Boone, NC · Western mountains · Watauga County
A part-time CIO for Boone, NC firms.
A mountain town of tourism, construction, and education, where the same few people run the front desk, the books, and the technology.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Boone looks like from here.
Boone's economy is tourism and hospitality, higher education, construction, and healthcare, all of it shaped by the seasons. Teams here are small and most people cover several roles. The person taking bookings in October is closing the books in November. So the AI tools in use are the personal ones people brought with them, and the rules about what goes into them have never been written down.
A Boone business usually runs Microsoft 365, a booking or property system, an estimating or project tool, and accounting that reports by export. We write your AI rule to be read in a minute by whoever is on shift, because that is who will meet it. Then we connect the booking, project, and accounting systems so the owner can see the season in one place, in a dashboard they own. Boone sits in Watauga County, and seasonal employers across the Western mountains write their rules for whoever is on shift.
What we would expect to find here. Seasonal work and small teams mean whoever is on shift is the one following the rule. We write it to be read in a minute.
Boone 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.
The IT director left mid-project, but the project continued.
Regional construction firm · ~180 staff
Industries in Boone
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- vCIO Solutions — Advisory · monthly agreement
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Questions
Questions about working with us from Boone
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.
Our team is seasonal. How much training does the policy need?
A seasonal team needs very little training, by design. Each role gets a one-page version of the AI Use Policy, there is one named person to ask, and controls inside your systems do the enforcing. Seasonal hires get the same page as everyone else, and it takes a minute to read.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Boone as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.