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ABOUT US

Business experience. Built into everything we do.

CIO Solutions brings together senior technology leadership and hands-on delivery. We build websites, apps and connected systems with a clear view of the business behind them.

RICHARD SANDERSON / CEO

I’m Richard Sanderson.

I’m the CEO of CIO Solutions and a fractional CIO.

I work with growing SMEs on the technology decisions that actually move the business: AI deployment, tech stack strategy, data management, the lot.

I have led tech for different industrial groups, supporting multiple brands across 3 continents. I’ve spent the last decade rebuilding tech stacks and aggressively pulling costs out of the business, and the last couple of years I’ve focused on getting agentic systems live.

My approach is simple: fewer clients, deeper relationships, and real outcomes—not quiet retainers that run for years without changing a thing.

Richard Sanderson, CEO of CIO Solutions
RICHARD SANDERSON / CEO, CIO SOLUTIONS

THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE WORK

Technology that had to earn its place.

I co-founded a B2B group and helped scale it from nothing to 250 people across the US, Canada, the UK, Belgium and Taiwan — and I built most of its technology myself along the way.

Everything I now consult on is something I’ve actually done under commercial pressure, in my own business, with my own money at stake.

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    It started with the websites.

    I started with the websites. That led into SEO, and then into doing the same for the other companies we set up along the way — which is where the technical SEO and AIO work I offer today comes from. To run the growing operation I built an intranet and a suite of business-development tools that, over time, became an ad-hoc ERP holding the company together.

  2. 02

    Then came the systems behind them.

    When we began acquiring other companies, that homegrown system hit its limits. I moved the whole group onto Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central — and the hard part wasn’t the software, it was getting multiple acquired businesses, each with their own way of working, onto one platform without stalling the operation. That’s the experience behind the fractional CIO and ERP work.

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    And now, AI in live operations.

    Most recently I’ve kept building custom tooling while deploying AI into live operations — agentic systems working alongside real teams and real customers, not pilots. That’s the work behind the AI consulting.

HOW WE WORK

Calm diagnosis. Clear decisions.
Hands-on delivery.

Start with the business.

Systems, contracts, costs, ownership, risk. Most technology problems make more sense once the map is honest.

Make the choices clear.

Understand the options, the cost of waiting and the decision we would make if we were accountable for the result.

Stay close to delivery.

Strategy is only useful if it changes the work. We lead vendors, unblock teams and keep the roadmap tied to business outcomes.

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