Fractional CIO services for 10–75 employee businesses in central Oklahoma. Strategic technology direction your business has outgrown — at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
You've reached the point where every new system, vendor decision, or security question needs someone who can think strategically — not just fix what's broken.
Salary, benefits, and bonus for an experienced IT Director quickly cross $200,000 — before you've even hired a team underneath them. Most 10–75 employee businesses can't justify it.
Managed service providers are excellent at break-fix and patch management. They are not in the business of advising your three-year roadmap, negotiating your vendor contracts, or stress-testing your risk register.
Your support provider, software vendors, ISP, and security tools each have their own contact, contract, and finger-pointing. When something breaks across them — and it always does — the business owner becomes the middleman. That's not your job.
Cyber insurance underwriters, regulators, and clients are demanding security postures most SMBs are unprepared for. Without strategic IT leadership, you're flying blind on decisions that matter most.
A vCIO sits in the strategic seat: setting direction, managing vendors, controlling spend, and owning risk. Day-to-day technical work stays with your MSP or in-house staff.
Three-year technology plan aligned to where the business is going, not where it's been.
Risk register, security posture assessment, incident response readiness, cyber insurance alignment.
Contract review, renewal negotiation, MSP performance, consolidation opportunities.
Microsoft 365, Azure, infrastructure decisions, identity strategy, Conditional Access design.
IT capital and operating budgets, project ROI, refresh cycles, license optimization.
Microsoft Copilot deployment, workflow automation, practical AI strategy tied to business outcomes.
HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, PCI — gap analysis, remediation roadmap, audit prep.
Board updates, quarterly business reviews, vendor escalations — at a CIO altitude.
A vCIO complements your existing IT support — not replaces it. I sit in the strategic seat above day-to-day operations. Your support provider (or in-house staff) keeps doing what they do best.
I standardize around modern, secure, cloud-managed platforms — Microsoft 365 and Azure for identity and productivity, Microsoft Defender and Intune for endpoint protection, Meraki or Fortinet for networking, and best-of-breed SaaS for line-of-business needs. Vendor-neutral on the details, opinionated on the architecture.
If your existing stack is working, we don't rip and replace for the sake of it. If your stack is fighting you, we'll lay out the case for change with numbers attached.
10–75 employee organizations that have outgrown reactive IT but aren't large enough to justify a full-time IT Director. Typically $5M–$50M in revenue.
Strongest fit is with industries where uptime, compliance, and operational risk all matter — but technology decisions still get made in a hallway conversation.
I'm Grey Lawson. I've spent the last 24 years as an IT Director running complex, multi-site enterprise environments. Before that, four years in the infrastructure trenches — switches, servers, datacenters.
I started OKC CIO Partners because I kept seeing the same gap in the Oklahoma City market: small and mid-sized businesses that desperately need executive-level technology direction, but the only options are either a $200K+ full-time hire or an MSP who'll happily sell more services they don't need.
I work with one or two clients at a time, deeply. Not a roster of fifty. If we're a fit, you get a real fractional executive — not a quarterly check-in template.
From first conversation to ongoing engagement — clear stages, no surprises.
60–90 minute conversation. We talk about your business, your tech today, and what's slowing you down. No deck, no sales pitch.
A written summary within five business days. Risks I'd act on, quick wins, and what a 12-month roadmap would look like.
Monthly retainer or project-based. Flexible engagement, no auto-renewing contract, scope adjusts as the business changes.
Every 90 days we look at progress against the roadmap, recalibrate priorities, and report up to leadership.
I work primarily on monthly retainers sized to the scope of the engagement, with project-based work available for defined initiatives.
Ongoing fractional executive role. Tiered by hours, meeting cadence, and scope.
M365 migration, security assessment, vendor selection, compliance prep — fixed scope, fixed fee.
Published rate ranges. No commissioned upsells. We tell you what you need and what you don't.
Monthly engagement, terminable for any reason. We re-earn the relationship every month.
Tell me a bit about where you are and what you're solving for. I'll respond within one business day.