Apex, NC · Research Triangle · Wake County
A part-time CIO for Apex, NC firms.
Western Wake software and life-sciences firms already measured against a quality system, now being asked to show a rule for AI too.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Apex looks like from here.
Apex holds software companies, life-sciences suppliers, and professional services firms on the western Wake edge, with much of the workforce commuting into RTP and Raleigh. If you supply a life-sciences customer, you already answer to a quality system and a customer audit. The next audit will have a question about AI in it. Your team is already using assistants to draft documents that fall under that quality system, and nothing says whether that is allowed.
An Apex firm typically runs Microsoft 365, a sales system, project and time tracking, and finance reporting produced by export. We write the AI rule to the standard you are already measured against, so there is one set of rules and not two. Then we connect the sales, project, and finance systems into a dashboard in your own Microsoft cloud account. The numbers your customers and your board ask for come from one place.
What we would expect to find here. Life-sciences suppliers and software firms answer to quality systems and customer audits. We design the AI rule to the standard you are already measured against.
Apex is a service area, not an office. One team, based in North Carolina, works in your own systems.
Where this has run
A profile close to this setup.
They asked for automation and needed a foundation first.
Professional services firm · ~30 staff
Industries in Apex
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- Applications assessment — Assessment
Where we work
Around Apex and across NC.
Questions
Questions about working with us from Apex
Where are you based and do you work remotely?
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.
Do you support quality-system documentation requirements?
Yes, Third Shift supports quality system documentation requirements. We document the review, the AI Use Policy, and the reports the same way every time. And we work to the standard your customer audits you against, not a new one of our own, so an auditor finds what they expect.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Apex as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.