Strategic direction
Where should your IT stack go over the next three years, and how does that align with where the business is going? Roadmap work, architecture reviews, vendor and platform decisions.
Fractional CIO / CTO · Toronto, Canada
Strategic IT leadership for the business that can't afford to hire one full-time.
FourOneSix IT is the firm small and mid-sized businesses call when they need a strategic IT leader they can't afford to employ full-time. We see the business problem underneath the IT ticket, and build the roadmap that addresses both — strategy, architecture, and delivery across the Microsoft ecosystem, opinionated where it matters.
What we do
We run the IT side of your business — so you don't have to pretend it isn't there.
Most small and mid-sized businesses don't need another help desk. They need a partner who can translate the business they're trying to run into the technology decisions that have to be made — and who can actually deliver on those decisions.
Cloud and identity modernization
Landing zones in Azure. On-premises Exchange to Microsoft 365. Domain controllers replaced with Entra ID. Legacy VPN retired in favour of Global Secure Access. Delivered, documented, and handed over.
Change management for IT teams
Workshops that map your existing IT roles to modern tooling. Explicit reassurance that new technology doesn't put anyone out of a job. Your internal team ends the project more capable, not more anxious.
Financial clarity on IT spend
Capex refresh cycles traded for predictable opex your CFO can plan around. We sit with finance. We show our work.
How we work
The part most IT consultants skip.
The hard part of modernizing a business isn't the technology — it's the conversation between the people paying for it and the people who have to run it. FourOneSix spends a disproportionate amount of time in that gap.
Between the CEO and the IT team
We unblock the conversation, not just the infrastructure.
Most decisions in small-and-mid IT don't stall because of a missing tool. They stall because the CEO and the IT manager are operating on different mental models. FourOneSix translates in both directions, fluent enough in each to be taken seriously by both.
Engagement model
Projects with a scope, relationships that last.
Every engagement is a defined SoW — clear outcomes, clear end. What keeps clients around isn't a retainer. It's that the first project unlocks a conversation about the next one. Most of our long-term relationships started with a single migration.
Knowledge transfer
We make ourselves replaceable at the operational layer.
When a project is done, your team can run the thing. That's the point. Our job is strategic leadership, not vendor lock-in. If you want to stop working with us after the migration, the handover is designed so you can.
Financial partnership
We work with your CFO, not around them.
Cloud economics change how IT gets budgeted. We walk your finance team through the model, draft the multi-year projection, and make sure the operating budget reflects the real shape of cloud spend — not the shape of the hardware cycles you just left behind.
How we think
Business as a service.
Not IT as a service.
Most IT consultancies start with the tools. We start with the business — how it runs day to day, the people doing the work, what's actually getting in their way. The technical work follows from that picture, not the other way around. We don't decide upfront which specialty an engagement is about; the business tells us.
See how we map the work →Is this you?
Who this practice is — and isn't — for.
A good fit
You know the status quo has a shelf life.
- You run a small or mid-sized business without a full-time CIO or CTO, and you're making IT decisions you don't feel qualified to make alone.
- You have an internal IT team — or one person wearing that hat — and you want to bring them along for the modernization, not around them.
- Something on the horizon is forcing a decision: a security audit, a compliance requirement, a system that's visibly at end-of-life.
- You want a second set of eyes on a direction someone's already proposed — and you want those eyes to tell you the truth.
Probably not a fit
You already know what you want. You just need hands.
- You're looking for a staff-augmentation shop or a traditional MSP. That isn't this practice.
- You're committed to doing things a specific way, and you want an outside voice to validate it rather than challenge it.
- Your internal IT team isn't willing to engage with change-management work — workshops, role-mapping, upskilling. That work isn't optional here.
- You need 24/7 break-fix coverage. We partner with teams that do that well — we're not one of them.
What clients say, in their own words.
Credentials
Microsoft Partner
Azure & Microsoft 365 specialization
Toronto, Canada — serving clients across Canada
Book a call
Tell us what's on the horizon.
Discovery calls are thirty minutes. No slides, no pitch. We'll ask questions, you'll talk about what's actually happening, and by the end we'll both know whether there's something worth doing together.
Or reach us directly: info@fouronesixit.ca · (647) 371-0400