Solutions
Fractional CTO Services
Elevate your tech initiatives with our Fractional CTO Services, tailored for SaaS startups seeking expert guidance. With a proven track record of launching MVPs, onboarding customers, and initiating the next development phase, our seasoned Fractional CTO has also boosted developer velocity by up to 230% without additional staffing. From comprehensive assessments to strategic guidance and ongoing support, we optimize product development, align teams, and drive sustainable growth. Benefit from customized action plans, transparent reporting, and strategic oversight to propel your technology ventures forward, ensuring success while fostering team collaboration for long-term success.
CIO-in-a-Box
The "CIO-in-a-Box" service provides comprehensive IT support and strategic guidance, focusing on evaluating and improving technology infrastructure for startups and growth-focused businesses. It includes assessments of current IT systems, cybersecurity, SaaS portfolio, and more. The service extends to continuous support with project management, Agile and ITIL methodologies, and development of customized action plans. It aims to enhance IT operations, ensure security, and prepare for future growth, offering a structured approach to managing technology needs.
Project Rescue
Our Project Rescue services are designed to guide troubled projects back to success, focusing on practical and actionable solutions at every stage. Here's how we approach it:
Step 1: Roadmap
We evaluate your current status and provide tailored and prescriptive roadmaps involving business and tech alignment, change management, stakeholder definition, and executive engagement.
Step 2:Project Triage and Alignment
Our goal is to keep your project on track. This involves following the established roadmap closely and pragmatically, offering alignment and triage sessions as needed, and providing coaching for both executives and project leads. We aim for a tangible impact, including a 20% burn rate reduction and a clear path to project completion.
Step 3: Light Project Maintenance
To ensure the ongoing strength and success of your project, we engage in light maintenance activities. This includes regular debriefs, updates, and risk assessments, keeping everything moving smoothly toward your goals.
Step 4: Project Completion
Everyone looks forward to a successful conclusion. We assist in wrapping up the project, including help with managing contract terminations or renewals, conducting retrospectives encompassing the full environment, stakeholders, vendors, partners, and celebrating your achievements. It's a comprehensive closure process, after which we step back, leaving your team stronger and more capable - and you don’t have to see us again… unless you want to.
Tech Advisory
Lights On Advantage provides Techincal Advisory services with two types of plans. One for start-ups looking to get started or even scale and another for established companies looking to better leverage technology.
M&A Tech Due Diligence for SaaS companies
Lights On Advantage has extensive experience on both sides of acquisitions, both sides of data rooms, and more. We offer low overhead due diligence services for SaaS offerings; we look under the hood at the technology, process, and staff skillsets and provide you an in-writing evaluation.
Digital Readiness Briefings
Lights On Advantage provides quarterly digital readiness briefings for C-suite and board members that cover: what is working well in digital today, what is up and coming and usable in the next 1-2 years, trends for the next digital wave, and lessons learned that you can leverage. This can also be provided as a keynote.
Tech Diagnostic for Boards and Executive Leadership
Our organizational tech diagnostic focuses on 3 key areas: Modernity, Cost, and Culture.
We prioritize:
Building a custom Tech State of the Union for your company
Gaining an understanding of both the costs to keep the technical lights on and tech debt
Building a picture of the employee tech experience
Providing the risks with the current tech stance
Uncovering opportunities to leverage your unique unfair data advantages
Methods of Delivery
Lights On Advantage offers a variety of delivery options:
