— Fractional CIO · Southeast Michigan

Executive-grade technology, security, and AI leadership without the executive overhead.

Augment Advisors is a fractional CIO practice for mid-market companies and professional services firms across Southeast Michigan. We bring board-ready strategy, AI governance, and cyber resilience into your leadership cadence — on the timeline you need, and on terms that make sense.

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— 01 Sound familiar?

If any of these sound like a conversation you've had recently — you're not alone, and you're who we're built for.

These are the moments mid-market leadership teams reach out to us. Not abstract problems — specific, dated, often urgent.

“The board keeps asking me what our AI strategy is. I don't have a good answer, and I'm starting to feel like that's a problem.”
— CEO · Manufacturing
→ AI Readiness Assessment
“Our cyber renewal questionnaire showed up and it's 47 pages this year. Last year it was 12.”
— CFO · Professional Services
→ Cyber Renewal Readiness
“Our biggest customer just sent over a 60-question security audit. I have a week to respond.”
— COO · Tier 1 Supplier
→ Security & Resilience
“We're spending almost a million dollars a year on software and nobody can tell me what half of it does.”
— CFO · Mid-Market
→ License Optimization
“Half our employees are pasting client data into ChatGPT. I don't have a policy. I don't even know where to start.”
— GC · Law Firm
→ AI Policy Authoring
“Our IT director gave notice. We're not ready to hire a CIO, but we need someone the leadership team can actually rely on.”
— CEO · Healthcare
→ Interim / Transformation
“We're getting close on an acquisition. Their tech stack scares me, and our diligence team can't tell me how much it would cost to fix.”
— Operating Partner · PE
→ M&A Tech Diligence
“Our MSP keeps telling us everything is fine. I'm not sure I believe them anymore, and I don't know what good would even look like.”
— President · Family Office
→ IT Strategic Audit
“The auditor asked for our incident response plan. We don't have one. I'd like that to not be true anymore.”
— CFO · Mid-Market
→ IR Plan & Tabletop
“Every vendor is suddenly an AI vendor. I need someone who can tell me what's real and what's a wrapper around ChatGPT.”
— CEO · Professional Services
→ Fractional CIO Advisory
“We had a pen test. It came back with 40 findings. Nobody's done anything with it for six months and I'm losing sleep.”
— CEO · Manufacturing
→ Remediation Oversight
“Our board wants quarterly technology and AI risk updates. I need someone who can actually run that conversation with directors.”
— Chair · Healthcare Board
→ Board Briefings

If you found yourself nodding at any of these, the next step is a 30-minute conversation. No deck, no discovery questionnaire — just enough context to recommend a starting point.

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— 02 Practice areas

Three lanes of work, structured for clarity and outcomes.

Every engagement is scoped to a clear deliverable or executive cadence. No open-ended hourly meters. No managed-service upsells. No surprises.

Fixed Fee · 3–6 Weeks

Strategy & Diagnostics

Productized assessments that produce a clear, prioritized plan. The typical entry point before a retainer.

  • AI Readiness & Governance Assessment
  • IT Strategic Audit & Roadmap
  • Software License Optimization Review
  • M&A Technology Due Diligence
Investment
$18,000 — $30,000
NEW
Fixed Fee or Project

Security, Risk & Resilience

Scoped programs to reduce risk, satisfy insurers and counterparties, and prepare the business to withstand incidents.

  • Penetration Testing & Remediation Oversight
  • Security, AI & Acceptable-Use Policy Authoring
  • Disaster Recovery Plan Development
  • Incident Response Plan & Tabletop Exercises
Investment
$10,000 — $45,000
Retainer · 6–12 Months

Fractional CIO Retainers

Embedded strategic leadership inside your executive cadence. Board reporting, vendor oversight, roadmap ownership.

  • Advisory — 10–15 hrs / month
  • Standard Fractional CIO — 20–30 hrs / month
  • Transformation Lead / Interim — 40+ hrs / month
Monthly
$6,000 — $18,000
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— 03 Why Augment

Fractional CIOs are a crowded market. Here's why ours is different.

We are not a managed service provider.

We don't sell support hours, software, or hardware. We sell decisions and clarity. Because we have no incentive to grow your IT spend, our recommendations are aligned with what your business actually needs — and what it doesn't.

Law, technology, and risk in one perspective.

Most fractional CIOs are technologists. Most policy authors are lawyers. Augment Advisors is both — meaning our work survives both legal scrutiny and technical scrutiny. Particularly useful for AI governance, M&A diligence, and insurance renewals.

We operate at the speed of your business.

Engagements scope to weeks, not quarters. Diagnostics ship in 4–6 weeks. Retainers fit your monthly executive cadence. Decisions arrive when you need them — not after another round of strategic planning workshops.

Translator, not technologist.

Our deliverables are written for boards, GCs, and operators — not other technologists. If your CFO can read it and act on it, we've done our job. If it requires three follow-up meetings to interpret, we haven't.

— 04 How we work

Three principles that shape every engagement.

01

Outcome-priced, not hourly.

Engagements scope to deliverables and decisions, not hours logged. You always know what you are paying for, and why.

02

Governance-first, not tech-first.

We start with risk, regulation, and decision rights — EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, state-level AI laws — then choose technology that fits the constraints.

03

Translator, not technologist.

The work product is decisions and clarity, not jargon. Boards, GCs, and operators can act directly on what we deliver.

— Who we serve

Mid-market companies and professional services firms across Southeast Michigan.

Manufacturers and Tier 1/2 suppliers facing pressure from OEM customers on cyber controls. Law and professional services firms wrestling with AI adoption and client expectations. Healthcare networks and provider groups navigating HIPAA, OCR enforcement, and AI in clinical workflows. Family offices and PE-backed mid-market companies preparing for transactions, board meetings, or insurance renewals. Typically $10M–$250M in revenue.

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The augmentation imperative is not whether to adopt AI, but whether to govern it well enough to compound.

Whether you have a specific project in mind, are evaluating fractional leadership, or just want to compare notes on AI strategy and cyber resilience — let's talk.

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