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Independent IT consulting & advisory

Technology decisions, made with the whole market in view.

A vendor-agnostic IT consulting and advisory firm. We assess what you already own, design against the business requirement, take it to the supplier market on your behalf, and stay on it through implementation and renewal.

20+ yrsIn technology
10Practice areas
243Services covered
NationwideHQ Philadelphia
How the firm is structured

Four facts about how we operate

These describe the commercial arrangement behind the advice, which is the part most technology firms leave unstated.

Vendor-agnostic

We carry no manufacturer quota. Our compensation does not vary with which provider you select.

Full lifecycle

Strategy, sourcing, implementation oversight and renewal are handled as one engagement.

Small-to-mid

We work with organisations that have real technology spend but no dedicated sourcing function.

Single owner

The advisor who scopes an engagement stays on it through implementation and renewal.

How we work

Four stages. The inventory comes before the advice.

Most technology overspend traces back to a decision made without a clear picture of what was already in place. We start there, every time.

Step 01

Assess

We start with what you already own: contracts, circuits, licences, renewal dates and the gaps between them. No recommendation before the inventory.

  • Contract & circuit inventory
  • Invoice audit
  • Architecture and risk review
  • Renewal calendar
Step 02

Design

An architecture mapped to your business requirements, not to a vendor's catalogue. You see the trade-offs, including the ones that argue against spending.

  • Requirements matrix
  • Options with costs attached
  • Scoring model you agree first
  • The do-nothing option, priced
Step 03

Source

We take the design to the market and run the evaluation on pricing, terms, SLAs and exit clauses, then negotiate on your side of the table.

  • Multi-provider pricing
  • Scripted demos
  • Terms and SLA review
  • Negotiation support
Step 04

Manage

Implementation oversight, escalation, invoice audit and renewal watch. The advisor who chose it stays accountable for it.

  • Install and cutover oversight
  • Single escalation path
  • Monthly bill audit
  • Renewal watch
Practice areas

10 practice areas, 243 services

The working inventory of what we cover, and what sits underneath each practice.

25 services
SEC

Cybersecurity

Layered defense on the NIST framework: identify, protect, detect, respond, with compliance evidence you can hand to an auditor.

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29 services
AIG

AI Governance

Governance for the AI already running in your business, built on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework: what is deployed, who owns it, and what happens when it is wrong.

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27 services
PRV

Data Privacy

Privacy programs built to run, not just to pass an audit: what personal data you hold, where it goes, and the workflow that answers a rights request on time.

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40 services
CX

Customer Experience

Contact centre, unified communications and the automation layer around them, so every channel a customer uses lands in one queue.

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36 services
CLD

Cloud & Managed Services

Where the workload should live, how it gets there, and who runs it at 2am, across public, private, hybrid and colocation.

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22 services
NET

Advanced Networking

SASE, SD-WAN and the circuits underneath, designed for the sites you have, priced against the whole carrier market.

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21 services
MOB

Mobility

Devices, plans and private cellular, provisioned, supported and repriced when the carrier bill drifts.

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21 services
IOT

IoT

Sensors, cameras and meters that turn physical operations into data you can actually act on.

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15 services
ADV

Advisory & Lifecycle

The work around the technology: strategy, sourcing, the people to run it, and responsible disposal at end of life.

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7 services
BIZ

Business Services

The adjacent services clients keep asking us to source once we're already in the stack.

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Why agnostic matters

The incentive problem, solved structurally.

A reseller earns more when you buy more. A manufacturer's rep earns more when you buy theirs. We're paid to get the decision right, which leaves us free to tell you the cheaper option wins, or that you shouldn't buy anything at all this quarter.

  • Every requirement priced across the supplier market, not a shortlist of two.
  • Contract terms, SLAs and exit clauses read before signature, not after an outage.
  • Invoice audit and renewal watch, so pricing drift gets caught in month two.
  • Responsible e-waste handling and certified data destruction at end of life.
Typical first engagement4–6 weeks
Week 1Contract & circuit inventory
Week 2Risk & architecture review
Week 3–4Market evaluation & pricing
Week 5Recommendation & business case
Week 6Negotiation & award
Fee agreed up frontStart one
Next step

Every engagement starts with an inventory.

Send us what is in scope: sites, renewal dates, current providers, or the regulation you are working to. We reply with what we would look at first.