Huntersville, NC · Charlotte metro · Mecklenburg County
A part-time CIO for Huntersville, NC firms.
Lake Norman offices and contractors selling into Charlotte, with real systems to run and no one whose job is IT.
Typical setup for this market. Not a client count.
The market
What Huntersville looks like from here.
Huntersville and the north Mecklenburg lake towns hold professional offices, contractors, and services firms that sell into Charlotte. Most are too small for an IT department and too dependent on their systems to run without one. Your office manager is the IT department. They are also the person who found the AI tool everyone now uses, and no one has asked whether client data belongs in it.
A Huntersville firm usually runs Microsoft 365, a sales or estimating tool, accounting software, and reporting that ends up in a spreadsheet. This is exactly the size of company the review is built for. We write the AI rules, count the tools already in use, and tell you what to fix first. If a dashboard is worth building, it runs in your own Microsoft cloud account. If it is not, you keep the written plan and owe us nothing more.
What we would expect to find here. Lake Norman offices and contractors sell into Charlotte without an IT department. Advisory first, and delivery only if the review earns it.
Huntersville 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 Huntersville
Who we work with here.
Start here
- AI Use Policy — Advisory review
- vCIO Solutions — Advisory · monthly agreement
- Base dashboard deployment — Deployment
Where we work
Around Huntersville and across NC.
Questions
Questions about working with us from Huntersville
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.
We are too small for an IT department. Is this for us?
Yes, this is for you. Small firms with real systems, an IT firm on a support contract, and no owner for technology decisions are exactly the size Third Shift is built for. Advisory can come before any delivery work, and the review is priced before it starts.
Start here
The first step is the same in every location.
Advisory first, in Huntersville as everywhere else: a written assessment you own.