Your IT department. Without the department.
Onboarding, support, security, and the tools that keep everyone working, handled day to day by the GSD team so yours can get back to the mission.
Most small teams don't need a full-time hire.
When a 12-person org finally admits its IT is a mess, the usual advice is to hire someone full-time. A team that size rarely has 40 hours a week of IT work. It has about 8 good hours of the right work and a lot of quiet gaps. GSD covers those hours as a fractional IT function, sized to the work you have. The team handles the day to day, and Shiraz, as fractional CIO, takes the calls that matter. Month-to-month, with mission-aligned pricing for nonprofits and B Corps.
Onboarding, support, security, and tools.
Onboarding and offboarding
New hire starts Monday? Email, apps, files, permissions, and a configured laptop, ready before their first coffee. When someone leaves, every login is closed out the same day.
Support that answers
You message GSD and it gets handled, same business day on active engagements. No portal to log into and no ticket sitting in a queue nobody watches.
Security and access
MFA, identity, and device management, plus the everyday settings that keep a small team out of trouble. The kind of thing a funder or board asks about, handled before they ask.
Your vendor and SaaS stack
On paper the software budget is a clean list of tools you picked on purpose. In practice it's two apps that do the same thing, three seats still billing for people who left, and a renewal nobody remembers approving. GSD owns that list, so renewals, seats, and what's in use have one owner.
You'll recognize a few of these.
- Your tools are held together with duct tape and nobody really owns them.
- Onboarding a new hire takes days it shouldn't.
- A funder or board is asking security questions you can't answer yet.
- You don't have, and don't want, a full-time IT hire.
Shaped to the work. Month-to-month.
A monthly operations rate sized to your team, with mission-aligned pricing on day-to-day IT for nonprofits and B Corps. No long contracts. You're free to leave anytime, though most teams don't.
Get a quoteWhere the day to day is stuck.
The first call settles the shape of the work and what mission-aligned pricing looks like for your org.
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