Virtual CIO Services
Strategic IT direction — without a six-figure salary.
Most SMBs can't justify a full-time CIO. Our Virtual CIO service gives you a senior strategist who sits across your technology, builds a multi-year roadmap, owns vendor relationships and reports into your board.
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- 95+ security & setup checks
- Written report, yours to keep
- No obligation, no sales pressure
What is included in Virtual CIO?
The pieces of Virtual CIO we set up, manage and look after on your behalf — across the Central Coast, Newcastle and Sydney.
Technology roadmap
12–36 month plan that maps every system to a lifecycle stage and ties spend to business outcomes.
Budgeting
Annual capex and opex planning so IT spend stops being a series of surprises.
Governance
Quarterly reviews with leadership and an annual board pack covering risk, posture and progress.
Vendor management
We negotiate, review and consolidate vendors on your behalf — saving more than we cost.
Who is Virtual CIO for?
Virtual CIO is most useful for businesses that match one or more of these:
- Businesses with 30–200 staff
- Boards needing IT visibility and accountability
- Owners who want IT to enable growth, not chase it
Virtual CIO at a glance
- Multi-year technology roadmap aligned to business goals
- Annual IT budget planning
- Quarterly board / leadership reporting
- Vendor selection & contract negotiation
- Risk register and compliance posture
- M&A IT due diligence support
Your Virtual CIO journey
Predictable, transparent steps from first call to ongoing operation.
Discover
Two-week deep dive: stack, risks, business strategy, gaps.
Roadmap
Written 24-month plan with priorities, costs and dependencies.
Operate
Monthly check-ins, quarterly reviews, ongoing strategic input.
Case study
Time Return (Allison Wigman)
Central Coast NSW
Professional services · Long-term partner
“Responsive, helpful and honest. Mat and his team at Chewing IT are reliable and get the job done. They are there for the long term to help you grow your business and manage those IT bumps along the road. No fancy jargon, just straight talk.”
Allison Wigman
Time Return — Central Coast NSW
Google Review · 5★
The setup
A growing Central Coast professional-services business that needed senior IT direction without paying for a full-time CIO — multi-year roadmap planning, vendor-strategy conversations, and a partner who understood the business well enough to make recommendations in plain English (not vendor pitches translated for the boss).
The engagement
A multi-year vCIO-style relationship — quarterly check-ins, technology-roadmap reviews, vendor escalations handled, and the inevitable IT bumps along the road managed without leadership having to think about them. The business kept growing; the IT plan grew with it.
Why now, on the Central Coast
Most Central Coast and Newcastle SMBs don't need a full-time CIO and can't justify the salary — but they do hit the moments when an honest senior IT voice in the room would change the decision. Annual budget. A vendor proposal that smells off. A board paper on cyber insurance. M&A due diligence. Buying or replacing a major line-of-business system. A vCIO is the answer to those moments.
Engagements typically run 1–4 days per month — quarterly business reviews, the annual budget cycle, vendor escalations as they land. We work with leadership teams across Wyong, Gosford, Newcastle, the Hunter and northern Sydney from our Wyong and Hornsby offices.
Virtual CIO — common questions
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More IT Consulting
Most clients combine two or three of these.
Industries we tailor Virtual CIO for
The same solution shaped around your sector's obligations and workflows.
Ready to talk about Virtual CIO?
Book a 30-minute discovery call. We'll tell you straight if we're the right fit.