The CIO for firms that don't want to hire one.
A senior practice that owns your technology and actually runs it. Not a ticket queue.
Most IT shops are still running on 2016.
You know the pattern. Open a ticket. Wait. Get a different junior tech every time. Hear "we don't support that." We built CYSTRA to be the other column.
What owning it means.
Everything your firm runs on, designed for how you work, then operated every day by the people who designed it.
Infrastructure
Network, servers, cloud, endpoints. Built to fit the firm, then kept boring on purpose. Boring is what uptime looks like.
Security
Identity, devices, backups, response. Part of the design from day one, not an add-on line on an invoice.
Microsoft 365
The platform your people live in all day, set up so it stays out of their way and stays yours.
AI
Where it earns a place in your firm, and where it doesn't. We build it into the work you already do, and you own the result.
We don't resell anything.
No license upsell. No hardware margin. No stack you're stuck with because it's the one we happen to sell. We pick what your people enjoy using, put it in, and keep it running.
Two principals. A decade each.
Networks, systems, contracts, and running the work at the management level. When you hire CYSTRA, this is who shows up.
Started CYSTRA in a Charleston living room in 2017. Infrastructure, security, and the contracts behind them.
Networks, systems, and the day-to-day of keeping a firm's technology running well.
Since 2017. Firms collectively worth hundreds of millions.
You won't find their names on this page. That's part of the service.
Tell us what's not working.
One email. A principal reads it and writes back. No form, no sales development rep, no discovery funnel.
hello@cystra.com