Move the six numbers
that run your IT.
Measure, prioritize, produce. We assess your IT across six pillars, score it, and build the quarterly plan that moves the lowest ones — senior advisory, not a self-serve checklist.
An unhurried conversation about where your technology stands and what's worth doing next. No demo funnel, no pressure.
See how Advisra works →6 pillars
The same way a senior CIO organizes their thinking — governance, security, operations, infrastructure, data, and people.
Every quarter
A fresh assessment plan aimed at your lowest-scoring pillars, sequenced by senior judgment. An operating rhythm, not a one-time assessment.
Senior advisory
Your assigned advisor's read alongside the math — the technology questions you'd take to a senior CIO, answered by one.
How it works
Measure. Prioritize. Produce.
Advisra isn't a one-time assessment. It's an operating rhythm — we measure where you stand, prioritize what moves the lowest pillars, and produce the work that closes the gaps.
Measure
A complete baseline assessment across all six pillars, on a two-score model — the math score plus your advisor's read. This is your “you are here” map: a current, multi-perspective view of where the organization actually stands, delivered as a board-ready report at the beginning of your subscription and repeated annually.
Prioritize
Every quarter, a fresh assessment plan aimed at your lowest-scoring pillars — sequenced by senior judgment, not a self-serve checklist. Between quarters, monthly action plans, alerts, and always-on Q&A keep the priorities current as your environment and the landscape change.
Produce
The artifacts that actually close the gaps — governance charters, risk registers, lifecycle plans — so next quarter's number moves. Your portal Action Tracker mirrors the plan digitally; the next report opens with a progress summary. Evidence of value, not a delta we underwrite.
We measure, prioritize, and produce the gap-closing work. The score is the evidence of value — not a number we underwrite.
The six pillars
The six numbers that run your IT — and what moving each one looks like.
Most organizations don't lack technology. They lack a clear, current view of where they stand and what's worth doing about it. Advisra organizes that view across six pillars — the same way a senior CIO organizes their own thinking.
Governance and Strategy
How IT decisions get made and tied to the mission.
What moving it looks like
An IT governance charter; disciplined project intake.
Technology decisions made without business alignment turn into expensive rework. This is about who owns technology decisions in your organization, how those decisions are made, how they're tied to business priorities, and how leadership stays informed. When this is strong, technology investment moves the business forward. When it's weak, technology becomes something that happens to the business rather than for it.
Security and Risk
Exposure, posture, and compliance readiness.
What moving it looks like
Risk register; incident response plan; policy set.
This covers how your organization protects its technology environment, data, and people — and how it identifies, tracks, and manages technology-related compliance obligations and operational risk. Most organizations conflate compliance with security; the two are related but not the same. This pillar measures both: whether you're protected in practice, and whether you can demonstrate it when regulators, customers, or insurers ask.
Operations
How the day-to-day actually runs.
What moving it looks like
Service management discipline; defined SLAs.
Day to day, does technology work for the people who depend on it? This covers service delivery, system reliability, support responsiveness, and the operational discipline that keeps the technology environment running. It also covers business continuity — your organization's ability to maintain operations and recover when something goes wrong. When operations is strong, technology fades into the background. When it's weak, it dominates leadership attention.
Infrastructure
The foundation everything sits on.
What moving it looks like
Lifecycle plan; disaster recovery plan.
This is the actual technology environment — networks, cloud, endpoints, applications, integrations. The currency, reliability, and scalability of what you have, and the maturity of how it's managed. Strong infrastructure is invisible to the business; weak infrastructure shows up as cost overruns, downtime, security gaps, and projects that take longer than they should.
Data and Information
How data is governed, classified, and trusted.
What moving it looks like
Classification scheme; data governance policy.
Data is increasingly the most valuable asset most organizations have, and the most poorly managed. This covers how your organization collects, organizes, protects, and uses information to inform decisions. It includes data governance, data quality, analytics maturity, and your readiness to evaluate and adopt AI tools effectively. Most organizations have far more data than they're using, and far less control over it than they think.
People and Capability
Whether the team can carry the load.
What moving it looks like
Capability map; role and skills planning.
Technology runs on people. This covers the skills, capacity, and retention of the people responsible for your technology environment — whether internal staff, external partners, or both. Strong technology programs are built on stable, capable teams. Weak ones depend on heroics from individuals or constant scrambling for outside help. The gap between the two is one of the most common reasons technology investments don't deliver expected results.
The relationship
Advise, deliver, lead.
There's a path up the ladder when you need more than a plan — stated honestly, never bundled. You always know exactly what you're buying.
Advisra advises
We diagnose where you stand and build the monthly rhythm that moves the lowest pillars. This is the subscription — senior advisory on a cadence.
Need execution?
When the plan calls for hands-on work — a slipping vendor, a drifting project, a risk to contain — that's a separate engagement, our PMO Command offering.
Need leadership?
Fractional or interim CIO support, for when there's no one in the seat or the seat is overloaded. The clarity to know what's needed, and the bench to step in when it is.
Subscription plans
Same product at every tier.
More advisor access
as you go up.
Every tier includes the full Quarterly Health Score Report, the full Monthly Intelligence Briefing, the risk register and action tracker, and the advisory record. Higher tiers add advisor partnership — longer readout calls, mid-quarter check-ins, on-demand consultations, annual strategy reviews, and board-level support.
Not sure which tier fits? Book an intro call — we'll help you choose.
Tier 1 — Core
The full Advisra practice with focused advisor access.
- Annual full six-pillar Health Score (board-ready PDF + Action Checklist) — your yearly baseline
- Full Monthly Intelligence Briefing (email + portal + PDF)
- Risk register, action tracker, and advisory record — full
- 60-minute quarterly readout call with your assigned advisor
- 4 strategic Q&A questions/month — 24-hour advisory memo
- Up to 15 assessment respondents
Billed by invoice. Pay by card or ACH.
Tier 2 — Signature
More advisor partnership across the quarter.
- Everything in Core
- Quarterly targeted progress re-scores on your active pillars, each with an updated Action Checklist
- 6 strategic Q&A questions/month — same-business-day acknowledgment, 24-hour memo
- 90-minute quarterly readout call
- Mid-quarter check-in call (30 min)
- 1 on-demand advisor consultation per quarter (30 min)
- Annual strategy review (90 min, in-person or virtual)
- Unlimited assessment respondents
Billed by invoice. Pay by card or ACH.
Tier 3 — Strategic
Deepest advisor partnership, including board-level support.
- Everything in Signature
- 10 strategic Q&A questions/month — same-business-day acknowledgment and memo
- 60-minute mid-quarter check-in call
- 2 on-demand advisor consultations per quarter (60 min each)
- Half-day annual strategy review (4 hours, in-person preferred)
- Annual board memo or briefing prep
Billed by invoice. Pay by card or ACH.
Add to any engagement
Strategy is the foundation.
Add visibility and execution as you need them.
Advisra Portfolio Platform
+$500/monthContinuous, real-time visibility into every active project in your portfolio. You and your team keep it current; your advisor uses what it surfaces to inform briefings, reports, and guidance. Flat rate across all Advisra tiers.
- Real-time alerts on schedule, scope, and budget changes
- Custom-branded portal for you and your team
- Integration with your existing project tools
- Shared visibility between you and your advisor
Offered at launch pricing through the initial rollout period and may be repriced as the engagement matures.
Add the platform to my engagementPMO Command
RetainerHands-on execution support. When a briefing or report surfaces something that needs response — a slipping vendor, a drifting project, a risk to contain — PMO Command handles it. Your advisor identifies what needs to happen; PMO Command makes it happen.
Hourly rates, billed against your retainer
- Project Administrator
- $50/hr
- Project Manager
- $150/hr
- Senior Project Manager
- $200/hr
- Senior Partner
- $350/hr
Minimum retainer $3,000/month; $5,000/month recommended to start. Weekly status reports show hours used by role. Unused hours roll forward up to three months.
Talk to us about PMO CommandAdd either at any time — just choose them at signup or ask your advisor. Need a fractional CIO? Book a call or ask your advisor.
Launch pricing applies to the first 25 paying subscribers across all tiers. As long as you stay continuously subscribed, your launch rate stays. See the Master Advisory Agreement for details.
All subscriptions require a 3-month minimum commitment. Annual prepay saves 10%. After 3 months, cancel anytime.
We accept ACH bank transfer, credit card, and wire transfer. ACH is our preferred method — secure, fast, and no processing fees passed to you.
Questions about which tier fits?
No pitch. Just a conversation about your organization.
Need something more hands-on? CIO Advisra offers fractional CIO engagements →
Not ready for a plan?
Start with a one-time assessment.
The Clarity Assessment is a focused, 45–60 day engagement that delivers the same board-ready six-pillar diagnostic our subscribers receive — once, for a fixed fee, with no subscription required.
One-time engagement
$17,000one-time
Board-ready in 60 days. The complete diagnostic, delivered as a standalone engagement.
- The full six-pillar Health Score — board-ready PDF + Action Checklist
- Up to 15 stakeholders assessed; advisor reconciles the perspectives
- 90-minute advisor readout call
- 90-day portal access to your report, dashboard, and board materials
Convert your standalone Clarity Assessment to an annual CIO Advisra plan within 30 days of delivery and we credit a full quarter against it — your assessment becomes your plan's first annual baseline and your data continues uninterrupted.
Insights
On the Six Pillars
In production
Fresh pillar pieces, every four to six weeks.
We publish general, provocative perspective across all six pillars — the proof that we understand your world. The first set is in production now.
Founder & Principal Advisor
Dr. Jerri Bland
The practice
A method built by someone who has actually been in the room.
Advisra exists because the same problem kept showing up: organizations making consequential technology decisions without anyone qualified at the table. Our method — measure across six pillars, prioritize the lowest, produce the work that closes the gaps — is the answer to that, run by an advisor of record on every account.
The pedigree behind the method is real. Our founder spent 25 years as an enterprise IT executive — Deputy CIO at Columbia University, leading a technology organization of 140+ staff; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology at UNC Chapel Hill; and a senior technology leader across healthcare, higher education, and government. She holds a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration, plus PMP, Certified Scrum Master, and Six Sigma credentials.
Briefings, Q&A responses, and Health Score Reports are produced by senior practitioners and signed by the advisor assigned to your account. CIO Advisra™ is woman- and minority-owned, serving organizations in the United States, Canada, and internationally.
FAQ
Common Questions
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 senior practitioners with enterprise IT leadership backgrounds, filtered through your specific environment, vendors, and strategic questions. At $30,000+ annually for a Gartner research seat versus $1,800/month for CIO Advisra™ Core, you’re getting more relevant intelligence at a fraction of the cost.
The Technology Clarity Snapshot covers all six pillars of your technology environment — Governance and Strategy, Security and Risk, Operations, Infrastructure, Data and Information, and People and Capability — and delivers a scored, color-rated clarity report immediately upon completion. It identifies where your organization is strong, where it’s at risk, and what’s worth doing first. It takes 5 minutes, 24 questions, and requires no commitment of any kind.
Full CIO Advisra subscribers are scored on the same six pillars every quarter, with weighting configured to their organization’s priorities and vertical, trend tracking from prior quarters, a full Action Checklist, monthly Intelligence Briefings, and on-demand advisory access. The snapshot is a diagnostic. The subscription is the ongoing strategic relationship built on top of it.
Launch pricing is in effect for the first 25 paying subscribers across all tiers combined. Once the launch cohort fills, prevailing pricing applies to all new subscribers. If you join under launch pricing, your rate stays for as long as you remain continuously subscribed — cancellation forfeits the launch rate. See the Master Advisory Agreement for the full terms.
You submit your question through your private client portal. A senior advisor responds with a structured advisory memo — typically 300–600 words — covering CIO perspective, key considerations, and a recommended next step. Turnaround is tier-set: Core delivers a memo within 24 hours; Signature acknowledges within the same business day and delivers a memo within 24 hours; Strategic acknowledges and delivers the memo within the same business day. All Q&A threads are archived in your portal for the life of your subscription.
Every quarterly Health Score Report generates prioritized recommended actions across all six pillars. 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.
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.
CIO Advisra is designed for organizations that need strategic IT leadership delivered asynchronously — without the commitment of an ongoing engagement. If your situation calls for something more hands-on — a fractional CIO actively leading your technology function, managing vendors, or steering a major initiative — that is a different kind of relationship.
CIO Advisra offers fractional CIO engagements for exactly that need. Reach out and we’ll help you figure out which model fits where you are right now.
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.
Your advisor uses the platform to inform Monthly Intelligence Briefings, Quarterly Health Score Reports, and strategic recommendations. They review what the platform surfaces about your portfolio and incorporate relevant insights into your action plan.
Day-to-day platform management — updating project data, triaging alerts, driving follow-up actions — is your team’s responsibility. If you’d like hands-on response and remediation support beyond what your advisor provides, see PMO Command.
PMO Command is a senior fractional PMO team available on retainer. The team triages portfolio alerts, writes recommendations, runs light remediation, briefs your executive sponsor, and handles the day-to-day project response work — at whatever level of engagement you specify.
You set the retainer; we deliver to it. Work is billed transparently at role rates, and you receive a weekly status report showing exactly what was done and which role delivered each hour.
PMO Command operates as a professional services retainer. You commit to a monthly retainer amount. Work is billed by the hour against your retainer at the role rate (Project Administrator $50, Project Manager $150, Senior PM $200, Senior Partner $350). Each week you receive a status report showing hours used by role and work completed. Unused hours roll forward up to three months.
Yes. Both can be added at any point during your Advisra subscription. We’ll scope your starting retainer or platform configuration during a brief setup conversation.
Additional work beyond your monthly retainer is billed at the same role rates. You receive a notification when your retainer balance approaches zero, and you decide whether to authorize additional work, slow the engagement, or increase your retainer for the next month.
See where you stand,
and what to do next.
An unhurried conversation about your six pillars — where you're strong, where you're exposed, and what's worth doing first. No pitch, no demo funnel. Just a clear next step while the impression is warm.