Resources
Calculators, guides, and reference material
Everything here is free and ungated, and built to answer a question rather than collect an email address. The calculators use published prices and print their assumptions on the page so you can argue with them. The guides say what things cost and what the work actually involves.
Calculators and tools
Interactive, no sign-up, and they will tell you when the answer is not the one we sell.
In-house vs outsourced IT cost calculator
The fully loaded cost of running IT internally, including payroll burden, the tool stack, licensing, and hiring, next to flat per-user managed IT. Every assumption is editable.
Weighing a first IT hire, a second one, or an MSP.
Open the calculator →Microsoft 365 licensing cost calculator
Business Premium, E3, and E5 priced against the capabilities you actually need, with current 2026 list prices, the 300-seat cap, and the real point where E5 starts winning.
Renewing, growing past 300 seats, or being sold E5.
Open the calculator →Microsoft 365 license decision tree
Five questions about how your business actually works, then a recommended SKU mix for the whole organization: which staff go on which plan, what each line costs, why that answer beat the alternatives, and what we deliberately did not recommend.
Working out which licenses different kinds of staff should be on.
Answer five questions →Email authentication checker
Reads any domain's SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, and BIMI records over public DNS, grades them against a rubric printed on the page, and gives you the exact records to publish for whatever is wrong.
Finding out whether someone can send mail as your domain.
Run a check →IT and security glossary
277 terms defined in plain English, written by the engineers who work with them. Searchable, cross-linked, and free of the vendor language that made you look the term up in the first place.
Data
Public records pulled together, filtered to Arizona, and kept current. Free to cite with a link.
Guides and reference
The pages people ask us to send them after a call.
In-house vs managed IT: the real cost
What one technician costs line by line, and the side-by-side by team size, with sources.
Managed IT pricing, published
Per-user bundle rates, volume discounts, fixed-price penetration testing, and what is billed on top. No call required to see a number.
Compliance frameworks, in plain terms
What HIPAA, PCI, SOC 2, and NIST actually ask of you, and what the evidence work looks like.
Penetration testing scopes and pricing
What each tier covers, how the testing is done, and what you get back at the end.
Field Notes
Longer-form writing from the engineers who do the work, sorted into four tracks.
How we keep these honest
Microsoft list prices are re-verified against Microsoft's own published pricing every quarter, and each calculator carries the date it was last checked so you can tell at a glance whether it has caught up with the latest change. Salary and tooling benchmarks are market midpoints from named sources, listed at the bottom of each tool, and every one of them is editable. If a calculator tells you the answer we would rather sell you, it is because the numbers said so, and when they say otherwise the calculator says that instead.
We will run the comparison with you
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