A fractional technology executive for WA SMBs, on a quarterly cadence they can audit.
Most Perth-metro and regional WA businesses cannot justify a full-time CIO — and they should not have to. We run a quarterly vCIO engagement against a written standard: quarterly business reviews, a rolling 12-month IT roadmap, budget planning, vendor decisions, and ACSC Essential Eight alignment, delivered by a named Perth engineer who answers the phone in AWST.
What the engagement covers
Five capabilities, one written quarterly rhythm.
Each vCIO engagement delivers these five capabilities together — they are the floor, not a menu. Reduce any one of them and the rest stop holding up.
- Quarterly business reviews
A 90-minute QBR every quarter — on-site for Perth-metro and regional clients, video otherwise — with a written agenda, KPI scorecard and the decisions you need to make before the next quarter starts.
- Written agenda + KPI scorecard each quarter
- Decisions logged before the next quarter starts
- On-site QBR for Perth-metro + regional clients
- IT strategy roadmaps
A rolling 12-month IT roadmap owned by the vCIO, not by a vendor — tied to your business objectives, refreshed at every QBR, and version-controlled so everyone reads the same document.
- Rolling 12-month roadmap, refreshed at every QBR
- Tied to your business objectives, not a vendor pitch
- Version-controlled — one document, one owner
- Budget planning
Capex and opex forecasting one year ahead, with the assumptions written down and the variance reported each cycle. You walk into the budget review knowing the numbers, not reacting to surprises.
- Capex + opex forecasting one year ahead
- Assumptions documented and reviewed
- Variance reported at every QBR
- Vendor management
A single source of truth for every IT vendor — contracts, renewal dates, performance against SLA, the recommendation to renew, renegotiate, or replace. No more vendors you forgot you were paying.
- Vendor register with contracts and renewal dates
- Performance tracked against written SLA
- Renew / renegotiate / replace recommendation each cycle
- Essential Eight alignment
ACSC Essential Eight maturity graded at every QBR against your real estate, with the gaps carried forward into the next roadmap and the controls mapped to whichever framework your auditor reads.
- Maturity graded each quarter, not annually
- Gaps flow into the next roadmap cycle
- Controls mapped to your auditor's framework
Local context
Perth-metro reach, regional WA rhythm, written artefacts.
Perth-metro availability
Named vCIO + engineers on the road across the Perth metro area — Joondalup down to Rockingham, the CBD, Fremantle, Midland and the Hills. Same-day or next-day on-site where the engagement calls for it, with a written SLA per zone.
Regional WA + FIFO reach
Kalgoorlie, Geraldton, Bunbury, Esperance and Pilbara site visits run on the same FIFO cadence our managed-IT engagements use, so the vCIO continuity matches the operational continuity your regional team already trusts.
Quarterly on-site cadence
A quarterly QBR on-site (Perth metro and regional) or by video, with a monthly written posture diff between cycles and a written artefact per cycle — so the strategy ledger never goes stale between reviews.
Next step
Ready to put a fractional CIO between you and your roadmap?
Book a free 30-minute security assessment with a Perth engineer. You walk away with a written snapshot of your current IT, security and vendor posture — even if you never sign with us.