Technology leadership for service companies growing through acquisition.
Every acquisition adds more systems, vendors and contracts. We help you see it all and decide what comes next.
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It starts with the 30-day assessment. No fee, and I only take on three at a time.
How the assessment works →Read the transcript
With every acquisition, technology gets more complex. Some of it costs you more than it should. Some of it leaves you exposed to risk. And some of it just needs a decision.
I’m Alec Langbeen, and I’ve spent ten years in IT, the last four at a growing IT firm where I onboarded more than thirty clients and led the IT onboarding for eight acquisitions in under two years for a PE-backed field service operator.
Working with clients growing through acquisition, I saw the same thing again and again. Good teams stretched thin, leadership focusing on growth and putting out fires, IT focused on keeping everything running, and nobody had time to step back and look at technology as a whole and decide what comes next.
That’s why I started Keelson Advisory. We give you one clear picture of all your technology: what you have, what it costs, and what needs a decision. And when you need more than a clear picture, we step into the technology leadership seat and drive those decisions with your team.
It all starts with our thirty-day assessment. There’s no fee, and everything we find is yours to keep. Whether or not you keep working with us is up to you after the thirty days. Click Apply below.
The problem
With every acquisition, technology gets more complex.
Every company you buy brings new systems, vendors, contracts, and its own way of running IT. Some of it costs you more than it should, some of it leaves you exposed to risk, and some of it just needs a decision.
- You can’t say what your companies spend on technology in total.
- Contracts renew before anyone decides whether to keep them.
- Your last acquisition still isn’t fully integrated.
- Projects stall, waiting on a decision.
- New AI tools show up before anyone has decided where AI fits.
None of this means anyone is doing a bad job. Your teams are busy running the business, and nobody has time to step back and look at the technology as a whole.
What Keelson delivers
One clear picture, and the decisions made.
Know What You Have.
Every company, system, IT firm, contract and risk, in one clear picture.
Know What It Costs.
What you spend, what renews, what needs replacing, and the budget to plan for it.
Know What Comes Next.
The decisions ahead, who owns them, and when.
The spending that shouldn’t be there gets found. The risks get ranked. The decisions that were waiting get made.
It starts with the 30-day assessment →How Keelson works
It starts with the assessment.
Step 1
The 30-day assessment
Every stalled project and the decision that gets it moving, your biggest risks ranked, where you’re overpaying, and a 90-day roadmap for what comes next. No fee, and I only take on three at a time. Everything we find is yours to keep.
How the assessment works →Step 2
After 30 days, continuing is up to you. If you do, there are two ways:
Backbone: ongoing visibility.
The picture kept current, budgeting, and progress tracked every month. For when your team can make and drive the decisions. Month to month.
About Backbone →Helm: technology leadership.
Everything in Backbone, plus we step into the technology leadership seat: researched decisions with a recommendation, including where AI fits, and coordination with your IT firms to get them done. For when you need someone to drive the decisions. Month to month.
About Helm →
Larger projects with their own plan and finish line are scoped separately. Strategic Projects →
Alec LangbeenFounder, Fractional CIO
Why Keelson
Why I started Keelson Advisory.
I’ve spent 10 years in IT, the last four at a fast-growing IT firm, where I onboarded more than 30 clients and led the IT onboarding for eight acquisitions in under two years for a PE-backed field services operator.
Working with clients growing through acquisition, I saw the same thing again and again. Good teams stretched thin. Leadership focused on growth and putting out fires. IT focused on keeping everything running. And nobody had time to step back, look at the technology as a whole, and decide what comes next.
Keelson takes no commission, margin or payment of any kind from any provider or solution it reviews or recommends.
Technology shouldn’t get harder every time you buy another company.
If technology is getting harder to see, budget, govern or move forward as you grow, apply for the 30-day assessment.
Or book a 25-minute call. No deck. No pitch.