Technology Advisory
For owners who are tired of being the translator between their business and their vendors. I coordinate, review, test and follow up - and you make decisions with someone who has done this before.
What you receive
Up to six hours a month of vendor coordination, project oversight, workflow planning and quick answers - plus a monthly planning call.
What's included
- Up to six hours per month, tracked and reported
- Vendor and developer coordination: briefs, reviews, follow-ups
- Project oversight: milestones, testing, sign-off
- Workflow and tooling questions answered within one business day
- A monthly 30-minute planning call
- Access for the "quick question" moments
Scope limits
- Six hours - additional hours are agreed first, then billed at the hourly rate
- Not a development retainer - build work is quoted separately
- Three-month minimum, then month to month
How it works
- Start
A short intake: current vendors, open projects, what's stuck.
- Each month
Coordination, oversight, questions, the planning call.
- Each quarter
A short review of what the retainer has moved and what it should cover next.
Questions
What kinds of things do people use the hours for?
Reviewing a developer's proposal, sitting in on a vendor call, testing a release before it goes live, choosing between two tools, or untangling why a form stopped sending.
Can it cover more than one business?
One business per retainer. A second is quoted.
Worth reading first
All articles- When to Hire a Technical Person, When to Rent One Technology stops being somebody's side task and becomes nobody's job. The obvious answer is to hire. Often that is wrong, and the reasons have nothing to do with money.
- When Your Tools Do Not Talk to Each Other Nobody sets out to build a mess. It arrives one reasonable decision at a time. What the disconnect is really costing, and why integration is the last step rather than the first.