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Solution 01 · Cloud-First Workplace

The office moved. Half your IT didn't.

A cloud-first workplace isn't a pile of licenses — it's identity, devices, files, and security working as one system your people can use from anywhere. We build it in phases, on fixed prices, without breaking the way anyone works today.

Engagement shape
Phased rollout
identity → devices → files → hardening
Pricing model
Fixed price
published per-project prices, pay after approval
Disruption budget
Minimal
pilot-first; nobody loses a working tool
Who runs it
One team
engineers + training, accountable together
01 / The problem

It looks straightforward on paper. It never is.

You inherited a stack that grew by accretion. An on-prem file server nobody trusts to delete from. A Google Workspace tenant from the side project that became a department. A VPN concentrator you patch on Saturdays because the change window is everyone else's business hours.

The board approved a “cloud-first” mandate. Marketing put it on a slide. Now the question on the table is who's actually going to migrate the mailboxes, retire the legacy apps, get MFA on every account, and keep the CFO from finding out the hard way what technical debt costs.

02 / Solved looks like

A modern, secure workplace your people can use from anywhere — without giving up the controls IT actually needs.

01
One login, everywhere, with MFA people don't hate.

Entra ID becomes the front door to everything — conditional access does the security work invisibly instead of nagging users all day.

02
Laptops that set themselves up.

Intune enrollment means a new hire opens the box, signs in, and gets a compliant, encrypted, fully-configured machine — no IT hand-holding, no golden images.

03
Files that stopped living on the server under the stairs.

SharePoint and OneDrive with a structure people actually navigate, external sharing that's governed instead of banned, and backup that isn't a USB drive.

03 / How we run it

The playbook, phase by phase.

The same sequence every time: make identity trustworthy first, then devices, then data, then tighten. Each phase ships something people use — this is not a six-month plan with nothing visible until the end.

Phase 01Weeks 1–2
Assess what exists.

Read-only review of your tenant, devices, file shares, and security posture. What's already right stays; what's risky gets a number and a priority.

You receive Workplace assessment + phased plan with fixed prices
Phase 02Weeks 2–4
Identity first.

Entra ID cleanup, MFA and conditional access designed around how people actually work — service accounts, shared mailboxes, and the CEO's travel schedule included.

You receive Identity baseline: policies live, break-glass documented
Phase 03Weeks 4–7
Devices under management.

Intune enrollment by pilot group, then department by department. Compliance policies, disk encryption, and app deployment — tested on real users before it's policy.

You receive Device baseline + enrollment runbook
Phase 04Weeks 6–10
Files to the cloud.

File-server and personal-drive content mapped and migrated to SharePoint and OneDrive, with permissions redesigned instead of copied blindly.

You receive Migration report: what moved where, who owns it
Phase 05Final weeks
Harden and hand over.

Security baseline applied, Defender configured, alerts routed to someone who reads them, and training so the new workplace is actually adopted.

You receive Hardening report + admin handover session

Week ranges reflect a typical engagement — your written plan comes with dates and fixed prices before anything starts.

04 / What goes wrong elsewhere

The horror stories, and the engineering that prevents them.

Cloud-workplace projects rarely fail loudly — they fail quietly, into shelfware and workarounds. The four ways it goes wrong elsewhere, and what's in our plan for each.

The story you’ve heardWhat’s in our plan for it
“We bought the licenses. Nothing changed.”

Business Premium everywhere, still no MFA, files still on the server — nobody owned the rollout.

Every phase has an engineer-owner, a date, and a deliverable document. Licensing you already pay for gets turned on and used before anything new is proposed.
“MFA day broke the warehouse.”

A blanket MFA mandate hit shared workstations, kiosk users, and the scanner-gun app nobody remembered.

Conditional access is designed from an inventory of how people really sign in — shared devices, service accounts, legacy apps — and piloted on each pattern before enforcement.
“The file migration made everything worse.”

Ten years of J: drive dumped into one SharePoint site; nobody can find anything and half the links broke.

Structure is designed with department owners before a single file moves, permissions are rebuilt rather than inherited, and old paths get a mapped, communicated replacement.
“Users just kept using the old thing.”

Six months later, attachments instead of links, personal Dropbox accounts, and the VPN still on.

Training and comms ship inside every phase, and adoption is measured — we look at usage reports with you 30 days after each rollout and adjust what didn't land.
05 / Services that combine

Assembled from published, fixed-price engagements.

A cloud-first workplace is assembled from published, fixed-price engagements — these are the ones that anchor nearly every rollout.

See the full catalog →
06 / Proof

Names, not logos.

The clients below run their day on the workplaces we built — and recorded what that's like themselves.

Recorded by the clients themselves — real names, real projects. Videos open in a new tab.

07 / Honest answers

Questions we get asked, answered without spin.

If your question isn't here, ask it below — an engineer answers by email, and Mike reads every one.

Do we have to move everything at once?

No — the phases are designed to ship value independently. Plenty of clients do identity and devices first and schedule the file migration for a quieter quarter. The assessment gives you the full menu with fixed prices; you choose the pace.

Will MFA annoy everyone?

Done right, most people see one prompt per day or fewer. Conditional access evaluates risk silently — trusted device, known location, compliant machine — and only challenges when something's off. The nagging version of MFA is a design failure, not a security requirement.

What happens to our file server?

It gets inventoried, its content mapped to SharePoint/OneDrive with rebuilt permissions, and then it gets a documented retirement date. Nothing is switched off until usage reports show the new location is where the work actually happens.

Can our own IT person stay involved?

Please. We work with in-house IT, not around them — they get the runbooks, the admin handover session, and the escalation line. The goal is that your team owns the result confidently, with us behind them.

What does this cost?

Each phase is assembled from published fixed-price services — you can read every price on this site before we ever talk. The assessment quantifies which phases you need and in what order, and you pay after approval on each.

Didn’t find your question?

Ask it here. A real engineer answers by email within one business day — and if it’s a good one, it becomes part of this page so the next person finds it.

Answered by a person, one time, to your inbox. Nothing you type here is published without a human reviewing and anonymizing it first.

Talk to the person who’ll actually be accountable.

Thirty minutes with Mike — our CEO, not a sales rep. He’ll tell you whether we’re the right fit, including when we’re not.