Program · for the CIO, CTO, and CISO

Decision Counsel.

Private advisory on a specific call: what to do, why, and when, applied to your situation, your constraints, and your timeline. Not a framework off a shelf, a judgment for your room.

Scoped to your situation · Founding Client terms apply
The problem

You have a hard call and no one without a stake in it.

Your vendors want you to buy. Your team is close to it. The analyst subscriptions give you frameworks, not a judgment for your specific situation.

What you need is the outside read of someone who has made this call before, applied to your constraints and your timeline, with no product to sell you.

What's included

What you get.

  • The call, applied. What to do, why, and when, for your situation, not a generic best practice.
  • Your constraints, honored. Advice that fits your team, your budget, and your timeline, not an ideal world.
  • The reasoning. The why underneath the recommendation, so you can defend it and own it.
  • A judgment, not a deck. An outside read for your room, from someone who has stood where you are standing.
How it works

Frame. Read. Recommend.

Frame
Your actual decision

We start from the specific call and the constraints around it.

Read
From experience

The judgment of someone who has made this kind of call before, from inside the seat.

Recommend
What to do and when

A clear recommendation you can act on and defend.

What it's worth

Judgment, not infinite knowledge.

AI can hand you every option. What it cannot give you is the judgment of which one matters for your situation. That judgment is the whole of this.

A clear decision

What to do and when, applied to your constraints.

Defensible reasoning

The why, so you can stand behind it with your board.

No vendor's hand

An outside read with no product to sell you.

Sized to the moment

Advisory scaled to the decision, not to an org chart.

Why Phronia

Made this call before.

Howard has been the CIO, CTO, and CISO, more than once, across many companies and industries. The rare breadth is exactly what a hard, specific decision needs.

Every agency will wordsmith your message. We are the buyer you are trying to reach. Howard Holton has been the CIO, the CTO, and the CISO, more than once, across many companies, sizes, and industries. This is not one analyst's opinion. It is the read of the person who signs the check.

Get started

Sized to the decision.

Decision Counsel is scoped to the call in front of you, from a single session to ongoing access as the decision unfolds.

Founding Client: start your first engagement by July 31 and take 40% off, as one of a small charter group, in exchange for becoming a reference.