyber insurance navigation
- +Compliance program management for organizations under HIPAA, NIST, FDA, or cyber insurance requirements
- +Risk register development and ongoing oversight
- +Board, trust-fund, and audit-ready reporting in language non-technical leaders can read
The business manager making decisions without a technical voice in the room. The clinic owner being pitched by every vendor in town. The contractor scaling past the point where "good enough" tech still works. Anyone who's tired of guessing at the right answer.
Five more ways we show up.
Managed IT & Helpdesk
Stop yelling at your computer. Call us.
Security & Compliance
Sleep through the night. We're up anyway.
Infrastructure & Cloud
The plumbing nobody sees — until it leaks.
AI & Vendor Advisory
Everyone's selling AI. We tell you which ones are worth buying.
VDC / BIM Management
We build your VDC from zero. Then we keep it running.
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Kilik · talk@kilik.net · 415-523-1400