Your organization needs a CIO.
You shouldn't need a $200K budget to get one.

Every component is built around your specific context — your industry, your technology environment, your vendors, your strategic priorities, and the questions you tell us you’re trying to answer. The briefings are filtered through your client profile. The Health Score is scored against your actual data. The Q&A responses are written for your specific situation. There is no generic version of CIO Advisra™.

Gartner and Forrester produce broad market research written by analysts who have never run an IT organization. It tells you what the market is doing — not what your organization should do about it. CIO Advisra™ delivers personalized advisory from a practitioner with 25+ years of enterprise IT leadership, filtered through your specific environment, vendors, and strategic questions. At $30,000+ annually for a Gartner research seat versus $750/month for CIO Advisra™, you’re getting more relevant intelligence at a fraction of the cost.

You submit your question through your private client portal. Dr. Bland responds with a structured advisory memo — typically 300–600 words — covering her CIO perspective, key considerations, and a recommended next step. The response arrives within 48 business hours. All Q&A threads are archived in your portal for the life of your subscription.

Every quarterly Health Score Report generates up to 12 prioritized recommended actions across four dimensions. Those actions are automatically pre-populated in your portal as a digital checklist. Your team marks items complete as you work through them. When the next quarter’s report is produced, it opens with a progress summary before scoring begins. Over time, this creates a measurable performance record — valuable for board reporting and budget justification.

Additional questions beyond your tier’s monthly limit are billed at $250/hour. If you’re consistently hitting your limit, that’s a signal that a tier upgrade or a Fractional CIO retainer engagement would serve you better — and we’ll tell you that directly.

CIO Advisra™ isn’t a replacement for your IT team — it’s the strategic layer above them. Most IT teams are excellent at execution and operations. CIO-level thinking — vendor strategy, security posture, IT-to-business alignment, technology roadmapping — is a different discipline. CIO Advisra™ provides that layer without requiring your IT team to work outside their wheelhouse.

The quarterly Health Score is the highest-value deliverable in the subscription — and it requires one full data collection cycle to produce. The 3-month minimum ensures you receive at least one complete Health Score and Action Checklist before evaluating the service. After 3 months, cancel anytime.