Independent senior IT judgment when your organization needs CIO-level guidance, but not a full-time CIO.
Grey Wolf Resources helps owners and management teams make consequential technology decisions, evaluate vendors and proposals, understand risk and tradeoffs, and decide what should happen next.
GWR represents the client’s technology interests. It does not sell a vendor quota, operate as an MSP, or manufacture dependency.
When the technology decision is bigger than the technology
A vendor proposal, licensing change, cybersecurity concern, staffing question, or platform decision can carry consequences well beyond IT. Cost, dependency, risk, operations, staffing, contracts, and the ability to change direction later may all be part of the decision.
Grey Wolf Resources provides an independent senior-IT review when management needs experienced judgment but does not have an internal CIO or IT director available for that level of analysis.
Senior IT Decision Review
$750 fixed-fee pilot
The Senior IT Decision Review is a bounded independent review of one important technology decision. GWR reviews the relevant context, pressure-tests assumptions and vendor claims, frames the business and technical tradeoffs, and gives management a concise written Decision Memo and debrief.
Typical decisions
- Evaluating an MSP proposal, renewal, or recommendation
- Reviewing Microsoft 365, licensing, or platform choices
- Comparing technology or vendor proposals
- Framing a cybersecurity or technology-risk decision
- Evaluating an IT staffing or leadership question
- Deciding whether a problem calls for a specialist, project, vendor change, or internal hire
What is included
- One defined management decision or closely related decision set
- Review of client-supplied background material reasonably necessary to understand the issue
- One management intake conversation, normally up to 60 minutes
- Independent analysis of options, assumptions, vendor claims, dependencies, risks, and decision criteria
- A concise written Decision Memo for management
- One management debrief, normally up to 45 minutes
- Identification of specialist involvement when another discipline owns the final professional judgment
The Decision Memo
The written memo is designed to answer the questions management actually needs answered:
- What decision is actually being made?
- What material facts and assumptions matter?
- What options are credible?
- What are the major business, technical, cost, dependency, and risk tradeoffs?
- What vendor or internal claims need to be challenged or verified?
- What should management do next, and why?
- What remains unknown or requires a specialist?
What this is not
The pilot is not implementation work and does not turn Grey Wolf Resources into your help desk or outsourced IT department.
The standard Decision Review does not include help-desk support, MSP operations, routine administration, emergency-response ownership, legal advice, HR advice, accounting advice, insurance advice, certification or audit preparation, penetration testing, managed security services, software development, procurement authority, or persistent privileged credentials.
GWR can review implementation proposals and advise management on them. Execution remains with the client, its internal staff, or an appropriately qualified provider unless separate work is explicitly scoped.
Who it is for
The Decision Review is intended for an owner, president, executive, finance or operations leader, or management team facing a real technology decision with business consequences and without an appropriate independent senior IT leader available to pressure-test it.
The best fit is a decision that can be bounded, where management retains the final decision and operational ownership.
Independent by design
The purpose is not to sell another technology product. It is to give management an experienced second set of eyes on the decision itself.
That means challenging assumptions, identifying hidden dependencies, separating vendor claims from business requirements, and making the tradeoffs understandable enough for management to act.
Start with a fit conversation
Have an MSP proposal, licensing decision, vendor recommendation, cybersecurity concern, IT staffing question, or other material technology decision that needs independent senior review?
Start with a short conversation to determine whether the issue fits the bounded Decision Review.