Practitioner-Led IT Procurement

The demo looked great. Nobody asked if it would work in your environment.

We evaluate vendors against your actual environment, negotiate pricing honestly, and handle procurement end to end. You get a practitioner who's deployed the tools — not a sales rep who's read the datasheet.

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What We Actually Do

We find the problems you'd discover six months after signing.

Every vendor's demo works. Every slide deck is polished. We've run dozens of vendor selection processes and learned that the real questions don't get asked until deployment day.

Hidden constraints, surfaced early

We dig into the integration requirements, deployment prerequisites, and operational overhead that don't show up in the feature matrix. The things you'd find in week three of a POC — we find before the first call.

In one evaluation, we caught that the vendor's SSO integration required a $40K identity governance add-on that hadn't been disclosed. The client was a week away from signing.

Environment-aware recommendations

We don't recommend products in a vacuum. Your existing stack, your team size, your compliance requirements, and your actual budget all shape the shortlist. A tool that's perfect for a 5,000-person company can be wrong for yours.

We flagged a SIEM deployment that required three full-time analysts to operate. The buyer's team had one. The vendor's sizing guide didn't mention it.

Vendor process, shortened

Most vendor evaluations take 3-6 months. We've done this enough times to compress the cycle — structured POC criteria, standardized scoring, and direct access to the technical teams that matter.

One client went from "we need an EDR" to signed contract in six weeks. Their previous vendor evaluation had taken five months.

Pricing, negotiated honestly

We know what the real discounts look like because we've deployed the tools. When we flag that a vendor's "enterprise" tier includes modules your team will never touch, we're not guessing — we've seen the shelfware pattern before.

You see the vendor, the SKU, and the price. No mystery markup. No kickback-driven recommendations.

The evaluation is free.

The scoping call, the vendor research, the recommendation — no charge. No retainer. No consulting invoice. You pay when you buy, and pricing is competitive with any reseller. The expertise is how we earn the deal, not how we bill for it.

How We Work

One conversation. Then we do the work.

It starts with a single hour-long call. You describe the problem. We listen, ask the right questions, and take it from there.

01 One hour

Discovery

You describe what you're evaluating, what you've tried, and what your environment looks like. We listen and dig into the goals, constraints, and nuances that shape the right recommendation. No pre-work required on your end.

02 Within one week

Recommendation

We research the market, pull competitive pricing, build a comparison, and return a shortlist with reasoning attached. Not a pitch deck.

03 Your pace

Execution

You review the options. From there, we help facilitate vendor conversations so you can take a deeper look at the products that fit. Once you've made your decision, we handle licensing, procurement, fulfillment, and renewal tracking. One point of contact.


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For Technology Advisors

We work with agents, consultants, and fractional CISOs.

If you advise clients on technology and they have cybersecurity, identity, or adjacent-category needs your TSD doesn't carry, we're your completion channel. Recurring commissions tied to your engagement. Categories that complement your existing book.

On a $48K endpoint deal, that's $3,840/year in recurring commission.

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One hour. No pitch deck. No obligation.

Tell us what you're evaluating and we'll start the process of finding what fits.

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