IT Consulting Services

An IT consultant assesses your technology, identifies where it is holding the business back, and recommends what to change and in what order. The work covers strategy, infrastructure and application reviews, security risk assessments, vendor selection, build versus buy decisions, and oversight of projects already underway.

Consulting produces the plan, services carry it out. A consultant tells you what to do, why, and what it will cost. A managed services provider runs your day-to-day IT. A development partner builds the software. We do consulting and development, and we will tell you when managed services is what you actually need.

At our rates of $25 to $49 per hour, an IT assessment runs $1,500 to $5,880, a strategy and roadmap engagement $2,000 to $7,840, a build versus buy evaluation $1,000 to $3,920, and a security risk assessment $1,500 to $6,860. Fractional advisory support runs $500 to $2,940 a month. Fixed-scope engagements are quoted as a single number.

Not for consulting. Per-user monthly pricing is how managed IT support is sold, typically covering helpdesk, devices, and monitoring. Consulting is scoped by engagement, either hourly or as a fixed price, because the output is a decision rather than an ongoing service.

Two to four weeks for an assessment, three to five weeks for a strategy and roadmap, two to three weeks for a build versus buy evaluation, and four to eight weeks for project oversight or rescue. Advisory retainers run monthly for as long as they are useful.

Hire in-house when the work is continuous and the knowledge has to stay in your company. Use a consultant when you need a decision made well in weeks, when you are between leadership hires, or when you need an objective read on work already in flight. Many companies do both, with a consultant covering the gap during a search.

Yes. Our office is in Princeton, and we work across Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Union, Essex, Monmouth, Bergen, Passaic, Hunterdon, Warren, and Sussex counties, with on-site sessions where they help. We also work with clients across the US entirely remotely.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons companies call. We run an independent read of scope, architecture, team, and process, then give you a recovery plan with options, including the option to stop. We are willing to say a project should not continue.

Yes. Technical due diligence and code and architecture reviews are standard engagements, whether for an acquisition, an investment, or a decision about whether to keep working with a current partner.

Access to the people who run the systems, whatever documentation exists, your current contracts and costs, and a clear statement of the decision you are trying to make. Most assessments need 6 to 10 hours of your team's time spread across two weeks.

We recommend what fits, and we take no commissions or referral fees from software vendors, so recommending that you keep what you have or buy nothing is available to us. Vendor selection engagements include a scored comparison and the questions to ask references.

Yes, and usually the first recommendation is narrower than clients expect. Gartner expects more than 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027, and the ones that work start with a single workflow, a baseline number, and a human approving anything that affects money, people, or compliance.

Your choice. Many clients take implementation support from our teams because the people who did the assessment are the fastest at executing it, some use the roadmap with their own staff, and some use it to brief another vendor. The report, data, and documentation are yours regardless.

We agree the measures before the engagement: cost reduction, incident volume, release frequency, time to onboard a customer, or whatever the decision is meant to improve. The recommendations are then tied to those measures, and anything that cannot be tied to one is presented as a judgment call rather than a result.