§ Small-Business Security·United States

Security built for the business everyone else skips.

Most security firms are built for the enterprise, and most managed-security vendors sell you a dashboard you never read. Small and mid-sized businesses get neither the attention nor the plain English. We close that gap: a point-in-time read on where you actually stand, hardening direction your team can act on, and — where you need round-the-clock monitoring — a vetted partner we line up and manage on your behalf. Fixed-fee, plain-English, and a runbook on exit. We are an advisory firm. We direct the program and orchestrate partners; we do not run a 24/7 SOC.

Start with a Security Posture Assessment See the four offers → serving small & mid-sized businesses across the United States

The threats found you. The budget for an enterprise SOC didn't.

Ransomware crews stopped caring how big you are. Cyber-insurers and regulators now ask the same hard questions of a ten-person clinic that they ask of a bank — and "we use strong passwords" is no longer an answer that gets a policy renewed. The honest problem for a small business isn't a lack of tools. It's that nobody senior has ever told you, in plain English, where you actually stand and what to fix first.

47%
of businesses under $10M in revenue were hit by ransomware in the last year, and 57% now rank cyber as their #1 risk (ConnectWise, VikingCloud). Cyber-insurance renewals and HIPAA increasingly require evidence of continuous controls — not intentions.

So we start where it pays off fastest: a fixed-fee assessment that maps your real exposure to the questions your insurer and your regulator are already asking. From there you can stop, fix it yourself with our direction, or have us stand up and manage the right partner. You only climb to the next rung when the last one earned it.

§ What you can buy·four offers, one bench
Start here · fixed fee
Security Posture Assessment

A point-in-time read on your security posture — what's exposed, what to fix first, and where you stand against what insurers now ask.

  • Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace hardening and MFA review
  • Phishing-exposure check and a backup-restore spot-check
  • Cyber-insurance-questionnaire readiness checklist
from $1.5k · a prioritized, plain-English findings list and remediation roadmap. A point-in-time review of your environment as configured during the engagement.
Scope a Posture Assessment →
Recurring · advisory retainer
Security Oversight Retainer

A senior security advisor on retainer — monthly hardening direction, vendor and MDR-partner orchestration, and a report your board can read. We direct the program; a vetted MDR partner runs the round-the-clock monitoring.

  • Recurring posture review and prioritized hardening direction
  • Orchestration of a vetted MDR/SOC partner — we scope the requirement, manage the relationship, and translate alerts into action
  • Plain-English monthly report and incident-readiness direction
scoped to your environment · advisory and orchestration. Monitoring is delivered by a partner you contract; we manage the relationship.
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Fixed fee → roadmap
Compliance Readiness

Know exactly where you stand against HIPAA or your client-data obligations — the gaps, the fixes, and the policies to close them — before a regulator or a breach forces the question.

  • HIPAA Security Rule gap assessment and risk-analysis support (clinics)
  • Client-data-handling and access-control review (legal & professional services)
  • Policy and BAA template set with a prioritized remediation roadmap
scoped to your obligations · a gap assessment, remediation roadmap, and policy templates that move you toward readiness. A point-in-time assessment — not a certification or legal compliance attestation.
Scope a Compliance Readiness review →
Build → hosting
AI Front Desk

A hybrid AI receptionist for your front line — answering FAQs, booking appointments, and qualifying leads in seconds — that always offers a human, and always says it's AI.

  • Handles FAQs, scheduling, and lead-qualification, with a one-tap handoff to a real person
  • Built for local trades, clinics, and firms — disclosed as AI, never a hidden bot
  • Fixed build fee plus a hosting retainer; your team stays in the loop, never replaced
scoped to your front desk · we build it, host it, and hand you a runbook. A hybrid assistant that augments your team — never a promise to replace it.
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§ What this is·and what it isn't

Advisory and orchestration. Not a SOC.

We are a lean, senior advisory firm. We do not provide 24/7 monitoring or managed detection and response, and we do not watch your environment around the clock. We are honest about that on purpose.

Where you need continuous monitoring, that monitoring is delivered by a vetted MDR partner you contract. We scope the requirement, run a short vendor-neutral selection, manage that relationship on your behalf, and translate the partner's alerts and reports into action you can take. We make your team and tooling defensible; we never claim to prevent breaches, detect threats, or guarantee an outcome we can't control.

Every assessment on this page is a point-in-time review of a defined scope as it existed during the engagement. Findings can be invalidated by changes made afterward. "Readiness" means a gap assessment mapped to what insurers and regulators ask — never a certification, attestation, or guarantee of coverage.

§ Why small businesses pick us·plain-English trust signals
Cyber-insurance readiness
Answer the questionnaire honestly
We map your current configuration to the controls insurers now require, so renewal questions get evidence-backed answers — a checklist, not a coverage guarantee.
HIPAA & client-data readiness
Know your gaps before a regulator does
A Security Rule gap assessment, risk-analysis support, and policy templates for clinics and firms — readiness toward compliance, never a certification we aren't accredited to issue.
Ransomware reality
Built for the 47% nobody protects
Small businesses are now the target, not the afterthought. We harden what attackers actually exploit — identity, backups, email — and stand up monitoring through a partner when you need it.

Start with the read. Climb only when it earns it.

No enterprise contract, no rented dashboard, no open-ended retainer. Begin with a fixed-fee Security Posture Assessment from $1.5k — you'll know exactly where you stand and what to fix first. From there, fix it with our direction, add an advisory Oversight Retainer with a vetted MDR partner we orchestrate, or close a compliance gap before it's forced. The senior people who scope your work are the people who do it, and they hand you a runbook when it's done.

Scope a call See the full AI Security ladder →