02 · Backbone
Ongoing Visibility, Budgeting and Progress Tracking.
Reporting, not direction. Your findings kept current, hardware and spend budgeting, the 90-day decision roadmap kept current, and project tracking. Month to month, with scope agreed before work starts.
When it's needed
The picture is only useful while it's true.
- Contracts and renewals arrive on their own schedule, across every company.
- You have someone who can make the decisions. What's missing is a current, independent view to make them from.
- Your investors or board want one report across all your companies, not a dozen IT firm updates.
How it works
A monthly rhythm, not another reporting burden.
The picture stays current.
Each month Keelson updates systems, IT firms, contracts, renewals, inventories, costs and risks through your IT contact and IT firms. Your team doesn't have to build the picture. I collect it.
Budgeting, forecasts and technology plan updates.
Spend forecasts by company, technology budgeting on a repeatable cycle, and the technology plan updated as priorities change.
IT firm progress check-ins.
Monthly, on an agreed schedule: what moved, what is waiting, what needs a decision. Each quarter, a planning review across every company. Keelson tracks; your IT firms deliver.
Projects and integrations tracked.
Open projects and acquisition integrations tracked to plan, with status reported plainly. A newly acquired company enters the reporting as soon as it is in scope, whether or not its technical integration has finished.
One executive report.
Spend, renewals, risks, projects and open items, written to be handed straight to your investors or board. If nothing needs action, it says so.
What you receive
One clear picture, every month.
- Your findings, kept current.
- Technology budgets and spend forecasts by company.
- Technology plan updates as priorities change.
- Monthly IT firm check-ins and a quarterly planning review, on an agreed schedule.
- Project and integration status, month over month.
- You see everything I'm working on for your companies, live, in a shared drive.
What comes next
When you want advice and coordination, that's Helm.
Backbone keeps the picture current and tracks progress. Helm adds decision briefs, advice on tradeoffs and priorities, and active coordination of the actions you approve. Either way, engagements run month to month.
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.