Services
Four capabilities. One CIO seat. One number.
Helix Stax is a full-stack IT consulting firm: software and automation, networking and infrastructure, AI, and compliance and cybersecurity. CIO services is the senior-advisory tier that spans all four. Every engagement scores on the CTGA framework, 100 to 900. The Helix Pulse is free, sixty minutes, no pitch deck.
Capabilities
The four delivery lines.
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Software & Automation
We rip out the integrations pretending to work and wire up the one your team uses.
Workflow, integration, and business-process automation. We rip out the integrations pretending to work and design the rollout your team will use. n8n, Zapier, Make, Power Automate. Operations Advisory lives here as a named engagement.
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Networking & Infrastructure
Network, firewall, mesh, and the servers nobody patched. Vendor-agnostic, never a reseller.
Network design, segmentation, firewall, mesh, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, and the on-prem servers, virtualization, and hybrid cloud underneath. Vendor-agnostic; we never resell hardware. Our own production runs NetBird, K3s, and Proxmox.
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AI
AI that earns its keep, not the vendor pitch. We score where it fits, then build it.
AI that earns its keep, not the vendor pitch. Strategy, LLM selection, self-hosted AI, RAG, agents, Copilot rollout. We run AI in production for our own back office. Digital Strategy folds in here as the IT-roadmap engagement.
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Compliance & Cybersecurity
CMMC, NIST, HIPAA, the cyber-insurance questionnaire. We score, harden, and ride it until the assessor signs.
CMMC Level 2 readiness, NIST 800-171, HIPAA, the cyber-insurance questionnaire, EDR selection, IR runbooks. We score the Controls pillar, harden, and ride the remediation until the assessor signs. CMMC Readiness and IT Audit are named engagements here. We are not a SOC.
Cross-cutting engagement tier
CIO Services
The senior IT brain on a retainer. We sit in the room when you make the call.
CIO services is not a fifth capability. It is the seat that runs all four. The senior IT brain who owns the roadmap, coordinates your MSP and MSSP, sits in on vendor pitches, and re-scores your CTGA every quarter. Engage a single capability on its own, or engage the CIO tier to run the whole function.
Phase 2 roadmap
Coming Q2 2026
Managed AI governance · Per-city compliance desks · Industry playbooks
Not yet bookable. Sized for Q2 2026 once the launch slate is steady.
You can have the number by Friday.
The Pulse is free, sixty minutes, and the only thing you walk out with is your CTGA score and the three gaps that cost you the most.