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IT Strategy & Advisory
Technology direction, roadmap planning, budgeting guidance, risk review, and decision support for leadership. The CIO function, right-sized for your firm.
Executive IT Strategy · Vendor Management · Advisory
One point of accountability for all of it.
Kern ENT gives growing firms an executive-level technology function without building one in-house — strategy, security leadership, engineering, and vendor management, coordinated under a single agreement.
The problem we solve
Your firm runs on technology. Nobody owns it.
Too small for a CIO
Most growing firms can't justify a full executive technology team — but the decisions still have to get made, and made well.
Too many vendors
Software, licensing, security tools, and support providers each bring contracts, renewals, and handoffs when something breaks.
Too much at stake
Security posture, compliance expectations, and client trust need dedicated ownership, even when your team is already stretched.
The Kern ENT model
We manage the strategy, the specialists, and the vendors — you get one relationship, one agreement, and one team accountable for outcomes.
A managed bench of specialists
Security leadership, engineering, and data expertise — sourced, vetted, and directed by Kern ENT so you never manage contractors yourself.
Everything under one schedule
Services are defined in clear engagement schedules with scope, deliverables, and reporting — so you know what's covered.
Built for professional firms
Designed for organizations where security, documentation, and reliability are the cost of doing business.
Engagement Schedule
Services
Every engagement is structured around defined scope, named deliverables, and monthly reporting. Services can be combined into a single monthly engagement or scoped individually.
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Managed IT Platform
Continuous monitoring, endpoint protection, patch and update management, network and security operations, and incident response tracking across approved devices, servers, and network equipment.
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Fractional CISO
Security program direction, policy and standards guidance, risk assessment, and executive reporting — without a full-time hire.
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Cyber & IT Engineering
Technical engineering for security hardening, infrastructure work, and escalated support — the implementation muscle behind the strategy.
SCH A.5
Data Consulting
CRM administration, user management, and data support delivered under client-approved scopes, keeping essential systems clean, current, and usable.
SCH A.6
Vendor & Licensing Management
Sourcing, coordination, and ongoing management of software and service vendors — including Microsoft licensing managed against regular usage audits.
SCH B
Project Work
Migrations, implementations, and assessments delivered under individual Statements of Work with clear deliverables, timelines, and pricing agreed before work begins.
Pricing philosophy
Our rates are complete. Sourcing, coordination, management, and oversight are built in — no surprise line items, no unmanaged handoffs.
How We Work
Structured like the agreements we run on.
Clear documents, defined scope, and honest reporting are how trust is built and kept. Every engagement follows the same disciplined path.
§ 1
Understand
We start with your environment, your risks, and your goals — leadership conversations first, technology second.
§ 2
Define
Scope, deliverables, standards, and responsibilities go in writing before work begins. You'll know what's covered, what's out of scope, and what it costs.
§ 3
Deliver
Kern ENT directs a vetted bench of specialists against the agreed scope. You work with one accountable point of contact — we handle coordination.
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Report
Support time is tracked per ticket and summarized monthly. Strategy work is reviewed with leadership on a regular cadence.
Standards
Standards-based, not proprietary.
Published requirements
Device and software baselines follow vendors' published, supported requirements. Supported systems are secure systems.
Client-owned policy
We help you establish technology standards and acceptable-use baselines; your organization adopts and owns them.
Transparent boundaries
Covered support is clearly defined. Anything outside it is tracked, reported, and reviewed with your leadership.
About
Kern ENT
Kern ENT provides executive-level IT strategy, vendor management, and technology advisory services to growing organizations.
Founded and led by Molly Kern, Kern ENT operates on a managed-bench model: we source, vet, and direct specialists in security leadership, engineering, and data expertise. Clients get senior capability with one accountable relationship.
What we believe
Accountability over headcount
You need one party responsible for making technology serve the business.
Write it down
Scope, standards, and expectations in writing protect both sides. Ambiguity is where problems live.
Advice, honestly given
We give candid recommendations, clearly state assumptions, and make no promises we can't keep.
Contact
Start a conversation.
Most engagements begin with a short leadership conversation about your environment and goals. No obligation, no hard sell — just a clear read on whether we're the right fit.
Emailtickets@kernent.com
Main phone(844) 537-6368
Kern ENT · Texas