Technology
Budgeting & Vendor Management
Most technology spending is reactive — a surprise here, a renewal there, three tools that do the same thing. I bring order to it: a planned budget, a clear roadmap, and vendors who are actually held accountable.
The leak this seals
Reactive, surprise IT spend and overlapping vendor contracts quietly drain your budget every month. You’re paying for tools, licenses, and providers that no one is actively managing — and the bill only goes up.
How it works
Map the spend
We inventory every tool, subscription, license, and vendor contract — and what each one actually costs you each year.
Build an 18-month roadmap
A technology plan tied to where the business is going, so spending is planned and prioritized instead of reactive firefighting.
Forecast predictably
Turn surprise “the server died” invoices into a clear, budgeted line you can plan around — no more year-end shocks.
Hold vendors accountable
Own the contracts, renewals, and SLAs. Review performance, push back on price creep, and escalate when providers underdeliver.
Cut the waste
Eliminate overlapping and unused subscriptions and right-size what’s left, so every dollar of software spend earns its place.
What you walk away with
- A predictable technology budget instead of surprise invoices
- An 18-month roadmap that ties spend to business goals
- Vendors and MSPs held to their contracts and SLAs
- Lower software spend from cutting overlap and waste
- One accountable owner for tech costs and vendor relationships
Why a fractional CTO owns this
At a $40 billion hedge fund, I owned a $3.1M IT budget across roughly twenty vendors — holding managed-service providers and software vendors to their SLAs through reviews, renewals, and performance escalations. The same discipline applies to a growing business: someone has to own the numbers and the relationships, or both quietly drift in the vendor’s favor.
I’m vendor-agnostic — I don’t resell software and I don’t take commissions. My only job is to make sure your technology spend is planned, justified, and working as hard as you do.
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