About the Founder
Hunter Strange
An accounting-firm owner turned CIO who built an aviation company's technology from the ground up and carried it through a corporate acquisition — now putting that same leverage in the hands of small businesses that can't hire a CIO.
Greater Mobile, Alabama · Founder, StrAinge Business Solutions · former Director of IT, PrimeFlight Aviation Services · former CIO & accounting-firm owner · B.S. Accounting
Most technology consultants come at small business from the tools side: they're fluent in the software but have never run a business, never carried a budget, never sat across from an owner sweating payroll.
Hunter has done all three. He spent six years owning a public accounting and advisory firm — a small business serving small businesses. Then he spent a decade as a technology executive, taking an aviation company from paper-and-spreadsheets to a fully modern, automated stack — and carrying those systems through the company's acquisition by a national operator. Then he went deep on the newest generation of tooling and found he could deliver, solo, work that used to require an entire team and an enterprise budget.
StrAinge Business Solutions is what happens when you point that combination — owner's judgment, an accountant's discipline, and genuine technology fluency — at small businesses instead of at the enterprise.
The Experience Behind the Advice
Each chapter is here for one reason: it's what makes the advice you get worth listening to. So for each, here's what it actually means for your business.
He's sat in your chair
Owner — Joel H Strange LLC (public accounting & advisory firm)
2010–2016 · 6 years · ran his own small business serving small businesses
Before any of the technology work, Hunter owned and ran a public accounting firm — a small business himself, advising other businesses across every sector. He delivered the books, the insights, and the technology recommendations, one owner at a time.
What this means for you
He's been where you are: making payroll, watching cash flow, wearing every hat. When he scopes a project, he's thinking like an owner who has to justify the spend — because he was one.
Ground-zero transformation
Chief Information Officer — GAT Airline Ground Support
2016–2019 · Peachtree City, GA · built the technology organization from scratch
Hunter took GAT from minimal technology use to a modern stack — standing up Google Workspace, an ADP HRIS, and analytics tools like Knack and Qlik so the company could actually make decisions from its data. This is the "horse-and-buggy to automated" transformation, done for real, at the executive level.
What this means for you
Taking a business from manual, paper-and-spreadsheet processes to automated systems isn't a theory for him — it's the exact thing he did as a CIO. That's the work StrAinge Business Solutions does for you, sized to your budget.
A decade keeping it running
Director of Applications & HRIS Administrator — GAT Airline Ground Support
2019–2026 · part of a 10-year tenure · SaaS suite across the U.S. & Canada
After building the stack, Hunter ran it — managing and improving a SaaS application suite across operations in the U.S. and Canada. Most recently he self-taught the Dayforce HRIS platform over a few months to lead a full system reconfiguration — work that positioned him to take on the HRIS Administrator role in addition to his IT Director role. The rebuild was performed in conjunction with Clearcourse Consulting and was so successful that at Dayforce Discover 2025, Hunter presented on a panel about how he managed such a successful outcome in a highly compressed four-month timeframe.
What this means for you
He's not a one-project consultant who disappears. He knows what it takes to keep systems running long after launch — so what he builds you is built to last and built to be maintained, not a demo that breaks in a month.
He took the company through an acquisition
Director of IT — PrimeFlight Aviation Services
Feb 2026 – Sept 2026 · joined through PrimeFlight's acquisition of GAT
In February 2026, PrimeFlight Aviation Services — one of the largest aviation-services companies in North America — acquired GAT. Hunter transitioned in as Director of IT, carrying the systems he'd built through a change of ownership and into a far larger organization. He led IT through the integration until September 1, 2026, when he stepped away to run StrAinge Business Solutions full time.
What this means for you
He's seen first-hand what makes a business valuable enough to be bought — clean systems, documented processes, operations that don't live in one person's head. That's the same work that makes your business easier to run today and worth more whenever you choose to sell.
All in on small business
Founder — StrAinge Business Solutions
Feb 2026 – present · Greater Mobile, AL · full time since September 2026
In February 2026 Hunter founded StrAinge Business Solutions to bring everything above — the owner's seat, the CIO's build, the decade of keeping it running — to businesses that can't hire a CIO. He built the firm alongside his PrimeFlight role through its first months, then made it his full-time work in September 2026: advisory retainers and technology builds for businesses across the Gulf Coast.
What this means for you
You're not a side project. This is the work Hunter chose to do full time, with the same systems discipline he ran at enterprise scale — and you work with him directly.
The delivery advantage
The leverage, in real numbers
An enterprise HRIS data migration — the kind that normally runs a team four to six weeks and tens of thousands of dollars — delivered solo with modern development tooling. That's not a parlor trick; it's the economics StrAinge Business Solutions brings to your business.
~$4
of compute for an enterprise HRIS migration that normally costs $25K–$50K
~8 hrs
start to finish, vs. 4–6 weeks for a typical team
15,000+
lines of working code shipped with modern tooling (Jul–Dec 2025)
97%
faster — three-hour workflows compressed to about four minutes
Proven on operational datasets tens of thousands of pages deep — fluent across the Google and Microsoft ecosystems, modern cloud platforms, and the developer tooling underneath them.
Why This Makes Him the Right Fit for a Small Business
He speaks owner and accountant
He ran his own firm and trained as an accountant. He thinks in payback periods, not features — every recommendation ties back to time saved or money made, and he can defend it to anyone watching the cash.
He's done it under real constraints
Aviation ground services means compliance, multiple sites across two countries, and messy real-world data. He's automated work that had to keep running every single day — not in a sandbox, in a live operation.
You work with him directly
No account manager, no junior hand-off, no telephone game. The person who built and ran an enterprise's technology for a decade is the person building your automation and answering your email.
"I've used modern technology to solve real business problems inside large operations. StrAinge Business Solutions puts that same leverage in the hands of small businesses."
— Hunter Strange, Founder
What drives the work
Buying back agency—not just cutting costs
Hunter's reason for doing this is simple: the time and money StrAinge Business Solutions saves a business owner aren't the prize—they're the means to agency, the freedom to choose where your hours go.
"When we strip the busywork out of a business, the owner gets to decide what to do with what's left," he says. "Reinvest it and grow. Or close the laptop and be at the dinner table, on the water, on the golf course. Either answer is the right one—because now it's a choice."
The same goes for their people. Cut the drudgery, and employees get to spend their best energy on the work only humans can do—not on the busywork a machine should have been carrying all along.
The bigger picture
An optimist about what's coming
Helping small businesses is the near-term work, but it sits inside a much larger conviction. Hunter is a committed abundance thinker—he believes the right response to accelerating technology is to build rather than to hoard, and that a scarcity mindset is the wrong bet for the decade ahead.
He follows the frontier closely, and he's genuinely excited about how quickly modern science and engineering are collapsing problems that used to look impossible. Within the next few years he expects real breakthroughs across a handful of fields he watches closely:
Space exploration
Reusable launch, autonomous spacecraft, and the economics of getting off-planet.
Human biology
Protein folding, drug discovery, and disease understood at machine speed.
Material science
New materials—batteries, superconductors, composites—discovered by design, not by luck.
He's especially compelled by Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV)—the point at which medical progress adds more than a year to human life expectancy for every year that passes—and he believes modern science is pulling that milestone within reach faster than most people realize.
It all ladders up to the same belief that drives the day job: technology, used well, gives people more time, more health, and more agency over their own lives. That's the future StrAinge Business Solutions is helping its clients get ready for.
Put That Experience to Work
The first conversation is free, and it's with Hunter — not a sales rep.