1 · The assessment
Everything starts with the audit. It documents where staff time and technology dollars go today, and it produces the roadmap the rest of this page prices out.
2 · Fractional CIO · pick the pace
One flat monthly fee covers the CIO relationship and the build work: advisory, vendor and licensing management, a quarterly report your board can read, a staff support channel, District AIOS hosting, and roadmap projects built at the pace you choose. No per-project invoices.
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.
3 · The roadmap · built month by month
The District AIOS is the foundation; every capability below runs on top of it. Building is covered by the retainer. 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.