Operational Intelligence Redefined

The Signals Are There.
Is Anyone Acting
on Them?

For $5M–$150M industrial manufacturers and managed services companies: autonomous AI systems that detect equipment failures, operational anomalies, and service disruptions in real time — resolving them before they hit the floor.

Free 30-min call · No pitch · No commitment required

Agentic Operational Intelligence™
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Detect

High-volume signal ingestion & anomaly detection at scale

02

Investigate

Autonomous agent cross-references context & history

03

Act

Corrective action without human review queues

Free · No Login Required

Tech Debt Evaluation

What costly signals is your tech debt sending — and is anyone acting on them? Answer a few questions and get a directional cost estimate across architecture, staffing, cloud, and operations.

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Free · Operational Intelligence Readiness

OI Readiness Scorecard

12 questions. 5 dimensions. Find out exactly where your industrial operations sit on the AI readiness curve — from reactive alerting to autonomous resolution.

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Free · Operations Focus

Ops Workflow Analyzer

Describe your incident management, trouble ticket, or issue-tracking workflow. An AI agent scores it for automation potential and returns a prioritized action plan.

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Your operations are generating signals. Nobody's acting on them.

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Manual review queues drowning your team

Equipment alerts, maintenance flags, and operational exceptions pile up faster than humans can process them — costing uptime and morale.

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Alert fatigue killing response quality

300+ daily alerts, 80% false positives. Teams have learned to ignore the noise — which means missing the signal that matters.

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Reactive maintenance eating profitability

You find out about equipment failures when the equipment fails. Every unplanned outage costs multiples of what prevention would have.

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AI initiatives stalling without leadership

The tools exist. The budget was approved. But without a leader who's built agentic systems, pilots never reach production.

Engagements built around outcomes, not hours

Every engagement starts with a structured assessment so you know exactly what you're investing in before any retainer begins.

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Industrial IoT

Predictive Operations & IoT Intelligence

Move from reactive maintenance and alert fatigue to AI-powered operational intelligence that predicts and prevents failures before they occur.

  • IoT platform modernization roadmap
  • Predictive maintenance agent design
  • Real-time telemetry & anomaly detection
  • Edge-to-cloud data pipeline architecture
  • Managed services AI capability build
Retainer from $10K/mo · embedded or remote
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AI Transformation

AI Transformation & Modernization

For SaaS and B2B companies carrying legacy debt and losing ground to AI-native competitors — a clear roadmap from where you are to where you need to be.

  • Technology & AI readiness assessment
  • Legacy modernization strategy
  • Agentic workflow automation
  • Engineering org upskilling programs
  • AI vendor selection & governance
Retainer from $10K/mo · 3-month minimum
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For PE Firms

Technical Due Diligence

Pre-acquisition technology assessments for PE firms with IoT or industrial portfolio companies. Fast, structured, and calibrated to investment decisions.

  • Technology stack quality assessment
  • Scalability & architecture risk review
  • Security posture & compliance audit
  • Engineering team capability evaluation
  • AI/ML maturity scoring
$5K–$15K · 1–2 week fixed project
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WORKSHOP · 2–4 DAYS ON-SITE OR REMOTE

Strategic Technology & AI Roadmap Workshop

A structured 2–4 day working session that takes your leadership team from where you are today to a clear, prioritized 3–5 year technology and AI roadmap — using Amazon's Working Backwards methodology adapted for mid-market operators.

  • Working Backwards from business outcomes, not technology
  • Current-state technology and AI maturity assessment
  • 3–5 year roadmap with sequenced initiatives and owners
  • AI adoption strategy with build/buy/partner decisions
  • 90-day quick wins identified and assigned
  • Executive-ready narrative and board-level presentation
$8,500–$15,000 · 2–4 days · includes pre-work and deliverables
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Ongoing CTO

Fractional CTO Retainer

Ongoing executive technology leadership — strategy, team oversight, AI implementation, vendor management, and board-level communication.

  • Technology strategy & quarterly roadmap
  • Engineering team leadership & mentoring
  • Vendor & partner management
  • Board and investor communication
  • Hiring and org design advisory
$10K–$15K/month · 10–20 hrs/week
Entry Point

Operational Intelligence Assessment

A structured 3-week diagnostic that maps your current state, identifies the highest-value AI opportunities, and delivers a prioritized implementation roadmap.

  • 5-domain maturity scoring framework
  • Technology architecture review
  • Security & compliance gap analysis
  • AI readiness benchmarking
  • 90-day quick wins identification
$3,500–$5,000 · 3-week fixed engagement

Not sure where to start? Begin with a diagnostic.

Most engagements start with a 3-week Operational Intelligence Assessment — a low-risk entry point with a clear deliverable and defined next steps.

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From first call to first results in 60 days

A structured process designed to minimize your time investment while maximizing what gets learned and delivered quickly.

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Week 1

Discovery Call

30 minutes to understand your context, primary pain points, and whether there's a fit worth exploring.

2
Weeks 1–3

Assessment

Operational Intelligence Assessment across 5 domains. Findings presented with a prioritized roadmap and quick wins.

3
Weeks 4–12

Implementation

Focused retainer executing the highest-value roadmap items with monthly progress reviews with leadership.

4
Ongoing

Scale & Sustain

Ongoing fractional CTO partnership or transition to internal ownership — with documentation, training, and handoff support.

Outcomes that show up in the business

Drawn from prior engagements at Amazon, Boeing, and Dedicated Computing — the same patterns applied to your scale.

AWS IoT Analytics · Industrial Platform

Managed IoT Services Platform

Owned and led delivery of AWS IoT Analytics — low-latency, highly available managed services continuously monitoring equipment and triggering automated responses.

5-9s
Availability
10x
Team scale built
Boeing / Jeppesen Foreflight · Modernization

Legacy Modernization & AI Automation

Led architecture reviews and modernization strategy for 40+ legacy on-premise applications, plus agentic AI automation in complex aviation data processing workflows.

95%
Compliance (from 30%)
85%
CVE reduction in 6mo
Dedicated Computing · PE-backed CTO

IoT Strategy & Managed Services Build

Defined IoT managed services strategy, built the software org from scratch, and drove $7M EMEA expansion for a PE-backed hardware company.

$7M
EMEA revenue
85%+
On-time delivery (from <50%)

Built for companies where operations are the business

Best suited for companies where the core value proposition depends on operational reliability, transaction integrity, or connected systems at scale.

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Industrial Manufacturers & MSPs

$25M–$150M manufacturers and managed services providers with connected equipment dealing with alert fatigue and first-generation IoT hitting its limits.

Predictive MaintenanceIoT ModernizationField Service Ops
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B2B SaaS & Platform Companies

$10M–$50M ARR SaaS companies carrying legacy technical debt, losing engineering velocity to maintenance, and needing technology leadership to navigate AI transformation.

ModernizationAI StrategyEngineering Ops
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PE Firms with IoT or Industrial Portfolio Companies

Private equity firms requiring pre-acquisition technical due diligence or post-acquisition technology leadership. The practice understands both the technology and the EBITDA lens — with direct experience inside PE-backed companies.

Technical Due DiligencePost-Acquisition IntegrationValue CreationEBITDA Impact

Three ways to work together

Every engagement starts with a conversation. Most begin with an assessment.

Entry Point

Operational Intelligence Assessment

$3,500–$5,000
3-week fixed engagement
  • 5-domain technology assessment
  • Security & compliance gap review
  • AI readiness scoring
  • Prioritized roadmap deliverable
  • Executive presentation of findings
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Most Popular

Fractional CTO Retainer

$10K–$15K/mo
3-month minimum · typically 12–18 months
  • 10–20 hours per week dedicated
  • Technology strategy & roadmap ownership
  • Engineering team leadership
  • Monthly executive reporting
  • Agentic AI implementation guidance
  • Vendor & partner management
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Investors & Acquirers

Technical Due Diligence

$5K–$15K
1–2 week project engagement
  • Pre-acquisition tech stack review
  • Architecture & scalability risk
  • Security & compliance posture
  • Team capability evaluation
  • Investment-grade findings report
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Agentic Technology Partners

Stragentech is a specialized fractional CTO practice building autonomous operational intelligence systems for industrial manufacturers, managed services providers, and B2B SaaS companies. The practice draws on 25+ years of production experience at Boeing, AWS IoT, and Dedicated Computing — applied to the scale and urgency of growing businesses.

Work spans two core domains: industrial IoT intelligence and AI-led modernization for operations-heavy businesses. Every engagement is structured around measurable outcomes — uptime gained, cost eliminated, and manual processes retired.

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Seattle, WA · Available remote nationwide
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Thinking on operations, AI, and scale

Practical frameworks for CEOs and operators navigating AI transformation without a full-time technology leader.

Discover What's Possible in 60 Days.

Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute discovery call. No pitch, no pressure — just a conversation to see if there's a fit worth exploring.

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Email
info@stragentech.com
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Apps
apps.stragentech.com
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Location
Seattle, WA · Available Remote
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