Practical IT Consulting for Small Teams.
We provide the kind of senior IT guidance that usually requires a full-time hire: security, backup, compliance, strategic planning, and day-to-day troubleshooting. Built for organizations under 25 people with no dedicated IT staff.
Work is scoped and priced before it starts. Fixed-price, ad hoc, or T&M with a cap — whichever makes sense for your project. No monthly fees, no ongoing commitment, nothing installed on your systems.
Everyday IT Support
On-Demand IT Help
For teams with no in-house IT, small problems turn into big ones fast. There's nobody to call. A laptop won't connect, a new hire needs accounts set up, a vendor is asking for technical specs you don't have. We handle all of it. No issue is too small, and you don't need to commit to anything ongoing to get help.
Common requests include: setting up new employee accounts and devices, offboarding departing staff securely, troubleshooting connectivity or software issues, coordinating with internet or phone vendors, and handling the general IT tasks that pile up when no one owns them. We respond quickly, work efficiently, and hand everything back clearly documented.
Tech Cost Reduction Audit
Most small organizations are paying for tools nobody uses, licenses that were never right-sized, and subscriptions that quietly auto-renewed for years. We do a full inventory of your software, SaaS tools, cloud services, and vendor contracts — then map what you're actually using against what you're paying for.
You receive a plain-language report with prioritized recommendations: what to cut immediately, what to downgrade, what to consolidate, and what's worth keeping. We flag redundant tools and suggest right-sized alternatives. If you want help implementing the changes — vendor cancellations, license reductions, migrations — we handle that too.
IT Rightsizing & Cloud Migration
Organizational change — layoffs, restructuring, a shift to remote work — often leaves IT environments that no longer match your team's size or needs. Legacy systems, oversized storage plans, and stale user accounts create unnecessary cost and real security risk. We help you right-size without losing anything important or creating new vulnerabilities.
This typically includes auditing and offboarding departed user accounts, migrating on-premise files to secure cloud platforms (Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, SharePoint), consolidating or retiring legacy systems, and restructuring file storage so the remaining team can find things. Security is prioritized at every step — proper offboarding, permission reviews, and data retention handled correctly.
Security, Risk & Compliance
Cybersecurity & Risk Management
Small organizations are targeted by cyberattacks as often as large ones — and are far less equipped to handle them. You don't need a security operations center or a $50,000 software stack. You need the right practices, applied consistently, across your team and your tools. We assess where you're exposed and help you close the gaps that matter most.
This includes vulnerability assessments, password and access management reviews, multi-factor authentication setup, email security configuration, endpoint protection guidance, and staff awareness training. We work with what you already have wherever possible, and recommend affordable right-sized tools when gaps require them. The goal is real protection, not a binder full of policies nobody reads.
Backup, Recovery & Business Continuity
Most small teams assume their data is backed up because they use cloud tools — but cloud storage is not the same as a backup, and almost no small organization has ever tested whether their recovery process actually works. Ransomware, accidental deletion, a departed employee, or a failed hard drive can bring operations to a halt without warning.
We assess your current backup coverage across all platforms (email, files, databases, cloud apps), identify single points of failure, configure or recommend appropriate backup solutions, and document a clear recovery procedure your team can execute without us. We also help you define your recovery time objective and design your backup strategy around that target.
Policy & Data Management
Most small organizations have no written IT policies — or have policies they copied from the internet that don't reflect how they actually work. And their data is often scattered across personal drives, shared folders, email threads, and cloud apps with no consistent structure. Both create real risk: security gaps, compliance failures, and operational chaos when someone leaves.
We develop lightweight, practical IT and data policies built around how your organization actually operates, covering acceptable use, data classification, access control, retention, and incident response. We also help you design and implement a file structure and data governance approach your team will actually use, and train staff on why it matters.
Cyber Insurance & Regulatory Compliance
Cyber insurance applications have gotten significantly more technical — they now ask about MFA, endpoint detection, backup frequency, access controls, and incident response plans. Answering inaccurately can void your coverage. We help you understand what's being asked, get actually compliant, and answer truthfully.
For regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2, state privacy laws, grant-specific IT requirements), we assess your current practices against the relevant framework, identify gaps, and help you close them with documentation and process changes that fit your team's size and resources. We also help with IT sections of grant applications, funder risk assessments, and audit preparation.
Strategy & Operations
On-Demand CIO/COO-Level Support
Most small organizations can't justify a full-time CIO or COO — but the decisions that person would make still have to get made. Which platform to invest in, how to structure operations for growth, what to tell the board about technology risk. They often get made by whoever's in the room, without the right information.
We step in as a trusted advisor. Some clients call us before a major software purchase for an honest second opinion. Others bring us in to prepare the technology section of a strategic plan or board presentation. Some need a few hours a month of steady guidance through a growth phase, a merger, or a shift to hybrid work. Senior perspective, plain-English communication, zero agenda.
Workflow Automation & Ops Streamlining
If your team is copying data between spreadsheets, manually sending confirmation emails, or re-entering the same information in multiple systems — that's time and money leaving your organization every single day. We map your current workflows, identify the friction points, and design automated solutions that actually match how your team works.
We're platform-agnostic and hands-on with tools like Salesforce, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Cvent, Zapier, Box, and Airtable. Whether it's a donor intake pipeline, automated event registration, or a centralized file structure your whole team will actually use — we design it, build it, and train your team to own it.
New Office IT Planning & Infrastructure Design
Moving into or building out a new office is one of the most expensive IT mistakes organizations make — because decisions get locked into the walls. Network drops in the wrong places, Wi-Fi that can't cover the space, conference room AV that doesn't work reliably. We help you get it right before construction begins.
We assess your team size, work patterns, and technology needs, then produce a practical infrastructure plan: network layout, Wi-Fi design, conference room AV recommendations, vendor guidance, and a scope-of-work document you can take to contractors. We also review vendor quotes to make sure you're not being oversold.
