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IT consulting from people who run IT every day: roadmaps, budgeting, vendor management, and project leadership that keep your technology aligned with where the business is going.

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Overview

Strategy grounded in operations, not slideware

A lot of IT consulting ends in a slide deck. Ours ends in a plan you can actually execute, because we also run IT day to day. We handle monitoring, helpdesk, patching, backups, and security for real environments, so when we recommend a platform, a vendor, or a migration path, it is because we operate it in production. That keeps our advice honest: we have to live with the recommendations we make.

The center of most engagements is a technology roadmap. We map where your systems are today, where the business needs them to be, and the ordered steps in between, each with a clear owner, timeline, and cost. That feeds directly into IT budgeting, so leadership sees what technology will cost next quarter and next year instead of getting surprised by renewals, licensing changes, or an aging server that picks the worst possible week to fail.

We also take the vendor problem off your desk. Between internet providers, software licensing, hardware suppliers, and cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, AWS, Google Cloud, and Google Workspace, most businesses juggle a dozen technology relationships. Our vendor management covers contracts, renewals, escalations, and accountability: one point of contact instead of ten support queues.

For firms that need senior IT leadership but not a full-time executive, our virtual CIO service provides exactly that: strategic guidance, board-ready reporting, and decision support without enterprise-consultancy overhead. We work this way with life sciences and biotech companies, law firms, real estate firms, and finance teams, including environments with GxP, financial, and legal compliance requirements. We deliver IT consulting on-site across Cambridge and Greater Boston, and remotely everywhere else.

What's included

What our IT consulting covers

Technology Roadmaps

A clear, prioritized plan for your systems: what to fix, replace, or build next, in what order, and why.

IT Budgeting & Forecasting

Technology costs planned ahead of time: hardware refreshes, licensing, and cloud spend mapped to the business calendar.

Vendor Management

Contracts, renewals, licensing, and escalations handled for you: one accountable point of contact for every vendor.

Virtual CIO Guidance

Senior IT leadership on demand: strategy, reporting, and decision support without a full-time executive hire.

Cloud & Infrastructure Strategy

Design decisions across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft 365, and Google Workspace, built for hybrid and remote teams.

Compliance-Aware Planning

Roadmaps aligned to the standards your industry requires: GxP for life sciences, plus financial and legal frameworks.

How it works

How an engagement works

  1. Assess

    We start with a free assessment of your environment: systems, spend, contracts, security posture, and how technology currently supports (or blocks) the business.

  2. Document & prioritize

    You get the findings in plain English: the gaps, the risks, and the quick wins, ranked by impact so you know what matters first.

  3. Build the roadmap

    Together we turn priorities into a technology roadmap with budgets, owners, and milestones: a plan leadership can approve and track.

  4. Execute

    We provide IT project leadership through delivery: coordinating vendors, managing timelines, and keeping projects moving without disrupting daily work.

  5. Review & adjust

    The roadmap is a living document. We revisit it with you as the business changes, so the plan stays aligned with goals instead of gathering dust.

Why teams bring us in

  • Advice grounded in operations. We run managed IT for real environments every day, so recommendations come from production experience, not from a framework we read about.
  • Honest recommendations. Because we often operate what we recommend, we have no incentive to propose things that look good on paper but hurt in practice.
  • No enterprise-consultancy overhead. You get senior strategic guidance without the layers, the long discovery phases, or the billing structure of a big consultancy.
  • One partner from plan to execution. The same team that builds your roadmap can lead the projects and run the systems afterwards; nothing gets lost in a handoff.
FAQ

IT Consulting & Strategy: common questions

An IT consultant helps you make technology decisions that support business goals: building a technology roadmap, planning IT budgets, selecting and managing vendors, and leading projects like cloud migrations or system replacements. At Prevvi, that advice is grounded in operations; we run IT environments day to day, so recommendations come from production experience rather than theory.

They complement each other. Managed IT services keep your systems running (monitoring, helpdesk, patching, backups, and security) while consulting sets the direction: what to invest in, when, and why. Many clients use both, so the team executing the day-to-day work is the same one shaping the roadmap.

A virtual CIO (vCIO) gives you senior IT leadership without hiring a full-time executive. The vCIO owns your technology strategy, roadmap, budget, and vendor relationships, and reports to leadership in business terms. It fits companies that have outgrown ad-hoc IT decisions but do not need a full-time CIO on payroll.

Pricing is scoped per environment after a free assessment. The scope depends on the size of your environment, the state of your current systems, and whether you need ongoing strategic guidance or leadership for a specific project. The assessment itself documents your gaps, so you get value before committing to anything.

Yes. We align technology plans with the standards your industry requires, including GxP for life sciences and biotech, plus financial and legal industry frameworks. Compliance considerations are built into the roadmap from the start rather than bolted on later.

No. Prevvi is headquartered in Cambridge, MA, with on-site coverage across Cambridge and Greater Boston, and we deliver consulting and support remotely everywhere. Hours are Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm, with weekends by appointment.
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