Who We Serve
Startups & High-Growth Companies
The right infrastructure for where you are — and where you're going
Overview
The tools that get a startup to Series A are rarely the tools that carry it through Series C. We work with founders and operators at every stage, from early prototyping to rapid scale — helping organizations build infrastructure that won't become a liability when growth accelerates or a compliance audit arrives.
The Funding Inflection
Knowing when to shift gears
Startup mode optimizes for speed. Enterprise mode optimizes for security, compliance, and scale. The gap between them — usually triggered by a funding round, a new enterprise customer, or an unexpected compliance requirement — is where infrastructure debt comes due all at once. We've helped organizations navigate that transition: auditing what exists, identifying what needs to change, and building a roadmap for getting from improvised to institutional without disrupting the operation that's funding the change.
Compliance Readiness
The requirements you didn't plan for
Enterprise customers and investors ask hard questions about security posture. Compliance frameworks — SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR — each have specific technical controls that need to be in place and documented before an audit, not assembled during one. We're familiar with the infrastructure controls these frameworks require and how to build toward them practically.
Budget Forecasting
What infrastructure costs as you grow
Headcount is the largest variable in IT cost, but it's not the only one. Cloud spend, SaaS licensing, device refresh cycles, and security tooling all scale with growth — and they scale differently. We help founders and finance teams build IT cost models that account for rapid growth and high turnover without containing surprises.
What We Bring
- Infrastructure assessment and technical debt mapping at any growth stage
- Familiarity with AWS, GCP, and Azure startup credit programs and what's available before you start paying full rate
- Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 deployment, migration, and right-sizing
- Device management pipelines that scale from 10 machines to 10,000
- Identity and access management: Entra ID, Okta, JumpCloud
- Onboarding and offboarding for high-turnover environments
- Budget modeling for IT cost as headcount and compliance requirements evolve
- Fractional IT leadership for pre-hire stages
Platforms & Tools We Know
AWS · GCP · Azure · Google Workspace · Microsoft 365 · Okta · JumpCloud · Entra ID · Terraform · 1Password · GitHub