Pricing
Fixed fees, never a meter. The assessment is published; retainers are quoted.
Technology Leadership Assessment
Three weeks, fixed fee. Scorecard, risk register, spend analysis and a 12-month roadmap, delivered into a workspace you keep whether or not you continue. A portion of the fee is credited against your first quarter if you go on to a Growth or Executive retainer.
Retainers
Three levels of engagement, separated by cadence and by how much of the technology agenda we own. Each is a fixed monthly fee, quoted after the intro call and held for the term. Month to month after an initial 90 days, and you can move between levels as your needs change. For context: a full-time CIO runs $250,000+ fully loaded.
Advisory
For companies that need an experienced hand on the big decisions and, just as importantly, a standing record of what was decided, who owns it, and when it is due back.
- Monthly strategy session with your leadership team, prepared from what has actually changed since the last one
- A live risk register: every open risk with a named owner and a review date, not a spreadsheet nobody reopens
- Contract register with notice windows tracked, so a renewal never rolls over by default
- Every decision logged and carried to done or explicitly dropped
- One shared list of what we have asked you for, so nothing lives in somebody's inbox
- Ownership of the 12-month roadmap, and annual budget planning support
- Email and phone access between sessions, on a flat fee with no meter
Growth
Most commonFor companies with active initiatives, such as a migration, an implementation or a security program, that need someone driving vendors and projects to outcomes and checking the exposures nobody else is checking.
- Everything in Advisory, on a bi-weekly cadence
- Vendor management: selection, negotiation, and quarterly business reviews we run on your behalf
- Your cyber cover read against your own risk register: limits, sublimits, retentions, and the warranties you signed
- Spend, licences and contracts reconciled against each other, so you stop paying for what nobody uses
- Oversight of active projects and implementations, with the decisions tracked
- A quarterly business review document written for your leadership team, not your server room
Executive
For companies that need a named technology executive at the table, running the agenda, developing the team, and answering to the board with numbers that hold up.
- Everything in Growth, on a weekly cadence
- Standing seat on the leadership team
- Board preparation and attendance, with reporting drawn from the live register rather than assembled the night before
- IT team mentoring and organizational design
- M&A technology diligence and integration leadership
- Incident leadership when things go wrong
Advisory hours
For work that has a start and a finish rather than a cadence: an M&A diligence sprint, a vendor selection, an incident, a second opinion on a decision already on the table. Scoped and quoted up front so you approve a number, not a meter. Available whether or not you ever take a retainer.
Why the assessment has a price and the retainers do not
The assessment is the same three weeks of work for everybody, so a published figure is an answer rather than a guess. Publishing it is the point, because you should be able to decide whether it is worth it without sitting through a sales process.
A retainer is not the same work for everybody. What it is worth depends on the size of the estate, the state it is in, and how much of the agenda we are being asked to own. A number on this page would only invite you to pick a level before either of us knows which one you need. So we agree the scope on the intro call, quote a fixed monthly fee, and hold it for the term.
What will never happen is an hourly meter on a retainer. A meter rewards slow work, punishes quick answers, and teaches you not to call, which is fatal in a relationship whose whole value is that you call early. If a question takes five minutes, it takes five minutes, and there is no increment to record.