Mobile, AL · Baldwin County · Gulf Coast
Fractional CIO for Gulf Coast Businesses
You've outgrown "the person who's good with computers," but a full-time technology executive isn't in the budget. A fractional CIO gives you that judgment part-time: someone who owns the roadmap, manages the vendors and answers to you.
StrAinge Business Solutions provides fractional CIO services to businesses in Mobile, Baldwin County and across the Gulf Coast. The fractional CIO is founder Hunter Strange, a former Chief Information Officer who built a company's technology organization from scratch and later carried it through an acquisition. The Partner plan, which includes fractional-CIO advisory, roadmap ownership and hands-on delivery, is $5,000 a month; lighter plans start at $1,500 a month.
When a fractional CIO makes sense
- You have roughly 10 to 200 people and nobody whose job is to decide how your technology fits together.
- You pay for a pile of software subscriptions and aren't sure which ones earn their keep.
- Your IT provider keeps the computers running, but nobody is planning what you need next year.
- You're preparing to grow, raise money, or sell, and your systems need to hold up to scrutiny.
What your fractional CIO does
Owns the technology roadmap
A written plan for the next 12 months, tied to your business goals and budget, reviewed with you every month.
Manages vendors and software
Evaluates proposals, negotiates renewals, cuts subscriptions you don't use, and keeps your IT provider and software vendors accountable.
Security and access
Who can get into what, what happens when someone leaves, and the basic controls insurers and larger customers now ask about.
SI decisions
Where Super Intelligence (SI) tools fit in your business, which ones are safe to use, and the rules your team follows.
What this looks like in real work
Founder background
A CIO who built it, ran it, and took it through an acquisition
As CIO of GAT Airline Ground Support, Hunter took the company from minimal technology to a modern stack (Google Workspace, an HR system, analytics). He then ran that application suite across the U.S. and Canada for years and led IT through the company's 2026 acquisition by PrimeFlight Aviation Services. Before that, he owned a public accounting firm for six years.
Read Hunter's background→Founder's prior work, at a former employer
5,689 employees moved between HR systems
Hunter built the migration from one HR system to another for a 5,689-employee workforce in the U.S. and Canada, solo, in 38 days from first line of code to production cutoff, for $3.58 in total cloud spend.
Read the case study→What it costs
Published prices, the same for every client. No hourly billing.
Partner
Fractional-CIO advisory, roadmap ownership and priority delivery
$5,000 / mo
Standard
Ongoing builds and automations plus a monthly strategy session
$3,000 / mo
Essential
Priority support, maintenance and monthly improvements
$1,500 / mo
Total-business advisory
Lighter monthly advice across the whole business, technology included
$395 – $750 / mo
Built on real-world experience
Led by the former CIO of an aviation-services company acquired by PrimeFlight—now applying that same enterprise-grade fluency to businesses of every size.
You're not hiring a faceless agency. You work directly with the person who, at a prior employer, migrated 5,689 employees between HR systems solo for $3.58 in cloud costs, and cut a 60-minute HR process to about 6.
Meet the founderWhere we work
StrAinge Business Solutions is based in Mobile, Alabama. We work with businesses in Mobile and Baldwin County in person when it helps (a walkthrough of how work actually moves through your office is often the fastest way to find the problem), and remotely for everything else. Clients outside the Gulf Coast work with us the same way, by video and shared documents.
Questions people ask
What does a fractional CIO cost?
Our Partner plan is $5,000 a month and includes fractional-CIO advisory, technology roadmap ownership and hands-on delivery. Lighter support plans start at $1,500 a month, and whole-business advisory runs $395–$750 a month. All plans are published.
What's the difference between a fractional CIO and a managed IT provider?
A managed IT provider runs your devices, network and help desk. A fractional CIO decides what technology the business needs, in what order, and at what cost, and holds the vendors (including your IT provider) to it. Many businesses need both; we work alongside your IT provider rather than replacing it.
Is my business big enough to need one?
If technology decisions are being made by whoever has time, and those decisions cost real money, it's worth a conversation. The service is built for businesses of roughly 10 to 200 people.
Do you only work with businesses near Mobile, AL?
We're based in Mobile and meet in person in Mobile and Baldwin County when it helps, but most of the work happens remotely, so location isn't a barrier.
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