Uncontrolled tech spend & SaaS waste
Software subscriptions expand unchecked across departments, hardware invoices carry hidden reseller markups, and monthly IT costs remain completely unpredictable.
The independent advantage
Unbiased technology strategy. Absolute client advocacy.
Eliminating the structural conflicts of interest in corporate IT to deliver objective guidance, total budget predictability, and high-stakes execution governance.
- 100% vendor-neutral
- Fixed-rate retainers
- Client-side advocacy
About mccloudCo
Senior IT leadership without the full-time hire
mccloudCo is an independent IT strategy and technology consulting firm for growing and mid-market organizations of 10 to 250+ employees. We accept no vendor referral fees and sell no hardware or software, so every recommendation reflects your needs, not a vendor’s sales target. Fixed-rate monthly retainers keep costs predictable, and a principal consultant leads every engagement from start to finish. Services span SaaS cost control, cloud migration, vCIO leadership, and compliance readiness.
mccloudCo capabilities
Everything between the IT audit and the boardroom
mccloudCo covers the full path from IT cost control to executive technology leadership: SaaS optimization, vendor-neutral cloud migration, fractional vCIO leadership, and compliance readiness. One independent, principal-led advisor handles it instead of three vendors.
- Foundation & efficiency: IT cost optimization & SaaS automation for growing businesses mccloudCo establishes a secure tech baseline for teams without dedicated IT leadership—auditing software contracts, eliminating redundant SaaS licenses, closing security gaps, and automating manual workflows without adding headcount.
- Transformation & scale: cloud migration & ERP/CRM selection for mid-market firms mccloudCo guides mid-market businesses outgrowing legacy servers through vendor-neutral cloud migration and ERP/CRM selection, acting as client-side advisors to keep contractors on scope, budget, and timeline.
- Leadership & Assurance: Virtual CIO leadership & enterprise compliance readiness mccloudCo delivers principal-led Virtual CIO leadership—providing multi-year IT roadmaps, vendor governance, compliance readiness (SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, ISO 27001), disaster recovery playbooks, and secure AI governance.
Customer stories
What teams shipped after the guesswork left the pipeline
Every story below is a production deployment with numbers the customer signed off on. No pilots, no anonymised logos.
63% faster close
Four hand-run reconciliation jobs became one governed pipeline, and the books closed in three days instead of eight.
1,400 models migrated
A decade of untracked SQL moved onto column-level lineage without pausing a single downstream dashboard.
6 hrs back each week
Freshness checks run themselves, so nobody triages “is this dashboard stale?” tickets any more.
Resource library
Field notes from teams running data in production
Playbooks, benchmarks and post-mortems from data teams who ship pipelines every day. The numbers are in the summaries, not behind a form.
Guide
The data reliability playbook for teams under twenty engineers
Sixteen freshness and volume checks, five alert thresholds, and the escalation path that keeps on-call rotations from burning out.
Report
2026 State of Pipeline Observability
412 data teams on incident volume, mean time to detection, and what they actually spend per monitored table.
Webinar
Migrating 900 dbt models without a freeze window
How Corvia Health cut over from a legacy scheduler in eleven days, including the rollback plan they never had to use.