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IT Budget Season Series Part II: Three Places Your 2027 AI Budget Needs to Go

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Most IT budgets are still built the same way: take last year’s number, add a little, and hope nothing breaks. That doesn’t hold up anymore. Cybersecurity risk is rising, hardware prices have climbed sharply, and AI is now a real, growing line item every business needs to plan for.

In this session, CMIT Solutions’ very own Mike Minkler will walk through what a complete 2027 IT budget actually needs to include, and where businesses most often get it wrong.

We’ll walk through the core pieces of a complete IT budget, including cybersecurity, hardware, and AI, and look at where the costs are shifting most heading into 2027.

What you’ll walk away with:

A practical framework for building a complete 2027 IT budget
What to include for cybersecurity, hardware, and AI, and how to plan for each
Why hardware costs are rising and what that means for your replacement timeline
The financial trade-offs between in-house, outsourced, and co-managed IT
A preview of what’s coming in November’s deeper dive into AI budgeting specifically

Register now to build a 2027 budget that covers everything your business actually needs.

Register today and join us!

Webinar Host

Stuart Hentschel

Director of Service Delivery, CMIT Solutions

As Director of Service Delivery for CMIT Solutions, Stuart is responsible for managing our strategic partner relationships and providing guidance and training to our Franchisees for all our operations and service offerings.

Stuart has owned and operated small businesses in Austin, Texas, since 1989. After graduating from Oklahoma State University, he has operated businesses ranging from restaurants to professional services.

For close to 12 years, he has worked in many facets of the CMIT organization and supported the Franchise system from financial management, systems integrations, and service delivery implementations. His experience with our hundreds of CMIT owners and technicians, our MSP offerings, and the ever-expanding cybersecurity landscape has made him a valuable asset for CMIT.

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Expert Speaker

Len DiCostanzo

Owner/CEO, MSP Toolkit

Len DiCostanzo has spent decades working at the intersection of technology and business – first as a business owner himself, then as a senior executive helping thousands of companies use technology to grow, compete, and operate more efficiently.

As the founder and CEO of a technology consulting firm, Len worked directly with small and mid-sized businesses to implement the systems and infrastructure they needed to run their operations day to day. He saw firsthand how quickly the gap between what technology promises and what businesses actually experience can become costly.

Today, through his advisory firm MSP Toolkit, Len works with a network of managed service providers – including CMIT Solutions – to help business clients navigate the AI era with clarity and confidence. His focus is on two things that matter most to business owners right now: getting AI tools under control before they create risk, and turning the manual, repetitive work that slows every business down into automated processes that free up people and cut costs.

Len brings a no-hype, business-first perspective to AI. He is not here to talk about what AI might do someday. He works with businesses already dealing with the reality of employees using AI tools without oversight, processes that could be automated but have not been, and the growing gap between companies that are managing AI intentionally and those that are not.

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