Strategic Advisory Practice

Senior IT leadership for growing businesses, without the full-time hire

Productized advisory for organizations of 10 to 250+ employees — a predictable monthly retainer, a defined block of senior consulting hours, and a five-tier ladder that lets you start where you are and step up only when the work calls for it. Every engagement is led by a principal consultant, never a junior analyst.

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  • Senior-led, everytime
  • Vendor-neutral by design
  • One point of contact
  • Named solutions architect
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Running inside regulated estates

  • Halden Bank
  • Verity Health
  • Northwind Freight
  • Copperline Energy
  • Meridian Rail
  • Ferro Group
  • Arcadia Care
  • Lumen Retail

Practice overview

Senior IT leadership, sized for growing businesses

The same five-tier advisory model runs across every engagement — a predictable monthly retainer, senior consultant hours, and a clear line from your first diagnostic to compliance-ready governance.

Foundation & efficiency

The entry point for small and growing businesses without internal IT leadership. This category stabilizes spending and core tooling first, then eliminates the manual workflows quietly draining employee hours — the operational hygiene everything above it depends on.

IT Foundation & Cost Optimization

Engineered for small and growing businesses operating without internal IT leadership that need to stop overspending onsoftware and eliminate random tech downtime. This light-touch, continuous advisory retainer injects predictableoperational governance to stabilize standard tools, clean up licensing redundancies, and establish budget predictability.

Enterprise

SaaS Optimization & Automation

Targets operational inefficiencies caused by application fragmentation and data silos. This retainer continuouslystructures data flows across departments, maps operational paths, and designs secure system-to-system integrations toreclaim valuable employee working hours.

Enterprise

Transformation & scale

The bridge from a stabilized foundation to an enterprise-grade operating base — full cloud migrations and structured ERP, CRM, or Field-Service selection, with mccloudCo serving as your technology representative to keep third-party engineering on time and on scope.

Cloud & Core System Roadmapping

Handles the operational weight of identifying, vetting, scoring, and designing transitions for core system migrations (suchas complex ERP, CRM, or Field Service management updates) and full-scale migrations into cloud architecture sets.

Available

Audit stream to your SIEM

Every read, permission change and export, retained 400 days and streamed to Splunk, Chronicle or an S3 bucket you own.

Enterprise

Leadership & assurance

The top of the program provides a continuous seat at the leadership table, split across two distinct triggers. Tier 4 answers "we need a technology leader" with fractional vCIO governance and budget control; Tier 5 answers "we need to pass an audit" with compliance readiness and secure-AI guardrails. Sold separately, and often run together at the upper mid-market.

Virtual CIO (vCIO) Executive

Our premier leadership tier embeds an experienced technology executive directly into your organization's leadershipstructure. The vCIO assumes holistic accountability for all technology execution pipelines, creates multi-year financialroadmaps, and aligns technical initiatives completely with top corporate strategies.

Available

Compliance, Continuity & Secure AI

High-level advisory designed to bulletproof data governance. This premium assurance tier prepares companies forrigorous external cybersecurity audits to close upscale client contracts, establishes deep disaster continuity plans, anddesigns governance boundaries for enterprise AI tools.

Enterprise

Descriptions summarise the Enterprise production environment as of this quarter. The SOC 2 Type II report and the security addendum on your order form are the governing documents; nothing on this page amends a signed agreement.

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Beyond the retainer

A full bench, not just five tiers

The advisory ladder is the core relationship — but most businesses also draw on these services, scoped and quoted independently.

Projects & migrations

One-time technical projects, scoped and priced apart from the monthly retainer — cloud migrations, system cutovers, and everything in between.

Hardware & software procurement

Vendor-neutral sourcing and purchasing support, so you're never evaluating vendors alone or taking a reseller's word for it.

Cloud & systems roadmapping

Forward-looking infrastructure planning that gets ahead of the next migration instead of reacting to the last outage.

Change management

Policy edits go through review, land in the audit stream, and can be rolled back to any state in the last 400 days.

Enterprise

Virtual CIO advisory

Executive-level technology guidance, available as a standalone add-on or as Tier 4 of the full retainer ladder.

Compliance, continuity & secure AI

The same Tier 5 capability, available add-on style for businesses not yet ready for the full retainer.

See the migration guide
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Every add-on is scoped and quoted independently — ask your Client Concierge to combine a few into a single project.

Our Approach

Three ways to work with us, one way we run it

Every engagement — retainer, managed support, or a single project — runs through the same principal consultant, the same documented frameworks, and the same response commitments. What changes is the shape of the work, not how seriously we take it.

  • Advisory retainer The five-tier ladder. A predictable monthly relationship that starts with a diagnostic and steps up only as the work calls for it.
  • Standalone projects Migrations, procurement, and roadmapping — scoped and quoted independently for work that doesn't need an ongoing retainer.
  • Managed IT support Remote or hybrid on-site day-to-day support, sized to your environment and billed as a flat monthly plan.
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Enterprise rollouts, last twelve months

  • 5 Tiers one advisory ladder rom a light diagnostic to embedded executive leadership
  • 10–250+ Employee range served, from early-stage teams to upper mid-market
  • 6–12 mo Minimum term, by tier deliverable-driven work at 6 months, governance retainers at 12

Enterprise proof

Three regulated estates, migrated without a freeze window

Each rollout below crossed at least two regions and a formal security review. The numbers are the customer's own, measured 90 days after cutover.

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Halden Bank

40,000 tables under policy

Banking 9,400 employees

Eleven regional warehouses moved onto one policy engine in a single-tenant deployment, with the regulator briefed before the first sync ran.

  • 40,000 tables under column-level policy
  • 11 to 1 governance tools consolidated
  • 6 weeks contract to production
Read the story about Halden Bank
Two platform engineers pairing at a workstation during a migration

Healthcare 18,000 employees

PHI pinned to three regions

Residency rules that used to live in a spreadsheet are now enforced by the platform, with an audit stream the compliance office queries directly.

Verity Health Read the story about Verity Health
An operations team standing around a shared screen at a morning review

Logistics 6,200 employees

$1.9m warehouse spend recovered

Per-team credit budgets replaced a quarterly cost review, and the finance team stopped chasing owners for unattributed compute.

Northwind Freight Read the story about Northwind Freight

Take the next step

Bring us your budget cycle and your biggest technology headache

Every conversation starts with a real assessment, not a pitch. Tell us your organization's size, what's driving the timeline, and when your board or leadership team needs an answer.  You'll get back a recommended starting tier, a written scope, and pricing — no obligation attached.

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Warehouses, regions, headcount and the deadline. That is enough for us to scope it properly.

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