Fractional CTO for B2B Operations
You've got 80, maybe 150 employees. The business is growing, but your technology isn't keeping up. Production data lives in one system, inventory in another, and half the real numbers are trapped in someone's spreadsheet. Every time you need a clear picture of what's happening across the operation, it takes three people and two days to pull it together.
You know this is costing you. Missed shipments, surprise downtime, slow quoting, inventory you can't trust. But hiring a full-time CTO at $250K+ doesn't make sense for where you are right now.
That's the gap I fill. I work with manufacturing and agricultural companies across the Northeast as a fractional CTO, typically 50 to 200 employees, to get your technology working as hard as your people do.
Core Services
Your ERP is 12 years old and everyone knows it needs to go, but nobody wants to be the one who shuts down the line for a software upgrade. You get a phased transition plan that keeps production running while moving you onto systems that can actually support where the business is headed.
Right now your plant manager has one set of numbers, your controller has another, and your sales team is quoting off a third. When shop floor data, inventory, and quality metrics flow into one place automatically, you stop spending hours reconciling and start making decisions in minutes.
A machine goes down at 2 PM on a Thursday and suddenly you're scrambling to meet a Friday shipment. Demand spikes and you find out after you've already lost the order. With the right AI and automation in place, you get early warnings on equipment failures, demand shifts, and supply chain disruptions before they become emergencies.
Connected equipment and remote access points have opened up attack surfaces that most operations companies haven't accounted for. You get a clear picture of where your IT and OT environments are vulnerable, along with a prioritized plan to close the gaps that matter most.
You've probably been burned by a vendor who promised the world and delivered a tool nobody uses, or one that doesn't talk to anything else you run. You get an independent evaluation of what you actually need, and someone in your corner making sure what you buy works with what you already have.
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