Unpredictable IT spend
Hourly consultants, surprise change orders, and project overruns make IT the line item you can't forecast.
- One monthly price, in writing
- Scope changes priced before work begins
- You never pay more than the price you approved
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For the Chief Financial Officer
IT headcount is your fastest-growing fixed cost. Make it variable.
Two senior hires are a $540,000 year-one commitment. Filling the jobs takes 50 to 70 days, and full speed takes several months after that. A Cloud Nerd POD turns that into one monthly price you can scale up or down.
About half
The cost of hiring, for the comparisons on this page
$0
Recruiting fees, benefits load, severance exposure
30 days
Notice to scale the engagement up or down
100%
Of work approved before it starts
What changes on your P&L
Three problems a POD retires
from your budget review.
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. A report of hours worked doesn't tell you what got built.
- Weekly written report of everything shipped
- Complete audit trail on every deliverable
- Quarterly reviews you can take to the board
Time
Your team stops waiting on fixes and doing work by hand.
Money
About half the cost of hiring, with no recruiting fees or benefits.
Revenue
Sales and billing fixes go live in days, so revenue that was stuck starts coming in.
The comparison you're already running
Hire two engineers, or start a POD.
Hire two engineers
$540K year one
- Fully-loaded comp, recruiting, tools, overhead
- Time to fill: 50 to 70 days (SHRM)
- Full speed: several months after the start date
- If they leave: you start the search over
Growth POD
$360K year one
- One monthly price: $30,000, the two-hire comparison
- First shipped work: week one
- Senior architect approves every release
- Every change is documented and stays with you
Proof
What another leader signed off on.
“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.