“I think on a monthly basis we saw an overall reduction of almost $30,000 a month. For a nonprofit, that's significant.”
Don · 0:04Read the transcript →Watch ↗Solution 04 · Compliance & Regulatory
The 110-control questionnaire landed. The deadline didn't move.
CMMC, HIPAA, SOC, FedRAMP adjacency — compliance is where deals stall and audits bite. We turn your Microsoft tenant into the evidence machine: controls mapped, gaps priced, artifacts collected once and reused for every framework that asks.
Engagement shape
Assess → remediate
read-only first; fixes are priced line by line
Pricing model
Fixed price
published assessment prices, pay after approval
Evidence posture
Collect once
artifacts mapped across frameworks, not per-audit
Where it runs
Your tenant
M365 / GCC / GCC High — we work in all three
01 / The problem
It looks straightforward on paper. It never is.
Defense work now means CMMC, and CMMC means proving controls you may not have — in a tenant that may be the wrong cloud entirely. Healthcare and finance carry their own versions of the same clock.
Most Microsoft partners can't credibly play here: GCC High migrations, Purview configuration, and audit-ready evidence are specialist work.
02 / Solved looks like
A defensible compliance posture, evidence collected once and reused, and a partner who won't disappear after the audit.
01
A control-by-control map of where you actually stand.Not vibes — each control marked met, partially met, or gapped, with the Microsoft feature or process that satisfies it named.
02
Gaps with prices attached.Every finding comes with the fixed-price engagement that closes it, so the remediation plan is a budget document, not a wish list.
03
Evidence your auditor accepts on the first pass.Screenshots, exports, and policy documents organized per control — produced by the tenant itself, refreshed on a schedule instead of reconstructed in a panic.
03 / How we run it
The playbook, phase by phase.
Compliance work is sequencing: know the frame, measure against it, fix in priority order, keep the evidence flowing. Five phases, documents at every gate.
Phase 01Week 1
Fix the frame.
Which framework, which scope, which deadline — CMMC level, HIPAA covered functions, the customer questionnaire in hand. Ambition and scope get written down.
You receive Scope memo: framework, boundary, target date
Phase 02Weeks 1–3
Assess against the controls.
Read-only assessment of the tenant against the framework — SCuBA baselines, Purview posture, identity, device, and data controls, plus the process controls tooling can't see.
You receive Control map: met / partial / gap, with evidence status
Phase 03Weeks 3–4
Price the gaps.
Each gap mapped to a remediation — a configuration change, a published service, or a process you'll own — with a fixed price and a sequence that respects dependencies.
You receive Remediation roadmap with per-item prices
Phase 04Weeks 4–12
Remediate in order.
Identity and data protection first (they anchor most frameworks), then device, logging, and process controls. GCC/GCC High migration runs here when the framework demands it.
You receive Per-item closure notes wired to the control map
Phase 05Ongoing
Keep the evidence alive.
Scheduled evidence refresh, drift checks against the baseline, and a standing control map — so the next questionnaire is a filtering exercise, not a fire drill.
You receive Living evidence pack + quarterly drift report
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.
Compliance projects fail in predictable ways — usually expensively, usually right before a deadline. The four patterns and their controls:
The story you’ve heardWhat’s in our plan for it
“We bought the compliance SKU and assumed.”
E5 everywhere, Purview untouched, and the auditor's first question unanswerable.
Licenses are potential, not posture. The control map measures what's configured and evidenced, and the roadmap turns paid-for features on in the order the framework cares about.
“The screenshot folder from last year.”
Evidence reconstructed per audit, stale on arrival, owned by someone who left.
Evidence is generated from the tenant on a schedule, filed per control, with an owner and a refresh date. The pack is alive between audits, not resurrected for them.
“GCC High, six months late.”
The contract required a government cloud nobody scoped, and the migration became the project.
Cloud boundary is a phase-one question in our scope memo. If GCC or GCC High is in your future, it's sequenced and priced up front — we run those migrations as published services.
“Compliant on paper, breached in practice.”
The binder was perfect; the global admin had no MFA.
The assessment covers real posture, not just documentation — identity, endpoints, and logging get the same scrutiny as policy PDFs, because auditors and attackers both check.
05 / Services that combine
Assembled from published, fixed-price engagements.
Compliance engagements are assembled from published, fixed-price services — assessment first, then the remediations the control map calls for.
Know where you standCMMC Self-Assessment Assistance$4,000 per project · ≈ 30 daysBaseline the tenantMicrosoft 365 Advanced Security Audit Using the SCuBA Framework$1,950 per project · ≈ 10 daysGovernment cloudMicrosoft 365 Commercial to GCC High MigrationFrom $25,000 (scoped by tenant and CUI boundary) · ≈ 12 weeksProtect the dataMicrosoft Purview eDiscovery Premium Implementation$3,950 per project · ≈ 2 weeksProve itCompliance Evidence and Audit Readiness Retainer$950 per month · ≈ 30 days
See the full catalog →06 / Proof
Names, not logos.
Regulated clients, telling their own stories on camera.
“If not for IT Partner, I would probably be looking at one or two full-time employees to do that support, which would probably cost me a quarter million dollars a year.”
Vero Biotech · 0:03Read the transcript →Watch ↗“There was no downtime at all, and it was seamless. And the biggest thing is the forecast to project time: they were on it. We were never delayed. IT Partner fulfilled their scope when they said they would.”
Jeff · 1:41Read the transcript →Watch ↗“No vendor has ever taken care of me like you guys do.”
Clifford · 0:17Read the transcript →Watch ↗“It saves me hundreds of hours, because there's no way I could have set this thing up by myself.”
James · 0:10Read the transcript →Watch ↗“We typically just send an email to ask for a couple of additional licenses … and within probably an hour it's all set up and assigned by them, which is a huge benefit for us.”
Taylor · 3:18Read the transcript →Watch ↗“…we love having you as partners, because you really give us peace of mind on the day-to-day operations.”
Steve · 4:11Read the transcript →Watch ↗“I've been doing this in apparel for a little over 30 years. I've done seven or eight system conversions. There's always an issue with it. … this was probably the easiest experience I've ever gone through.”
Philip · 10:54Read the transcript →Watch ↗Recorded by the clients themselves — real names, real projects. Every recording has a full transcript on its page; videos open in a new tab. All eight, with transcripts →
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.
Which frameworks do you actually work with?
CMMC and NIST 800-171, HIPAA, SOC 1/SOC 2 preparation, ISO 27001 preparation, and the CISA SCuBA baselines for M365 — plus customer security questionnaires, which are most companies' real compliance workload. We prepare you for auditors; we don't replace them.
Do we need GCC High?
Only specific data types force it — ITAR, certain CUI under DFARS flow-downs. It's a scoping question with a factual answer, and it changes cost materially, so we settle it in week one rather than discovering it in month six.
How disruptive is remediation?
The roadmap sequences changes so users feel as little as possible — most identity and data controls tighten silently. Anything user-visible (MFA changes, sharing restrictions, device policies) ships with the comms-and-pilot discipline from our migration playbooks.
Can you just fill in our questionnaire?
We can do better: answer it truthfully from your control map, and where the honest answer is 'no,' hand you the priced plan that turns it into 'yes.' Security teams on the other side read confident, specific answers very differently from marketing prose.
What does this cost?
Assessments are published fixed prices on this site. Remediation cost depends entirely on the gap list — which is why the roadmap prices every item individually and you approve each before work starts.
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.