One senior technologist doing the part of an IT department that makes the decisions — plus the hands-on work behind the advice.
Quarterly or periodic planning, a technology roadmap, budget guidance, and vendor oversight. A strategic IT brain on demand — without the full-time salary. You set the rhythm; you talk to the person doing the work.
Network and security assessments, backup and disaster-recovery planning, vendor stack reviews, IT policies, onboarding/offboarding procedures, incident-response guidance. The advice is grounded in hands-on experience, not consulting slideware.
The technical work is part of your retainer or quoted per project — transparently scoped. It is not an unlimited help desk, and it’s not priced like one.
Year one, Hummel LLC is not an always-on, ticket-driven MSP. That’s an honest capacity decision (a small practice, roughly five hours a week of founder time), not a marketing dodge. You get an advisor and a technician you can hold accountable — not a queue to wait in.
Few clients on purpose. No cookie-cutter stacks.
Pricing — labeled estimate
vCIO retainers commonly run $500–3,000/month depending on scope and cadence (public benchmarks, Sept 2026). Year-one capacity honestly caps the practice around 2–4 retainer clients — or one retainer plus scoped projects.