Pricing · Quoted for Your Business
Most IT providers make you sit through a pitch before they will say a number. Ours comes in writing, built for what you actually run rather than pulled off a rate card. Tell us what you have below and we come back with the figure the same business day.
A few plain questions about your business, answered in about a minute. A person reads it, and you get pricing in writing the same business day, built for what you run rather than a rate card.
You send this. A person reads it, not a bot. You get pricing in writing the same business day, built for what you run.
Book the free assessment and we inventory it for you: devices, accounts, licensing and exposure. You keep the findings whether you hire us or not.
Book the free assessmentThree ways to buy, two tiers each. Core is the whole security stack; Pro adds the 24/7 security operations centre and the compliance evidence packs. Our rate is $150 an hour across the board, billed in 15-minute increments. No minimum seat count, no three-year term, no charge to leave.
The stack, and you buy time as you need it
Every tool in the stack runs on your machines. Work is billed at $150 an hour when you need us.
Most clients land here
The stack, plus two hours of our time per user every month.
For the people who lean on their computer all day
Everything in Managed User, with five hours of our time per user every month.
Digital presence and vCIO
For businesses that need the technology run, not just kept alive.
Prices are per user per month, billed monthly, excluding third-party licensing such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace seats, hardware, and project work. Included hours are per user per month and do not roll over. Everything past them, and all work on Pay As You Go, is $150 an hour in 15-minute increments. Volume above 50 users is quoted individually.
Five beats, from the first phone call to the day it is simply running. Scroll it.
Day 0
Most transitions complete in 30 to 60 days. Nothing is cut over until it has been tested.
You call, or you fill in the form. Somebody who fixes things answers, not a qualifier reading a script.
We ask what broke, what it costs you when it breaks, and who has been looking after it. If we are not the right fit we say so on that call rather than three meetings later. Nothing is signed and nothing is sold.
What you do: talk for 15 minutes.
A full audit of what you actually have. Free, and genuinely no obligation.
Every device, every account, every license, every exposure. We scan what is reachable from the internet, check whether your credentials are already circulating in breach data, and inventory what you are paying for against what you are using. Most of it runs in the background while you work.
What you do: give us read access for a couple of hours.
You get the written report. You keep it whether you hire us or not.
Prioritised by what would actually hurt, not by what is easiest for us to sell. It names the gaps, the wasted spend, and what each fix costs. Plenty of prospects have taken that document to their existing provider and used it to get the work done there. That is a fair outcome, and it is why the report is yours.
What you do: read it, and decide.
We close the worst gaps first, in the order the report set out.
Cutovers happen outside your hours. Nothing changes without you knowing what and why. We also cut the waste the audit found, and for most clients the licensing and cloud savings offset a real share of what they pay us. Your old provider gets handled professionally; you do not have to have that conversation.
What you do: approve the plan, then get on with your work.
Monitoring, help desk, patching and security operations become ours.
A named engineer who knows your environment rather than whoever picks up. Documentation delivered to you and kept current, because it was always yours. One monthly figure that does not move unless your headcount does. And if you ever leave, you leave with everything, which is the part most providers make difficult on purpose.
What you do: call us when something breaks. That is the whole job.
Everything below is optional and quoted with your plan, so the base figure stays honest.
quoted with your plan
Business Premium resold near list, with the tenant configured and administered rather than just billed to you.
quoted per endpoint
Backups an attacker cannot encrypt or delete, with restores actually performed and documented.
quoted per user
Managed phone system with call routing, voicemail to email and an app so the office number follows the person.
quoted per project
Cat6A and fiber, tested and certified to ANSI/TIA-568, labeled and documented as-built.
quoted per site
Coverage and interference analysis across 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz with heatmaps and access point placement engineering.
quoted per engagement
Gap assessment, implementation and certification audit support for the AI management system standard.
Because it is a different cost structure, not a discount. A legacy MSP carries a tiered help desk where a ticket passes through two people who cannot fix it before reaching one who can, on tooling bought a decade ago. We automate the volume work and use AI to triage, correlate and close the noise, so we carry far less labor per managed endpoint. That difference goes into the price rather than into a margin. During the assessment we show you the line items so you can check it against your current invoice.
No. Most providers set a floor at 10 or 20 seats because small accounts are unprofitable under a staffed model. Ours is not, so there is no floor.
Pay As You Go has no contract at all, because there is nothing to contract for: you call, we bill the time. Managed User and Power User are typically annual because the onboarding work is front-loaded, but there is no three-year lock and no exit fee. If you leave, your documentation goes with you, because it was always yours.
On Managed User and Power User, all Cloud Guardian security tooling and its licensing sits inside the seat price. What stays outside every plan is your own third-party licensing such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace seats, hardware, and project work such as cabling and wireless surveys. The Small Business Plan is narrower by design: it protects the email you already have, so the wider suite and its licensing are not part of it. On Pay As You Go, after-hours and emergency work is charged at a special rate, agreed with you before the work happens rather than discovered on an invoice afterward. All of it is quoted before it happens. You will not find a line on an invoice you have not already seen.
Because they are different deals. On Pay As You Go you are buying our time when you need it, which suits a business that has few problems and would rather not pay a retainer for the privilege of not having them. Billing in 15-minute increments matters here: a 10-minute fix costs one block rather than a rounded-up hour. On Managed User and Power User you are buying the absence of problems, so the incentive has to be on us. A flat number means we lose money when your environment is badly run, which is the way it should be.
Per user, so yes, proportionally. Adding people changes the figure on the next cycle. Nothing else moves without a conversation first.
A full inventory of devices, accounts, licensing and exposure, an external check for what is already reachable from the internet, and a search for your credentials in breach data. You get written findings with prioritized remediation. If you do not hire us, you keep the report and can hand it to whoever you do hire.
cGuard Security SuiteTM
The assessment is free and the findings are yours either way. Worst case you get a written picture of your own environment and a number to hold your current provider against.
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