[AD2] Tech
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a digital partner·fractional CTO & vCISO firm

Enterprise IT,
SMB budget.

ad2 Tech is the digital partner that takes your business from where it is today to where it wants to be. Fractional CTO and vCISO leadership, an assessment framework called AEGIS, and 40+ years of enterprise judgment — for businesses that were never going to be a good fit for an MSP.

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40+ yrsCombined IT experience
<15 minFirst response target
72 hrsFull assessment turnaround
1 feeFlat monthly retainer
The shift

From an IT vendor you call,
to a partner who runs it.

Most SMBs inherit their IT one ticket at a time. We replace that with an enterprise operating model — the one the Fortune 500 takes for granted — sized for a business with twelve people or twelve hundred.

Where you are

The SMB IT treadmill.

  • IT is a cost center, not a lever.
  • You fight tickets, not plans.
  • Vendors pitch you, no one owns the outcome.
  • You suspect spend is bloated — no one can prove it.
  • Security is "we think we’re fine".
Where we take you

A working digital operating model.

  • Technology is a growth multiplier with a clear ROI line.
  • A written 12-month roadmap. Ranked by impact, priced by line item.
  • One phone number. Founder-led. Answers to you — not vendors.
  • Quarterly spend review against outcomes. Consolidation by default.
  • A measurable posture score. The fix attached to every finding.
Enterprise platforms we build on
AEGISBy ad2 Tech
The delivery system

How the partnership actually shows up.

AEGIS is the platform we run your engagement through. It watches your cloud, identity, endpoints, and network continuously — and hands you (and us) one ranked list of what matters, in plain language, with the fix attached.

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Who you hire

Two partners.
Both of them do the work.

No account manager. No junior associate translating between you and a senior engineer. The people who ran the assessment are the people who signed the SOW — and the people who'll be on the Zoom when you have a question about it.

Anthony Darlak
Founding partner · infrastructure, security, delivery

Anthony Darlak

Infrastructure and security engineer. Owns the client relationship, the delivery work, and the AEGIS skill files. Twenty years across the enterprise stack — VMware, networking, servers, identity, security architecture — the full picture SMBs inherit without knowing.

  • FocusInfrastructure · Security · Delivery
  • StackServers · Networking · Identity · Architecture
  • BasedLos Angeles, CA
Aaron Dockery
Founding partner · software, data, integration

Aaron Dockery

Data and software. Owns the AEGIS data architecture — the sanitization pipeline, the findings schema, the report generator. Twenty-plus years on large-scale data structures across education and telecommunications.

  • FocusData · Integration · Reports
  • StackDatabases · Engineering · Reporting
  • BasedColorado, US

·  Partnership‑scale on purpose. We do not intend to be a 40‑person firm.

Engagement models

Three ways to get enterprise thinking in your business.

Start with an assessment. Stay for the operating model. Most clients begin with AEGIS, then move into a monthly fractional executive retainer.

AEGIS playbook · live demo loop

Fractional vCISO

Security leadership at a fraction of a full-time hire. We own your posture — policy, posture, incident response — and represent you in vendor and compliance conversations.

Typical engagement8–20 hrs / mo

Fractional vCTO

Technology strategy, architecture, and vendor selection. We translate business plans into systems, and systems into budgets your CFO can defend.

Typical engagement12–30 hrs / mo

Project AEGIS Assessment

A 72-hour, fixed-fee posture and IT audit. Covers cloud, identity, endpoints, spend, and risk — delivered as a ranked plan, not a PDF to shelve.

Turnaround72 hrs
  • Are you a managed service provider (MSP)?
    No. We don’t run your help desk, dispatch field techs, or sell antivirus subscriptions. We are the executive layer SMBs typically can’t afford full-time — strategy, security posture, vendor accountability, a clear technology roadmap. If you need an MSP, we’ll help you pick the right one.
  • How is this different from hiring a full-time CTO or CISO?
    Same caliber of decision-making, fractional cost. You get partner-level access without funding a $300k+ FTE, and the framework outlives any single engagement. Most clients run AEGIS for two–3 years and only hire full-time once they’re north of ~150 people.
  • What size business is ad2 Tech for?
    Roughly 15 to 1,500 employees. The lower bound is where executive technology leadership starts to make a measurable difference. Above 1,500 you’re usually better served by a full-time team — we’ll tell you when you’ve outgrown us.
  • Is Project AEGIS software we buy?
    No. AEGIS is the platform we run engagements through — it is how we deliver work. You don’t license it, install it, or maintain it. You hire the partnership and AEGIS comes with.
  • Are you SOC 2 or ISO certified?
    No. We are a two-partner firm by design and don’t carry these certifications today. If your contract requires them, we’ll point you at firms that do. We name this on the homepage because the inverse — implying we have something we don’t — isn’t how we work.
  • What does a flat monthly fee actually cover?
    Named hours of partner time, the AEGIS continuous-monitoring platform, monthly posture deltas, quarterly roadmap reviews, vendor advocacy on your side of the table, and incident triage coordination. Spelled out in the SOW. No scope creep, no surprise invoices.
Get started

72 hours to your first
clear picture.

Drop your email. We’ll send a short intake, run AEGIS, and come back with a ranked plan — no slides, no sales theater.