A CIO at the table — without the salary.
Most businesses don't need a full-time technology executive. They need executive-grade technology decisions: what to buy, what to retire, which vendor to trust, what the auditors and insurers will ask for, and what next year should cost. That's what ARX Consulting delivers — from a named advisor, in plain English.
Fractional CIO / CTO
Executive technology leadership for organizations that need the seat filled — board and owner reporting, vendor negotiations, team direction, and the calls nobody internal is positioned to make — without a $250K hire.
Advisory Retainer
Monthly strategy, technology roadmap and budget planning, quarterly reviews, and procurement guidance. The standing relationship that turns technology from a series of surprises into a plan.
Infrastructure & Security Review — $225/hr
A structured review of your infrastructure, security posture, and technology spend, producing a written findings-and-roadmap document your leadership can act on — with us or without us.
Compliance Advisory
Cyber-insurance readiness, HIPAA, vendor risk. We translate the questionnaire into a checklist, and the checklist into a completed file.
Vendor & Contract Strategy
Selecting, replacing, or renegotiating with IT providers, software vendors, and carriers. We sit on your side of the table and read the contract you're about to sign.
Due Diligence & Transitions
Technology diligence for an acquisition, a leadership change, or an office move — what you're inheriting, what it will cost, and what has to happen first.
Independent by design
ARX doesn't sell managed service contracts, and we don't take vendor commissions. That matters, because it means the roadmap you get is the one we'd write if we had nothing to sell you afterward. Where a recommendation calls for AI or automation, ARX AI can scope it. Where it calls for physical work — networks, cabling, A/V — our installation team can execute it. Everything else, we'll point you to the right vendor and help you hold them to it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the review just a sales pitch for something else? +
It's a paid engagement with a written deliverable — that's the opposite of a pitch. ARX doesn't resell managed IT contracts, so the roadmap isn't steering you toward a subscription. Some reviews become standing advisory relationships. Others end with the document, which is the point.
Can you work with our existing IT provider? +
Yes — and most of our engagements do. Advisory is provider-neutral. Sometimes the roadmap's first recommendation is a better contract with the vendor you already have.
We have an internal IT person. Does this still apply? +
Usually more, not less. Internal IT is typically buried in day-to-day work while the strategic layer — budgets, security posture, roadmap, vendor decisions — never gets off the whiteboard. We fill that layer and make your person more effective, not redundant.
How do engagements start? +
A strategy call to understand the situation, then either a scoped review or a retainer, quoted in writing. No long-term commitment to find out whether we're useful.