The 5 F's.
A ladder, not a menu.
Five layers of capability. Each one builds on the one below. You enter where you need to — and move up as the business grows. This is how Corvell is built, priced, and measured.
Foundation
Your environment runs, and it runs securely.
Identity, access, endpoint security, network, backup and recovery, monitoring, and a modern help desk — built and measured to documented standards most mid-market companies have never seen.
What we deliver
- Identity and access management (MFA, SSO, lifecycle)
- Endpoint hardening and patch compliance
- Network segmentation and perimeter security
- Backup, recovery, and tested business continuity
- 24×7 monitoring and a modern help desk
- Documented standards and compliance evidence
What the buyer sees
- Measurable compliance across every endpoint
- Backups that are tested, not just configured
- An incident response runbook the team has rehearsed
- A help desk experience the business actually likes
Flow
Your systems talk to each other.
Applications integrated across CRM, ERP, finance, HR, and line-of-business tools. Workflow automation, API management, and the elimination of the swivel-chair work your team has quietly normalized.
What we deliver
- Application integration across core business systems
- API management and integration architecture
- Workflow automation and orchestration
- Master source-of-record decisions
- Elimination of manual re-entry and reconciliation
- Integration runbooks and monitoring
What the buyer sees
- Orders, customers, and employees flow without re-keying
- Finance doesn't close the month in Excel
- New systems integrate in weeks, not quarters
- The ops team spends time on judgment, not data entry
Fidelity
Your data is clean, trusted, and owned.
Data governance, master data management, source-of-truth decisions, cleanup of duplicate and orphaned records, and ongoing data-quality monitoring — the prerequisite for reporting, automation, and AI.
What we deliver
- Master data management (customers, products, employees)
- Data governance framework and stewardship
- Source-of-truth decisions and reconciliation
- Duplicate, orphan, and exception cleanup
- Ongoing data quality monitoring and scorecards
- The data foundation for reporting and AI
What the buyer sees
- When two reports disagree, the team knows which one is right
- Leadership makes calls on authoritative, not directional, data
- AI and analytics investments actually return value
- Customer, product, and employee records reconcile across systems
Feedback
You see your business, not just your IT.
Operational KPIs, executive dashboards, a monthly operating review delivered by Corvell, reporting cadence, and variance analysis — the operating rhythm of a much larger company, right-sized for yours.
What we deliver
- Operational KPI definition and instrumentation
- Executive and functional dashboards
- A Corvell-led monthly operating review
- Reporting cadence and variance analysis
- Board-ready and lender-ready reporting
- The operating rhythm of a larger company
What the buyer sees
- The CEO stops flying blind between quarterly reports
- Board and investors get the reporting they've been asking for
- Leadership decisions are grounded in shared definitions
- Every function operates against the same scorecard
Forward
Fractional CIO and COO leadership — not a vendor relationship.
Fractional CIO and COO services. Technology and operations roadmap, annual operating plan, M&A integration, and capacity planning — an operating partner in your leadership meetings, accountable for outcomes.
What we deliver
- Fractional CIO and COO leadership
- Three-year technology and operations roadmap
- Annual operating plan and capacity model
- M&A and integration leadership
- Capital planning and technology investment cases
- Named leader accountable to your leadership team
What the buyer sees
- A named operating partner at your leadership table
- Major decisions made from a plan, not reactively
- Technology and operations moving in the same direction
- Succession and growth capacity visible on a roadmap
Every client enters at a layer. Which one are you?
Most prospects signal their entry layer within the first five minutes. These are the tells we listen for — and the signs that say you're ready for a conversation with us.
Enter here when…
- Cyber-insurance renewal or premium spike
- Breach, near-miss, or audit finding in the last 12 months
- Help desk complaints are the loudest signal
- Current MSP can't produce compliance evidence on request
Enter here when…
- Teams re-enter data across systems as a matter of routine
- Recent acquisition, ERP migration, or CRM change is half-finished
- Finance closes the month with spreadsheet gymnastics
- The buyer's biggest pain is speed of operations, not stability
Enter here when…
- A report-versus-report disagreement has become org folklore
- Board or owner pressure to 'use AI' with no data strategy
- Leadership makes decisions on directional numbers
- Data cleanup was done once in the past and never repeated
Enter here when…
- CEO or owner feels they're flying blind between quarters
- An open or fractional COO seat
- Board or investor pressure for more operational reporting
- IT reports uptime; the business has no operating dashboard
Enter here when…
- CEO or owner with no CIO/COO bench and no plan to hire one
- Preparing for growth, acquisition, capital event, or succession
- Current MSP is also the strategic advisor (conflict of interest)
- Buyer explicitly says: 'we don't have anyone to ask'
Not sure which layer you're on?
A 30-minute conversation with one of our founders. You walk the 5 F's with us. We tell you which layer you're missing — and what the next one looks like. No pitch, no pressure, no proposal until we agree on a layer.