Contract
1099 work disguised as W-2. Our consultants are full-time Cynosure employees on engagement with you. Standard rates and terms; volume conversations welcome.
Established 2008Houston, Texas
We build the systems your business runs on.And we send the engineers who keep them running.
Cynosure Technologies is a consulting and staffing firm working with hospital networks, universities, energy operators, and state agencies. Founder-led. U.S.-based. Senior people on every engagement.
01The conversations09
What we hear
The conversations that get us hired.
Most weeks, the first call begins with a version of one of these. We listen, ask a few sharp questions, and tell you within an hour whether we can help.
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“The contractor we lost was the one we couldn't afford to lose.”
Our answer
We place a senior replacement, vetted and W-2 to us, in seven to nine days.
- 02
“The vendor shipped on time. Quality showed up two quarters later.”
Our answer
We come in as either remediation or as the next vendor. We'll be honest about which makes sense.
- 03
“Open requisition for eight months. Nobody we shortlisted lasted round two.”
Our answer
Our average tenure on placed engineers runs longer than the U.S. consulting median. We screen for the long fit.
- 04
“Audit week is fourteen days out and the evidence pack doesn't exist.”
Our answer
We've built evidence packages for HIPAA, SOX, and FedRAMP reviews more times than is healthy. We'll lead it.
02What we do09
What we do
Five practices. One firm. Same people on the call from kickoff to year three.
We organize the consulting work into five practices. They share a bench, share delivery standards, and share the founders' phone numbers. Most engagements draw from two or three at once.
- 01
- Application Development
- Web, mobile, API, integration. Modern stacks where they fit. Boring stacks when boring is the right answer. 02
- Cloud & DevOps
- AWS, Azure, GCP. Landing zones, IaC, FinOps, the unglamorous platform work that quietly funds the next initiative. 03
- Data Engineering & Analytics
- Warehouses, semantic layers, dashboards executives actually open. Tableau and Power BI implementations and rescues. 04
- Cybersecurity & Identity
- Identity governance, MFA rollouts, IAM platform operations on Okta, Entra ID, SailPoint. Built to pass audits. 05
- ERP & Enterprise Apps
- PeopleSoft FSCM and HCM. Workday HCM, Financial Management, and Student. The ERP work the in-house team is too thin to absorb.
AI and automation work is folded into the practice that owns the system being changed, not sold as a separate dance. Managed services pull from every practice.
03Staffing09
Staffing
A talent bench that bills under our name, not yours.
Half our work is staffing. We place senior engineers W-2 to Cynosure on contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire terms. We carry the benefits, the insurance, and the performance accountability. You get a person who shows up on Monday ready to work.
Contract-to-hire
Three or six months of paid evaluation, then convert at a published buyout. The lowest-risk way to hire someone you can't fully assess from a resume.
Direct-hire
Retained or contingent search for senior roles you can't run internally. We charge a flat fee, not a percentage. Replacement guarantee, in writing.
- 9 days
Median time to first shortlist on a senior role
- 4.6 yrs
Average tenure of our W-2 consultants
- Texas + SC
Awarded prime on the DIR ITSAC and SC ITSAC staffing contracts
04Delivery model09
Delivery model
Boring on purpose.
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Discovery
1–2 weeks
We sit with your sponsors. Review the current state. Produce a written assessment with a recommended phased plan and a rough budget. The deliverable is signed by a named consultant, not the firm.
- 02
Engagement
Fixed-scope where it admits, T&M where it doesn't
Same named consultant continues through delivery. Weekly written status. A direct line to the founder for anything that's escalating. No staffing changes without your approval.
- 03
Hypercare
30 days post-go-live
The same delivery team owns production stability for the first month. Knowledge transfer is a deliverable, not a slide.
- 04
Managed support (optional)
Ongoing
Continuing operations at a fixed monthly cost. Scales up or down as your in-house team matures. You can leave with the runbook.
05Where we work09
Where we work
We chose verticals where the cost of a bad system is measured in something other than dollars.
- Healthcare
- EPIC integrations, clinical mobile apps, patient monitoring, HIPAA-grade managed services for hospital networks and academic medical centers.
- Higher Education
- Workday Student deployments, migration off Banner and Colleague, IPEDS reconciliation, fund-accounting reporting. Our flagship Workday vertical.
- Energy
- Upstream and midstream operators. Custom field-data tooling. Offline-first mobile for crews. Leak-detection workflow systems.
- Public Sector
- State and local agencies in Texas and South Carolina via our prime ITSAC contracts. Cleared, vetted, ready to place.
- Mid-market with serious back-office software
- Companies who outgrew QuickBooks years ago and need someone to own the PeopleSoft, Workday, or NetSuite footprint without a 200-person SI behind them.
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06Why Cynosure09
Why Cynosure
Three things you'll notice in the first month.
Senior people, full stop.
Every consultant we send could lead a team somewhere else. We don't sell associate hours wrapped in director titles. If the work is below our bar we'll say so and refer you on.
Onshore by design.
Our development center is in Houston. American time zones, native-English communication, the security posture U.S. enterprises have to satisfy. No 11 p.m. handoffs to a team you've never met.
Founder-led.
You meet the founder. The founder is on the project status call. If something is going sideways you do not have to escalate up four layers to get the firm's attention.
07By the numbers08
- 17years
- In business, continuously, from the same Houston office.
- 47states
- We've placed people or shipped work into.
- 99.94%uptime
- Average across our managed-services book in the last twelve months.
- 9days
- Median time from open requisition to first shortlist.
08Start a conversation08
Start a conversation
Three ways to begin.
A twenty-minute call. No deck. No obligation. We'll tell you on the call whether we can help.
Request talent
Open requisition. Contract, contract-to-hire, or direct hire. Tell us the role and the timeline.
Send the reqDiscuss a project
A specific piece of work that has to land. We'll come back inside the week with a phased plan and a rough budget.
Outline the projectPartner with us
Sub-contracting, prime/sub on a contract vehicle, or a referral relationship. We're easy to work with.
Open the conversation