Part-time CIO work across the Carolinas.

Third Shift Group LLC is based in North Carolina and works with firms across North and South Carolina. Most of the work runs remotely, against your Microsoft cloud account and your systems. Policy meetings and leadership sessions can be on site where that helps. See where we work for the regions and towns we cover.

No, Third Shift does not have an office in your city. There is one team, based in North Carolina, and the towns we list are service areas rather than offices. Nothing about the work needs a local branch. What we read is your environment and your systems, and the reporting lands in the client portal wherever your firm sits.

Third Shift works with small and mid-sized companies. That means big enough to run real systems such as accounting, sales tracking, or practice management, and not big enough to have a full-time CIO. The first step is a conversation, then either a part-time CIO retainer or a review with a fixed scope and a quoted price. Everything after the review is priced from what it finds.

Third Shift is a technology management firm. We serve as the part-time CIO for a small number of companies, owning the plan, the vendors, the spend, and the recommendations. We specialize in AI (the rules, the tools already running, and automation built into what you own), technology spend you can see monthly, and Microsoft 365 tenant work. If you have no help desk or no MSP, we find that firm and stay on the process. We do not run tickets, devices, or day-to-day administration. People still search for “AI management company”; that is a specialty, not the name of the firm.