Hire a real human CIO
for your business — instantly.
You tell us your infrastructure. We inventory it, watch it, and give you a technology chief: professional recommendations on future upgrades, honest budgets, and vendor decisions made in your interest. We've got your IT covered.
Your technology strategy starts this week
Not a consulting engagement. A standing executive service with a platform behind it.
Tell us your infrastructure
Machines, servers, cloud accounts, SaaS, licenses — as much as you want covered. Five minutes in the dashboard.
We build your baseline
Automated inventory and health check: what you run, what it costs, what's aging out, where the risk and waste are.
Meet your CIO
Your named CIO delivers an upgrade and lifecycle roadmap within five business days — then keeps it current, forever.
Honest pricing
Our platform does the inventory and monitoring, so your expert's time goes purely into judgment — roadmaps, budgets, vendor calls. That's why these prices look the way they do.
Essentials
- Assets inventoriedup to 10
- Roadmap refreshQuarterly
- Cost-optimization reviewAnnual
- Expert reviewCIO pool
- Vendor & purchase adviceEmail
- Budget planning—
- Advisory responseNext business day
- DigitalRiskWatchEssentials incl.
- Incident response50% off
Business
- Assets inventoriedup to 50
- Roadmap refreshMonthly
- Cost-optimization reviewQuarterly
- Expert reviewNamed CIO + monthly call
- Vendor & purchase adviceIncluded
- Budget planningAnnual budget
- Advisory response8 business hours
- DigitalRiskWatchProfessional incl.
- Incident response50% off
Pro
- Assets inventoriedup to 200
- Roadmap refreshMonthly + on-demand
- Cost-optimization reviewMonthly
- Expert reviewNamed CIO, unlimited async
- Vendor & purchase advicePriority
- Budget planningQuarterly board pack
- Advisory response4 hours
- DigitalRiskWatchEnterprise incl.
- Incident response50% off
Custom
- Assets inventoriedUnlimited
- Roadmap refreshContinuous
- Cost-optimizationContinuous
- Expert reviewDedicated CIO
- Team & hiring guidanceEmbedded
- Advisory responseContractual
- Special projectsScoped
Extra assets: +$25/mo per block of 10. Prices in USD — Canadian pricing on instantcio.ca.
The Full C-Suite: add a real human CISO for 50% off. Forever.
Strategy is half the picture. InstantCISO gives you a security chief on the same model — continuous non-destructive scanning, proactive incident handling, and someone accountable for your security posture.
Buy either plan, get the matching plan from the other brand at half price, permanently. And every plan already includes a free DigitalRiskWatch subscription — up to $599/mo value — which is what qualifies you for half-price incident response.
Advice you can trust, by construction
Vendor-neutral, always
We don't resell hardware, licenses, or cloud. No commissions, no kickbacks — our only revenue is your subscription, so every recommendation is made in your interest alone.
Grounded in your real data
Recommendations come from a live inventory of what you actually run — verified, monitored, and logged — not from a questionnaire you filled in once. How verification works.
Real, named humans
Your CIO has a name, a face, credentials, and your account in their book. Meet them on your dashboard — they write your roadmap and answer for it.
Fair questions
What does a CIO actually do for a ten-person company?
The same thing one does for a thousand-person company, at the right scale: decides what to buy and when, what to replace before it fails, what the cloud bill should be, which vendors to trust, and what next year costs. Most small businesses make these decisions by accident. Yours won't.
Why is this so much cheaper than a fractional CIO firm?
Because you're not paying a senior executive to build inventories and format spreadsheets. Our platform maintains the live picture of your infrastructure continuously. You pay for their judgment — the roadmap, the budget, the vendor calls.
We already have an IT company. Do we have to switch?
No — keep them. They operate your IT; we're the executive layer they don't provide. In fact, our roadmap usually becomes their work order, and everyone's happier for it.
Do you sell hardware or take vendor commissions?
Never. We're vendor-neutral by policy and by business model — subscriptions are our only revenue. When we recommend a purchase, the only person it serves is you.
Can you help with hiring our first IT person?
Yes — Business and Pro plans include hiring guidance: role definition, screening questions, and interview support from your named CIO.
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