Investment Builder — Mid-Atlantic District

1 · The assessment

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Everything starts with the audit. It documents where staff time and technology dollars go today, and it produces the roadmap for everything that could follow.

The stewardship guarantee. If the Findings Report doesn't document at least $25,000 per year in recoverable savings, the district pays nothing and keeps every deliverable.

Decide on the audit — save your selection to revisit later, or submit to move forward.

2 · Working together after the audit · Fractional CIO

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One flat monthly fee covers the CIO relationship: advisory, vendor and licensing management, a quarterly report your board can read, a staff support channel, and District AIOS hosting. Roadmap projects are priced per build — and the retainer level earns a discount on every build: 15%, 30%, or 50%.

For scale: the C&MA National Office is currently hiring one Director for Infrastructure & Security at $100,000–$115,000 plus benefits, roughly $10,400–$12,500 a month, and that role reports to an AVP for IT. A full-time technology hire in Frederick runs $17,000–$19,000 a month loaded. Every plan here is a fraction of either number.

The $7,500 promise. However many capabilities go live, the district's monthly total never exceeds $7,500 — about half the cost of a single full-time technology hire. Build prices are one-time, quoted before any work begins, and never sneak into the monthly bill. Turn any capability off and its upkeep comes off the next bill.

3 · The roadmap · built month by month

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The District AIOS is the foundation; every capability below runs on top of it. Each capability carries a one-time build price — notional for planning, negotiated after the audit — and your retainer level discounts every one of them. Once a capability is live, its small monthly upkeep (hosting, monitoring, fixes when Microsoft changes something) is added to the bill, subject to the cap. The order below is the build order.

Build · one-timeUpkeep once live

Decide on the retainer + roadmap — save your selection to revisit later, or submit to move forward.

Phase two: the church network. Per-church onboarding ($200–$400 one-time) and subscriptions ($99 / $199 / $399 a month by church size) extend the same platform to all 50 congregations. Priced separately once Microsoft confirms the nonprofit licensing structure in writing. Church subscriptions sit outside the district cap.