Your IT is either enabling growth—
or quietly destroying it.
Discern1 delivers senior IT leadership to growing businesses and healthcare organizations that need clarity, accountability, and results. No jargon. No spin. Just execution.
Senior IT leadership, exactly when you need it.
Fractional CIO Services
Strategic IT roadmapping, vendor governance, team leadership, and board-level communication — without the full-time cost or commitment. Think and act like an owner.
Fractional PMO Leadership
Projects that finish on time and on budget. Not because we’re optimistic — because we govern. Structured program management that gives leadership real visibility.
Every client walks in with a different fear.
We solve all of them.
Growing Small Businesses
“IT is holding us back and I don’t know what I don’t know.”
→Clarity, roadmap, and senior IT leadership from day one.
Healthcare Organizations
“Clinical systems and compliance are existential risks.”
→27 years of healthcare IT expertise. HIPAA fluency. No learning curve.
CEOs Scaling Fast
“We’re growing and IT keeps becoming the bottleneck.”
→Strategic IT roadmap and fractional CIO leadership that scales with you.
CFOs & Finance Leaders
“IT is our biggest cost center and I can’t tell if we’re getting value.”
→Vendor governance and spend accountability built into every engagement.
Organizations in Transition
“We’re going through major change and nobody owns IT leadership.”
→Senior IT leadership through your most critical inflection points.
Companies with Stalled Projects
“We’ve missed deadlines and gone over budget too many times.”
→PMO governance that turns project promises into delivered results.
Since the moment a business relies on technology, hidden IT risk begins to accumulate.
Most organizations discover it at the worst possible moment.
That is until Discern1.
We don't just deliver work. We earn trust.
Discern1 was founded on a simple conviction: too many businesses have been burned by IT that overpromised and underdelivered. We exist to change that—through straight talk, deep experience, and genuine ownership of outcomes.
“Technology leadership that transforms chaos into confidence—so your team can focus on what they're actually there to do.”
Mike Burger · Founder, Discern1 LLC · 27 years healthcare IT leadership
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Technology should be your
competitive advantage.
Let's have a direct conversation about where your IT stands today—and what it would take to make it work for you instead of against you.