International CIO experience, for local business

You run the business. We run the technology.

We put AI to work inside the systems you already use, connect the ones that don't talk to each other, and give you a CIO for the days you need one. It starts with a 15-minute call.

VectorShift
  • Based in Brentwood Bay, working across Vancouver Island.
  • No enterprise retainer, no year-long programme.
  • We work with the tools your team already knows.
  • You own everything we build.

AI integration

Start where the work is repetitive.

Most AI projects fail because they start with the technology. We start with the four or five tasks that eat your team's week, then automate the ones that hold up under scrutiny.

Everything runs against your real data, inside your existing accounts. You see the cost before we build.

How AI automation works with us

Quotes and proposals

Draft from your price book and past jobs, so a quote takes minutes instead of an afternoon.

Inbound documents

Invoices, purchase orders and forms read, checked and filed into your finance system.

Customer enquiries

Sorted, routed and answered from your own documentation, with a person on anything unusual.

Reporting

One set of numbers, pulled from every system, on your desk each Monday morning.

What we do

Six practices. Most engagements use two or three of them.

Fractional CIO

The technology decisions are already yours. The experience doesn't have to be.

A 40-person company rarely needs a full-time CIO. It does need someone who has done this before, in the room when the budget, the contract and the hiring decision get made.

What a fractional CIO does day to day

We own the plan

One roadmap, reviewed each quarter, tied to what the business is trying to do this year.

We handle the vendors

Contracts read, renewals challenged, licences you stopped using cancelled.

We brief your board

Spend, risk and progress in language a finance director can act on.

We build your team

Hire the two people who matter, and stop paying for the ones you don't need yet.

How we work

It starts with a short call. Most clients take one thing off the roadmap first, and move to monthly days later.

01

Intro call

Fifteen minutes: what you run, what is slowing you down, and whether we are any use to you. A short written summary afterwards either way.

15 minutes, free

02

Assessment

If we are a fit, we look at your systems, spend and the work your team repeats, and write the roadmap. Yours to act on with or without us.

Free

03

Project

One thing off the roadmap, scoped to a fixed price and a fixed date. An automation, a migration, an integration.

Fixed scope and price

04

Fractional CIO

Ongoing leadership on a set number of days each month, with delivery capacity behind it when you need to build.

Monthly, cancel with 30 days

“Thank you for doing this. I could never have negotiated this.”
Scott Wiley
Executive Director, St. Vital Minor Hockey Association

Book a 15-minute call.

What you run, what is slowing you down, and whether we are any use to you. If we are a fit, the assessment that follows is free, and so is the roadmap it produces.

  • Fifteen minutes, and a written summary afterwards either way
  • Then, if we are a fit: a ranked list of what to fix, and what it costs
  • A 12-month roadmap you can hand to any supplier, yours to keep

Tell us where to start

We reply within one working day. No sales sequence.