Enterprise discipline, sized to your organization.
Seven ways to engage, from a half-day AI workshop to standing executive leadership. Each aims at the same outcome: a modern, secure organization that does more with the budget and the people it already has. Every engagement ends with something your board can read.
Fractional IT Director / vCISO
A named technology executive who owns outcomes, without the full-time salary.
Most organizations under a few hundred staff can't justify a full-time IT Director or CISO, so nobody truly owns technology: the MSP executes tickets, finance signs renewals, and risk decisions happen by default. The fractional model closes that gap.
On a monthly retainer, Donte functions as your technology executive: setting strategy, owning the budget, overseeing security, directing vendors, and reporting to leadership and the board in plain language. You get the judgment and accountability of the role, sized to the hours your organization actually needs. The same discipline that ran a $1B+ foundation's technology function and Air Force operations supporting 70,000+ personnel.
A retainer tends to pay for part of itself. The review that finds the risk gaps also finds the duplicate platforms, the licenses nobody right-sized, and the contract terms nobody enforced. At the foundation that discipline surfaced $15,000+ in recurring annual savings and held a $790K portfolio roughly $24K under plan during a deficit year.
What a typical month includes: a leadership working session, vendor and project direction, security posture review, and a written executive report your board can read in five minutes.
Best for
- Organizations with an MSP but no one directing it
- Boards asking security questions no one can answer
- Leaders signing technology contracts on faith
- A first executive technology function, right-sized
Microsoft 365 Security Posture Assessment
Know exactly where you stand, with evidence, not vendor fear.
Most small organizations run on Microsoft 365 with default settings and no idea what's exposed. This assessment audits your tenant against CISA's secure configuration baselines and Microsoft Secure Score, mapped to NIST CSF 2.0.
You receive three things: a triaged findings report in plain English, a remediation runbook your staff or MSP can execute task by task, and a board-ready briefing with a risk heat map and a costed path to a defensible baseline.
It's a fixed-scope, fixed-price engagement, agreed in writing before work begins, and the most common way new clients start.
Best for
- A board or auditor asking "how secure are we?"
- Cyber-insurance renewals with new requirements
- Post-incident "make sure this never happens again"
- A second opinion on what your MSP has configured
AI Adoption & Governance
Responsible AI rollouts that actually stick.
Staff are already using AI. The only question is whether it's governed. This practice takes an organization from "people pasting into free chatbots" to a measured, policy-backed enterprise rollout: tool selection, acceptable-use policy, staff training, and adoption you can measure.
The playbook is proven: in a prior engagement, an entire organization, 100% of staff, was onboarded to enterprise AI with guardrails in place from day one, reaching 98% daily active use and 4.0/5 staff satisfaction.
For mission-driven organizations, governance comes first: donor and client data never trains someone else's model, and policy is written before licenses are bought.
Best for
- An AI mandate from the board with no plan behind it
- Staff already using unsanctioned AI tools
- Copilot or Claude licenses bought but unused
- Writing an acceptable-use policy that people follow
Staff AI Training
AI fluency for your whole team, tailored to your tools, your policies, and your people.
Tailored, not templated. Every program starts with a short needs assessment: which tools you own, what your teams actually do all day, and where AI can genuinely help. From there the curriculum is built around your organization, with tracks that meet people where they are, from AI-curious to power users, and sessions shaped for leadership, everyday users, and the in-house champions who will carry it forward.
Hands-on, on real work. No hype, no jargon, no canned demos. Sessions cover what today's leading models (Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, whichever your organization uses) do brilliantly and where they fail, then put people to work on their own drafting, summarizing, meeting notes, and analysis, with plain rules for what never goes into a chatbot. Your team leaves able to use it the very next day.
Flexible by design. Delivery runs from a half-day essentials workshop to a multi-week program, onsite, virtual, or hybrid, and every engagement closes with a simple adoption-measurement plan. The approach is proven at organization scale: a rollout taught personally by Donte reached 100% staff usage with 98% using AI daily. Programs are scoped to your team and agreed in writing before anything starts.
Formats
- Half-day essentials workshop
- Full-day deep dive
- Multi-week program with tracks
- Onsite, virtual, or hybrid
Built around
- Claude · ChatGPT · Copilot · Gemini · your stack
- Leadership briefings and staff sessions
- An AI-champions track for your power users
- Your acceptable-use policy, or one written with you
Incident & Fraud Advisory
A clear head in the room when something looks wrong.
Business email compromise and payment-diversion fraud are the most common ways small organizations lose money. In the first hours, what matters most is composure and judgment from someone who has seen it before.
For the incidents small organizations actually face, Mount Xion advises the response: containing compromised accounts, establishing root cause, guiding your conversations with your bank and insurer, and redesigning the controls that allowed it. And the boundary is stated plainly: for a large-scale breach, the right move is a specialist incident-response firm. Mount Xion helps you engage one, direct it, and translate its work for your leadership.
The engagement ends with the briefing your leadership needs: what happened, what changed, and what to tell your board, your auditor, and, if needed, your insurer.
Best for
- A suspicious payment, invoice, or wire change
- A compromised mailbox or account takeover
- Post-incident control redesign and hardening
- An honest plain-English incident debrief for the board
MSP & Vendor Governance
Someone on your side of the table.
Your MSP, your software vendors, and your telecom carrier all have account managers. You should have someone too. This practice reviews contracts and SLAs, holds vendors to their commitments, right-sizes licensing, and consolidates overlapping tools.
Mount Xion sells judgment, never products: no reseller commissions, no partner quotas, no kickbacks. Recommendations are only ever about what serves your organization. In one recent year, this discipline surfaced more than $15,000 in recurring annual savings and caught billing anomalies the vendors themselves had missed.
Best for
- An MSP relationship that feels unaccountable
- Renewals that grow every year without explanation
- License audits and overlapping tools
- An RFP you want run honestly
IT Strategy & Board Reporting
Technology decisions your leadership can defend.
Roadmaps, budgets, and governance policies written for executive approval, translating technical risk into decisions leadership can act on. This is the discipline that ran a $1B+ foundation's technology function, applied to your organization.
Deliverables are always board-legible: a technology roadmap tied to your strategic plan, a defensible budget, and governance policies auditors recognize.
Best for
- A strategic plan with no technology chapter
- Budget season without a technology budget
- Governance and policy gaps flagged by an audit
- Board packets that need a technology voice