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Firmstone Consulting

IT strategy and advisory

Fractional CTO and vCIO services for Dallas-Fort Worth organizations. Senior technology leadership and vendor strategy without the full-time hire.

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Senior technology leadership for organizations that need it without paying for a full-time executive.

vCIO engagements focus on aligning information technology with business operations: vendor strategy, infrastructure roadmaps, compliance posture, board reporting. Fractional CTO engagements focus on engineering decisions: architecture, build vs buy, hiring guidance, technical due diligence.

The right title is the one that signals where attention goes. The same person can fill either role.

What this includes

Fractional CTO

Engineering decisions, architecture review, build-vs-buy, technical hiring.

vCIO services

Technology roadmap, vendor strategy, compliance posture, and the documentation your board expects.

Board-level reporting

Translate technology risk and capability into business language non-technical leaders can act on.

Technology roadmap

Twelve-to-twenty-four-month planning aligned with the actual business plan, not generic best practices.

How this works

01

Scope

A 30-minute conversation about what you're trying to accomplish and what's getting in the way. No sales pitch.

02

Plan

A documented engagement plan with scope, timeline, and a fixed-scope quote. You decide whether to proceed.

03

Execute

We deliver the work, document everything, and stay available for adoption support after handoff.

Frequently asked

What is the difference between a vCIO and a fractional CTO?
A vCIO focuses on aligning information technology with business operations: vendor strategy, infrastructure roadmaps, compliance posture. A fractional CTO focuses on product engineering decisions: architecture, build vs buy, engineering hiring. The same person can fill either role; the title signals where their attention goes.
When does a business need a vCIO?
When the operational load justifies senior IT leadership but does not yet require a full-time hire; typically organizations between 10 and 500 staff with growing compliance or vendor complexity.
How are advisory engagements structured?
Month-to-month retainers with a defined scope and a written deliverable cadence. No multi-year contracts. You can scale up or down or pause without penalty.
Do you also do the implementation work?
Yes. The advisory engagement can hand off cleanly into managed IT, infrastructure, security, or AI integration work, or you can keep the implementation in-house and use us purely for strategy.

Let's build something
that actually works.

No sales pitch. No multi-month proposal cycle. A conversation about what your technology should be doing for you.

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