How We Work
Results matter, not effort. Unlike most consultants, we don’t charge by the hour.
You shouldn’t worry about a meter running if you need to have a conversation. People should not be rewarded for taking more time on something. You can’t run a business without knowing what something will cost.
No Surprises.
Return on Investment
Blue Raven provides technology leadership. For our clients, that means we:
- Save time you’d otherwise spend having to manage technology teams and initiatives yourself.
- Save money you may not need to spend.
- Save headaches from inefficiency, struggling projects, or security concerns.
We’re partners. We deliver peace of mind and unlock your ability to grow.
Fractional CTO/CIO/CISO Consulting
We provide ongoing part-time management, strategy, budgeting, planning, and assessments for your company as well as leading specific technology initiatives. We’re most effective when we can embed with your team and become a part of your organization.
These services span months or years, billed as a monthly retainer. Together we can gauge how much of a commitment you require. Typical engagements range anywhere from $5k per month to $15k.
Project-Based Assignments
Based on the initiatives or specific tasks in question, together we will define a set project fee after an initial consulting / discovery engagement. Budgets vary widely for these sorts of assignments.
Technology Mentoring
If your technology team is largely in place and needs support, access to tools, best practices and a network of vendors, we can provide coaching weekly or at other intervals. Varying by the size of your team and frequency of sessions, this can run a few thousand dollars per month and higher.
Day to Day
We solve problems, manage ourselves, and are here to help:
- We're remote but happy to travel.
- We'll invite you into our shared tools and messaging environments.
- We're flexible and can add and change objectives as you need. It's not "out of scope."
- We're a team not just a single consultant. You'll work with a senior leader, tech experts, ops specialists and more as needed.
Again, all for our agreed-upon retainer or fixed project fee.
Only results matter, and no surprises.
What We’re Not
We have years of experience hiring tech professionals, but we’re not recruiters.
Like every business we need to market our services, but we’re not a sales company.
While we can refer you to some great ones, we’re not a managed service provider.
We’ve got a background in software development, but we don’t sell dev services.
We do recommend vendors, but we don’t take a cut of their fees.
While our time and your time is valuable we don’t bill for hours.