Technology That Drives Your Business Forward
A fractional CIO who knows your business, builds your technology roadmap, and aligns every IT investment with the outcomes that actually matter — without the full-time executive salary.
Sound Familiar?
Most growing businesses have a reactive relationship with technology. Something breaks, you fix it. Someone asks for a new tool, you buy it. The year-end budget conversation is "how much did IT cost us this year?" instead of "what did IT enable us to accomplish this year?"
Without strategic technology leadership, businesses make expensive reactive decisions, duplicate tools, accumulate technical debt, and lose competitive advantage to peers who are using technology more deliberately. The costs are real — they're just spread out and hard to see until they're painfully obvious.
A full-time CIO costs $200,000 or more per year in total compensation. Most businesses at the $5M–$100M revenue range don't need — or can't justify — a full-time executive in this role. But they absolutely need the thinking, the strategy, and the accountability that a CIO provides.
Facet MSP's vCIO service gives you senior technology leadership applied deliberately — quarterly strategic reviews, a living technology roadmap, budget planning, and an advisor who knows your business deeply enough to give you advice you can actually act on.
What's Included
Senior IT leadership, applied strategically
Quarterly Business Reviews
Structured QBRs where we review your technology environment, measure against your business goals, assess what's working, and identify gaps. No more 'set it and forget it' — technology strategy is a continuous conversation tied to where your business is actually going.
Technology Roadmap
A written 12–24 month roadmap of planned projects, investments, and improvements — prioritized by business impact and sequenced realistically. You'll always know what's coming, why it's on the list, and what it will cost. No surprise capital expenditures. No reactive scrambling.
IT Budget Planning
We help you build an annual IT budget that reflects actual business needs — not panic purchases, not vendor upsells, not last year's number plus ten percent. CapEx versus OpEx trade-offs, hardware lifecycle planning, software rationalization, and a total cost of ownership that's defensible to your board or investors.
Vendor Management & Negotiation
Evaluating a new software platform? Renewing a contract you haven't looked at in three years? Considering switching ISPs? We assess, negotiate, and advise. Our objectivity is your advantage — we don't take commissions or resell products, so every recommendation is based purely on what's right for you.
Technology Project Oversight
Digital transformation initiatives, office moves, new location buildouts, system migrations, ERP implementations — we provide IT leadership through the complexity of major projects. Scope definition, vendor selection, timeline management, and stakeholder communication — so projects finish on time without disrupting the business.
Risk & Compliance Advisory
We assess your technology risk posture — security gaps, data exposure, regulatory requirements, vendor dependencies — and help you make informed, prioritized decisions about where to invest. Not every risk requires the same response. We help you distinguish the critical from the theoretical.
Board & Executive Communication
Need to explain a technology investment to your board, present an IT budget to investors, or communicate a security incident to leadership? We translate technical decisions into business outcomes and financial terms. You'll never walk into a board meeting unsure of how to answer an IT question.
M&A Technology Due Diligence
Acquiring a company? Merging with a partner? Selling? Technology due diligence, integration planning, and post-merger IT consolidation are complex — and the stakes are high. We provide senior IT leadership through the process, surfacing risks early and building an integration roadmap that actually works.
What You'll Notice
From cost center to competitive edge
- Technology decisions that are deliberate instead of reactive
- An IT budget that's defensible to leadership, investors, or a board
- A 12-month roadmap so nothing expensive comes as a surprise
- Vendor contracts that reflect actual value — not renewal inertia
- IT positioned as a competitive advantage, not an overhead line
The value equation
$200K+
Full-time CIO total comp — what you're not paying
Quarterly
Strategic reviews aligned to your business calendar
12–24 mo
Forward-looking technology roadmap, always current
Why Facet MSP
Strategic thinking backed by operational reality
We've operated at scale.
Our vCIO team has led IT strategy for businesses from $5M to $500M in revenue. We know how to think about technology at your stage and the next one.
We're vendor-neutral.
We don't resell hardware or take commissions. Every recommendation is based on what's right for your business — full stop.
The relationship compounds.
A vCIO who knows your business, your team, and your goals delivers exponentially more value over time. The longer we work together, the better the advice.
Free Assessment
Ready to take IT off your plate?
Book a free 45-minute IT assessment. No commitment, no sales pressure — just an honest look at where you stand and how we can help.
No commitment · 45 min · Free · US-based team