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Virtual CIO & Chief AI Officer Direction to Drive Your Company Forward.

EXECUTIVE ADVISORY • vCIO & vCAIO

Gain experienced vCIO and vCAIO executive leadership to steer your technology roadmap, evaluate vendors, eliminate shelfware, and govern your enterprise AI adoption, without the expense of a full-time executive salary.

1/4
Cost of a full-time executive
14 Days
To completed vendor & tech audit
100%
Vendor-agnostic advocacy

What We Deliver to Your Business

ZERO SLIDE DECKS • VERIFIED PRODUCTION ARTIFACTS

Every deliverable ships with working source code, deterministic --selftest verification, and strict Human-in-the-Loop guardrails. Toggle any tile below between ▶ Visual Feed and </> Contract & CLI.

20/20 Open-Source Blueprints Passing --selftestVERIFY →
DELIVERABLE 01 // MCP CLEANROOM
SCOPED JSON-RPC • ZERO LEAKAGE

90-Day Execution Roadmap

Prioritized list of technology fixes, automations, and projects ranked by business ROI.

ProtocolModel Context Protocol (MCP) over STDIO / SSE
GuardrailRead-Live / Write-Draft HITL Gate (OWASP LLM07/08)
HandoverCustom MCP Server Repo + JSON Schema Contract
DELIVERABLE 02 // AUTONOMOUS DAEMON
MULTI-AGENT CRON + WEBHOOKS

Vendor Diligence & Negotiations

Objective reviews of third-party quotes to protect your budget from predatory pricing.

ProtocolEvent-Driven Webhook + Scheduled Hermes Cron Workers
GuardrailZero Context Bleed • Isolated Worker Sandboxes
HandoverProduction Daemons + Dead-Letter Watchdog + Audit DB
DELIVERABLE 03 // SOVEREIGN HANDOVER
100% CLIENT IP • $0 SEAT TAX

Executive Board Representation

Clear, jargon-free technology updates for owners, partners, and board members.

ProtocolDocker / Proxmox VE / GCP Keyless WIF Deployment
Guardrail100% Client Git Ownership • Zero Vendor Lock-In
HandoverFull Source Code + SKILL.md Playbooks + --selftest Suite

How We Work With You. Step by Step.

FIELD-TESTED 30-DAY ROLLOUT // CLICK ANY PHASE TO INSPECT

Every phase produces a verifiable engineering artifact, passes an automated --selftest gate, and connects directly into your operational stack.

  1. 01
    DAYS 1–3 // DISCOVERY & AUDITOUTPUT: SHADOW IT & BOTTLENECK LEDGER

    Conduct an operational audit of your systems, vendor contracts, and security practices.

    Gate: Baseline Time-Leak Quantified • Access Scopes Locked● ACTIVE PHASE
    $ hermes audit --stack --shadow-it --export-ledger
    [DAY 01] Mapped 14 SaaS endpoints, PostgreSQL schemas, and manual spreadsheet handoffs.
    [DAY 02] Identified 18.5 hrs/wk manual re-entry bottleneck between CRM and accounting.
    [DAY 03] Signed off on least-privilege OAuth/OIDC scopes and zero-trust boundary spec.
  2. 02
    DAYS 4–10 // CLEANROOM ARCHITECTUREOUTPUT: SCOPED MCP SERVER GATEWAY

    Build a straightforward 90-day and 1-year technology roadmap aligned with company revenue goals.

    Gate: OWASP LLM07/08 Passed • Read/Write Boundaries EnforcedINSPECT PHASE →
  3. 03
    DAYS 11–20 // LIVE PIPELINE INTEGRATIONOUTPUT: BI-DIRECTIONAL WEBHOOK & CRON MESH

    Lead vendor negotiations, review software proposals, and eliminate unnecessary tech spending.

    Gate: Zero Duplicate Records • Sub-Second Webhook IdempotencyINSPECT PHASE →
  4. 04
    DAYS 21–30 // SOVEREIGN HANDOVEROUTPUT: 100% CLIENT GIT + OPERATOR PLAYBOOK

    Participate in leadership meetings to provide objective, non-technical executive guidance.

    Gate: Full IP Transferred • $0 Per-Seat SaaS Tax ConfirmedINSPECT PHASE →
LIVE ATG DAILY AGENT FLEET // PHASE 01 SYNC
Real production agents running daily across Hermes Cron, MCP & Cloud Run
0Unapproved Client Emails Sent
ACTIVE PRODUCTION DAEMON

Engineering Time-Log & QuickBooks Draft Stager

Client Retainer Ledger → QBO Draft #4892 (Hardware vs Labor)

Pipeline: Git/Time Logs → Monday #18235418896 → QuickBooks Online
Guardrail: STRICT DRAFT-ONLY (Never Auto-Emails Client)
MCP_EXECUTION_TRACE // QBO-HITL-RECONCILER
[18:00:00.210][TIME_SYNC]Aggregated verified engineering hours across Monday Board #18235418896.
[18:00:00.580][QBO_QUERY]Queried live QuickBooks Online Item IDs (separated Hardware vs. Engineering Labor).
[18:00:00.940][DRAFT_STAGE]Created QBO Invoice in DRAFT status. Calculated retainer burn-down & overage delta.
[18:00:01.190][HITL_LOCK]Blocked automatic client email dispatch. Returned review link to Andrew & Dominic.
✦ AUDIO BRIEFING · ElevenLabs v4 · Sovereign Agent Telemetry0:35
QBO & Retainer Billing Guard (Engineering Time-Log & QuickBooks Draft Stager) • ElevenLabs v4 Voice Briefing
$ python skills/invoice-qbo-time-reconciler/billing_reconciler.py --selftest
✓ BUILT FOR (IDEAL FIT)

Mid-market businesses and high-growth operators needing battle-tested CIO/CAIO strategy, AI governance, and infrastructure direction without full-time executive overhead.

✕ NOT BUILT FOR (ANTI-PERSONA)

Micro-businesses looking for break-fix IT helpdesk tickets or hardware repair.

⚠ COST OF WAITING (DAILY LEAK)

Every month without executive technical leadership results in thousands burned on unused software licenses, unvetted vendor contracts, and uncoordinated AI experiments.

Where we start.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU TO BEGIN DAY 1

Company growth goals, top operational pain points, and current software vendor contracts.

Ready to replace manual bottlenecks with deterministic agents?

DIRECT FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL ENGINEER LED

You work directly with Andrew Jennings and Dominic Serra—not junior account managers. We inspect your live stack, quantify the exact hours and SaaS fees you can recover, and hand you a fixed-scope 14-to-30-day deployment plan.

Get a Custom vCIO & vCAIO Fractional Leadership Quote

Scope a deterministic 14-to-30-day deployment plan or book a live Google Calendar + Zoom consultation directly with our principal engineers.

Direct submission to ARIA executive operations. No sales spam or junior reps.
Why Talk to ARIA?
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Operators, Not Slide-Makers: We come from real business operations. We diagnose root workflow problems immediately.
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Custom Software & APIs: When off-the-shelf software falls short, we write production TypeScript, edge workers, and custom integrations.
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Sovereign CRM & AI Architecture: Zero vendor lock-in. Full ownership of your data, automated lead pipelines, and AI dispatch.
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Whatever It Takes: We step in, build the solution, eliminate the bottleneck, and it’s done.
Direct Priority Line
(248) 429-1497