TWO BIT CONSULTING

You've outgrown "whoever is good with computers." You're not ready to hire a CIO.

There's a gap that a lot of small and mid-sized organizations fall into. You're complex enough that technology decisions actually matter — the wrong platform choice costs you six months of staff time, the wrong vendor relationship costs you real money, and nobody thinking strategically about any of it costs you both. But you're not big enough to justify a full-time technology director.

That's where fractional IT leadership comes in. You get someone with senior-level experience thinking about your technology the way a CIO would — setting direction, managing vendors, planning for the future, and making sure the day-to-day actually works — without the full-time salary.

It's not a help desk. It's not a project-by-project vendor relationship. It's a sustained partnership where we learn your organization, your people, and your constraints, and show up as a genuine strategic partner.

In practice that might mean chairing your technology steering committee. It might mean leading a platform migration that's been on the back burner for two years because nobody had the bandwidth to own it. It might mean being the person your executive director calls before signing a software contract. It might mean building the IT policies and documentation your organization has never had but desperately needs.

Engagements are retainer-based for ongoing strategic support, or project-based for defined initiatives with a clear scope.

For eight years Jake Fowler served as Director of Campus Technology at a small, mission-driven creative institution, a nonprofit arts college with real infrastructure complexity and the resource constraints that come with it.

During that time he led a campus-wide ERP and student information system migration, rebuilt the network infrastructure across twelve buildings, implemented SSO and MDM platforms from scratch, and managed a seven-figure annual IT budget. He founded and chaired the Technology Steering Committee, bringing executive leadership and faculty into alignment on high-stakes initiatives including generative AI policy, data governance, and long-term capital planning. He authored the disaster recovery and business continuity plans, established the technology policy library, and restructured and rebuilt the IT team.

Jake also led the institution's transition to hybrid work and learning during COVID, which meant making fast, high-stakes decisions with incomplete information and no margin for error.

The work he cares most about in that list isn't the infrastructure. It's the committee work, the policy work, the vendor negotiation, the budget management, and the organizational change that made any of the technical work actually stick. That's what fractional IT leadership is built around.

Small nonprofits, arts organizations, and mission-driven institutions that are navigating real technology complexity without dedicated IT leadership. If any of these sound familiar, it might be worth a conversation:

A fractional engagement starts with a conversation about where you are and what you actually need. No obligation, no sales pitch. If it's a good fit, we'll figure out what that looks like together.