CIO TEARDOWNS
Real decisions, taken apart.
Every teardown starts with a number from a real engagement, shows what was on the table, and ends with the check you can run yourself. No gate, no callback.
TEARDOWN 01 · VENDOR ACCESS
You’re not buying a project. You’re giving someone keys.
A vendor quoted $82,523 to rebuild software that already worked. What nobody asked, what it would have actually taken, and the ten questions to run before anyone gets access to your systems.
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We priced one month of our own AI work on six platforms. The bill ran from $42 to more than $500, and the cheapest wasn’t the one to buy. What the bill really depends on, and seven questions to ask before AI goes in the budget.
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The documents behind the decisions
Teardowns keep landing on the same thing: nobody wrote it down. Policy templates, free to read and adapt, with the Word version an email away.
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