Hill Country
Network · Security · Private AI
Somebody set up your network. Nobody's been back since.
I look after the systems small practices actually run on — the network, the backups, who can reach what, and the machine in the closet nobody has logged into in three years.
- Walk the network and find what's actually connected
- Check whether the backups have ever been restored
- List who has access, including people who left
- Write it up in plain English, with a price
The same five things, in nearly every office.
None of it is anyone's fault. Offices grow, people leave, and the person who wired it up moved on years ago.
Three levels. Start anywhere, move up when it makes sense.
The front door
A fast, hand-built site that says who you are and how to reach you — then stays looked after instead of quietly rotting.
- Custom build, no page-builder
- Hosting and uptime
- Certificate kept valid
- Changes as you need them
Somebody watching it
Everything above, plus the day to day. Machines patched, network watched, and one number that gets answered.
- Network monitoring and upkeep
- Computers patched and tracked
- Backups tested, not assumed
- One number when it breaks
Locked down, and useful
Everything above, plus proper hardening and — if you want it — an AI assistant running on hardware you own.
- Hardening and access control
- Written review on a schedule
- Records of who can reach what
- On-site AI, data stays put
Authorised security assessment
A scoped test to find what an attacker would find — agreed and signed in advance. Never something done to you uninvited.
- Scope agreed and signed first
- Findings in plain English
- Fix list ordered by what matters
- Priced on its own
Offices small enough to have no IT person, serious enough to need one.
Practices
Dental, orthodontic, veterinary, medical, counselling. You hold records you're responsible for, and whoever set the office up isn't coming back.
Professional offices
Law, accounting, financial advice. Client files, a licence on the line, and a filing system that grew by accident over fifteen years.
Trades and venues
Construction, roofing, electrical, event venues. Big jobs, real money moving, and bids sitting on a laptop with no password on it.
Optional, on Level 03
An assistant that runs in your office, not somebody else's.
Scheduling, staffing patterns, finding things in your own records — set up on hardware you own, so your files never leave the building.
- Runs on a machine in your office, under your control
- Your records aren't handed to a third party to train on
- Access limits, so not everyone sees everything
- Logged and documented, so you can show what happened
- Built around the systems you already run
Keeping data in your office is not automatically safer than the cloud. A machine in a back room with no backup and no logging is worse than a properly configured cloud account.
What you're buying is control, and a setup you can defend on paper — encryption, access records, tested backups, documentation. That's the hard part, and it's the part that counts if anyone ever asks.
Nothing gets touched before you know what it costs.
A phone call
Twenty minutes. What you run, what breaks, what worries you. No obligation, no jargon.
A site visit
I come and look at what's actually there — network, machines, backups, who holds keys to what.
A written plan
What I found, what I'd fix, in what order, and the price. On paper, before any work starts.
Ongoing
Monthly from there. You get somebody who already knows your setup instead of starting over each time.
A setup fee, then a monthly amount based on how many people you have.
I don't publish a price list, because quoting an office I haven't seen is guessing — and you'd be right not to trust it.
On the first call I'll tell you the range you're likely in, so nobody wastes an afternoon. The firm number comes after the visit, in writing.
Assessments and custom work are quoted separately, per job.
Tell me what keeps breaking.
If your setup is fine, I'll say so. That's a shorter call, and it costs you nothing.