“Strategic IT advice usually comes with a separate consulting invoice.”
vCIO is included with Aptik Assure. Quarterly business reviews, roadmap, budget planning, and risk reporting aren't billable hours — they're part of the service.
Strategic IT Leadership
Executive-level IT strategy, without the executive salary
Quarterly business reviews, multi-year technology roadmaps, and budget planning from a fractional CIO who actually knows your environment. Included with every Aptik Assure engagement.
- Reviews
- Quarterly business reviews
- Roadmap
- 12–36 month horizon
- Reporting
- Risk · Spend · Roadmap
What's included
Everything in vCIO Services.
All of it is in the per-user price. No modules, no per-ticket charges.
Quarterly business reviews
Sit down with your vCIO every quarter to review service health, security posture, and roadmap progress against business goals.
Technology roadmap
A living 12–36 month plan covering refresh cycles, security maturity, software changes, and major projects.
Budget & cost forecasting
Predictable forward visibility into your IT spend — software, hardware, services, and projects — for the year ahead.
Risk & compliance reporting
Plain-language risk register, security posture trend, and compliance status mapped to the frameworks that matter to you.
Vendor & contract advisory
We review your software contracts, internet services, and third-party tools so you stop overpaying for shelfware.
Project planning & governance
Major initiatives — migrations, office moves, new applications — scoped, planned, and project-managed end to end.
Honest answers
What buyers actually worry about.
“How do we avoid 'surprise' capital spend on hardware or software?”
The vCIO builds a 12–36 month roadmap with budget visibility, so refresh cycles and major projects are planned, funded, and approved in advance — not sprung at quarter-end.
“How is this different from an MSP that just wants to upsell us?”
Recommendations are about outcomes, not invoices. Because everything is per-user and bundled, there's no incentive to push tooling you don't need — only to keep the total predictable.
Proof, not adjectives
The plan and what it costs
A technology roadmap that lives in a slide deck is reviewed once a quarter and forgotten in between. Yours lives in the portal beside the spend it drives, with approve and defer next to each proposal.
- Spend by month, split into managed services, licensing and project work
- Every invoice line visible — nothing reaches a bill without a quote first
- Roadmap items you approve or defer yourself, with the reasoning attached
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Client
Brightpath Health
- Overview
- Tickets
- Security
- Billing
- Assets
- Users
Billing
Assure Complete + AI · 148 seats · Edmonton
Outstanding
$40,910
1 invoice
Average monthly
$41,478
incl. tax
Per seat
$219
148 seats
Next invoice
4 days
INV-202608
Spend by month
managed · licences · projects
Invoice INV-202608
due in 4 days
- Assure Complete + AI · 148 seats$32,412
- Microsoft 365 licensing$5,032
- GST (5%)$1,948
- Total$40,910
Invoices
- INV-202608-APT106Aug 2026 · issued Aug 1Due
- INV-202607-APT105Jul 2026 · issued Jul 1Paid
- INV-202606-APT104Jun 2026 · issued Jun 1Paid
No. Strategic vCIO services — quarterly reviews, roadmap, budget planning, and risk reporting — are included with every Aptik Assure engagement.
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