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For the CIO & CTO

Your roadmap is 18 months long. Your team can only ship 6 months of it.

The list grows faster than headcount. A Cloud Nerd POD adds agents and Daisa, with a senior architect approving every release, so the work moves without a new requisition.

Days
Our agents and Daisa turn weeks of work into days
40+
Platforms available, with one primary platform on Core
Week 1
First production delivery, every engagement
100%
Documentation on every deliverable

What comes off your plate

Three problems a POD takes
off your plate.

Backlog that never clears

Requests from the business pile up faster than your team can ship. The backlog is a morale problem as much as a capacity problem.

  • Our agents and Daisa turn weeks of work into days
  • Your list ranked with your leadership
  • Business requests start closing in week one

AI adoption without governance

The board wants AI. Legal wants guardrails. You're in the middle with no roadmap that satisfies both.

  • AI that builds the work, with a senior architect approving every release
  • Human approval gates on everything that ships
  • Documented architecture you own, not us

Platform expertise you can't retain

Senior Salesforce, Workday, or ServiceNow architects take 6–12 months to hire and leave when a competitor calls.

  • 40+ platforms available, so one resignation doesn't stall the work
  • Institutional knowledge written down, not kept in one person's head
  • Senior-only, architect-led — no junior staffing

The comparison you're already running

Hire a senior architect, or start a Core POD.

Hire a senior architect

$327K year one
  • Fully-loaded year-one cost
  • Search time: 50–70 days minimum
  • Full productivity: month 12
  • Platform depth: one or two, maybe three

Core POD

$180K year one
  • Annual cost of a Core POD, $15,000 a month
  • Onboarded and shipping: week one
  • A senior architect on every release
  • Platform depth: 40+ platforms available, with one primary platform included

Proof

What another leader signed off on.

“We'd been trying to scope this for two quarters. Cloud Nerd shipped it in three weeks.”
— VP Technology, PowerSchool

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.