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Board-level IT thinking.
Without the board-level salary.

Someone in your business should own where technology is going — not just what broke this week. Our vCIO service gives you that person: strategy, budgeting and straight answers, on tap.

What's included

Everything under one agreement

Quarterly roadmaps

A living plan for your technology: what's being improved, what's being retired and what's coming next — agreed together.

Budget planning

Hardware refreshes, licence renewals and projects forecast years ahead, so IT spend is planned, never a surprise.

Vendor management

We deal with your internet providers, software vendors and telecoms firms — the hold music becomes our problem.

Risk & compliance guidance

Practical help with Cyber Essentials, insurance questionnaires, client due diligence and GDPR obligations.

Project leadership

Office moves, system rollouts and migrations scoped, planned and delivered — with one throat to choke: ours.

Honest procurement advice

Recommendations based on what your business needs, not what pays commission. If you don't need it, we say so.

In practice

How it works day to day

Understand the business

We start with where your business is going — growth plans, pain points, budget realities — not with a product catalogue.

First month

Agree the roadmap

Together we set priorities for the year: quick wins first, bigger moves sequenced sensibly and costed clearly.

Quarterly

Review and adjust

Each quarter we sit down, review progress against plan and adapt as your business (and technology) changes.

Ongoing
Who this is for

Is this you?

For leadership teams who sense technology decisions are being made by default — because nobody owns them.

IT decisions happen by accident

Purchases are reactive, driven by whatever broke. There's no plan, just a trail of invoices.

You can't sanity-check suppliers

Vendors propose things and you have no one technical in your corner to say whether it's right — or fairly priced.

Growth is outpacing the setup

The systems that suited ten people are creaking at thirty, and nobody's planning for sixty.

Ready when you are

Let's give your technology a direction

A 20-minute call, a free environment audit, and a clear picture of what better looks like. No pressure, no jargon.

Book your call — hello@starma.it