Cloud Run-Rate Cost Reduction
Apex Retail Group
Cut infrastructure costs 42% for a national retail chain with zero downtime migration
StatementCareFractional vCTO advisory, technical due diligence for M&A, vendor negotiation, and IT modernization roadmaps built by veteran engineers.
Consultants with 15+ years of practical battle-tested engineering experience.
We recommend architectures based purely on cost, performance, and longevity.
Prioritized initiatives mapped against financial return and engineering effort.
Deep enterprise licensing insight to negotiate 20-40% software savings.
Hiring rubrics, team topology design, and sprint cadence optimization.
Turn vague technical complaints into quantified business risk calculations.
Meet with founders, CTOs, and division leads to identify growth roadblocks.
Audit architecture diagrams, code repos, CI/CD, cloud bills, and SLA logs.
Quantify tech debt risk, compute ROI of refactoring, and draft action plans.
Present findings to the board and shepherd initial execution milestones.
Apex Retail Group was struggling with an inflexible legacy hosting provider, paying over $240,000/month with recurring outages during promotional holidays. We migrated their 800+ store operations to a modern AWS multi-account architecture in under 12 weeks.
A veteran tech executive joins your weekly executive meetings, guides architecture choices, mentors senior engineers, and represents IT at board meetings on a flexible retainer.
We routinely complete comprehensive code, architecture, security, and team assessments within 10 to 14 business days to meet tight closing deadlines.
Yes, because our consultants are actively practicing engineers who ship software daily, not theoretical career advisors.
Yes. We have saved clients hundreds of thousands of dollars on Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, and AWS renewals by benchmarking industry tier pricing.