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For the Chief Financial Officer

IT headcount is your fastest-growing fixed cost. Make it variable.

Every technical hire is a $260K+ year-one commitment that takes two quarters to recruit and four more to reach productivity — then walks out the door with everything it learned. A Cloud Nerd POD converts that risk into one predictable monthly line item you can scale, pause, or expand with 30 days' notice.

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60–80%
Lower cost than equivalent internal headcount
$0
Recruiting fees, benefits load, severance exposure
30 days
Notice to scale the engagement up or down
100%
Fixed-fee — no hourly billing, no change orders

What changes on your P&L

Three problems a POD retires
from your budget review.

Unpredictable IT spend

Hourly consultants, surprise change orders, and project overruns make IT the line item you can't forecast.

  • One fixed monthly fee, contracted in writing
  • Scope changes quoted before work begins
  • Budget variance: zero, by construction

Headcount you can't unwind

Hiring is a ratchet — easy to add, expensive and painful to reduce when priorities shift.

  • Month-to-month after the initial term
  • Scale tiers up or down with 30 days' notice
  • No severance, no benefits tail, no morale cost

Spend without visibility

You approve the budget but can't see what it produces. Utilization reports aren't outcomes.

  • Weekly written report of everything shipped
  • Complete audit trail on every deliverable
  • Quarterly reviews you can take to the board

The comparison you're already running

Hire two engineers, or one Retain a Growth POD.

Hire two engineers

$520K year one
  • Fully-loaded comp, recruiting, tools, overhead
  • First shipped work: month 4–6, if the 50–70 day search goes well
  • Full productivity: month 12
  • Attrition risk: everything they know leaves with them

Retain a Growth POD

$360K year one
  • Senior POD + DAISA platform + governed process
  • First shipped work: week one
  • Full productivity: week one
  • Institutional knowledge: documented, retained, yours

Run the math on your own hiring plan →

Proof

What another leader signed off on.

Solar / Asset ManagementSalesforceService Cloud
-64%support cost per case

SunStrong Management

An Email-to-Case resolution agent replaced a planned 3-person support team. Live in 8 weeks.

STARTED AS A LAUNCH → NOW A GROWTH POD
Read the case study →
“The budget conversation took ten minutes. One number, no variance, and I can see what it produced every single week.”
— CFO, energy services company

Bring your hiring plan.
We'll bring the math.

A 30-minute briefing built on your actual numbers: the roles you were about to open, what they'd really cost, and what a POD delivers against the same budget.

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