Fractional IT Director
Senior IT leadership, without the full-time salary.
I give growing companies the strategic oversight of a $150K/year IT Director — vendor management, security strategy, budget planning, and disaster recovery — for a fraction of the cost, with zero hiring risk.
Sound Familiar?
The questions keeping business owners up at night
“We don’t know if our MSP is overcharging us — or leaving us exposed.”
“We’re one ransomware attack away from a very bad year.”
“Nobody owns our vendor contracts. They just auto-renew.”
“We have no real IT budget plan — just reactive spending.”
What You Get
A senior IT leader, on retainer
- Monthly strategic leadership call
- Vendor oversight & contract negotiation
- Security posture review & prioritization
- Annual & multi-year IT budget planning
- Disaster recovery & incident response planning
- Cyber-insurance readiness guidance
- Quarterly written business review
- Direct escalation point for IT decisions
Engagement Options
Pricing that scales with your company size
- 1 leadership call / month
- Vendor contract review (reactive)
- High-level security check-in
- Annual budget planning
- 48-hour response SLA
- Everything in Advisory, plus:
- 2 calls / month
- Proactive vendor negotiation
- Independent security audit
- Disaster recovery plan
- Quarterly written business review
- 24-hour response SLA
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Weekly touch
- Full incident response runbook
- Cyber-insurance readiness package
- Compliance guidance (HIPAA / SOC2 / PCI-adjacent)
- Board- or investor-ready reporting
- Same-day response SLA
Compare to a full-time IT Director: $130K–180K/year fully loaded. Even the top tier here is a fraction of that cost.
Within Each Package
How pricing within a tier is set
Your employee count determines which package fits. Where you land within that package’s price range comes down to a few concrete factors – not guesswork.
| Factor | Lower end | Higher end |
|---|---|---|
| Environment complexity | Single cloud stack (M365 / Google Workspace) | Hybrid — on-prem servers + cloud + legacy systems |
| Vendor / contract count | 3–5 vendors under management | 8+ vendors under management |
| Locations | Single site | Multiple sites / distributed remote workforce |
| Regulatory exposure | None | Light (insurance requirements, client security questionnaires)* |
| Headcount within the band | Bottom of the tier's employee range | Top of the tier's employee range |
* Heavier regulatory exposure (HIPAA, SOC2, PCI-adjacent requirements) usually means the Strategic package, not just the top of a lower tier.
A note on messy starting environments: undocumented or poorly maintained environments often take extra work in the first 60–90 days. That's typically priced as a one-time onboarding fee on top of the retainer — not a permanent position at the top of the range.
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