Discovery & roadmap
A structured assessment of your stack, risks, and priorities — then a 30/60/90-day plan that ships real wins.
Strategic IT consulting
IT consulting in Vancouver
Infrastructure strategy, vendor management, and practical roadmaps that align technology with your business goals — delivered by a local Vancouver team, priced for small business, not enterprise.
- Infrastructure and cloud strategy with clear trade-offs
- Vendor selection, renewals, and contract rationalization
- Security-first architecture and access design
- Cost optimization across SaaS, cloud, and licensing
What you get
How IT consulting in Vancouver actually works
Concrete deliverables — no vague SaaS jargon. Each engagement is sized to your business and reviewed monthly.
Architecture review
Practical guidance on SaaS, cloud, networking, and identity that balances cost, security, and growth.
Security posture
Identity, endpoint, and data protection reviews aligned with CIS/OWASP and your industry requirements.
Cost optimization
License rationalization, rightsizing, and vendor consolidation — typically paying for itself within the first quarter.
Vendor management
We sit between you and vendors to align SLAs, pricing, and escalation paths so you focus on the business.
Executive reporting
Clear monthly summaries of risk, cost, and progress — so leadership never flies blind on IT.
Why local matters
IT consulting built for how Vancouver businesses actually run
Most Vancouver small businesses we meet are not starting from zero — they are starting from a tangle. A SaaS stack that grew one subscription at a time, a domain registered by a designer who moved on, backups nobody has tested, and three vendors who each own a piece of the picture but not the whole. The consulting work is rarely about exotic technology; it is about establishing a single accountable view of what you run, what it costs, and what breaks first.
Vancouver adds its own wrinkles. Customer data here falls under BC's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), not just the federal PIPEDA, which changes the answer to "where should our data live?" more often than owners expect. Wage costs make full-time IT hires impractical below a certain headcount, so most local firms sit in the awkward zone between "the owner does IT at 10 p.m." and "we can justify a $90k hire." Fractional consulting exists precisely for that zone.
We work with the industry mix this city actually has — professional services firms in the downtown core, clinics and practices that carry real compliance obligations, film and creative studios with feast-or-famine infrastructure needs, and trades businesses that live entirely in the field. Engagements run on video and screen-share by default, the same way we deliver managed IT, so distance to our office never sets the response time.
Pricing model
How IT consulting is priced — and what it should cost
The Vancouver market for IT consulting runs from independent consultants billing roughly $100–$150 an hour to national firms quoting $200–$300 an hour with a project minimum. Hourly billing has a built-in problem for small business: the meter creates pressure to keep questions short, which is the opposite of what a discovery engagement needs.
We price it differently. Discovery engagements are fixed-price, typically in the low thousands, scoped in writing before we start — you know the number before the first interview. Ongoing advisory is a month-to-month retainer sized to the actual priorities on your roadmap, with no annual lock-in. Project delivery (migrations, vendor changes, security remediation) is quoted per project with rollback plans included in the scope.
The honest test for any consulting spend: the first quarter should identify savings or risk reductions that cover its own cost. Licensing cleanup, duplicate SaaS, oversized cloud instances, and expiring contracts nobody renegotiated are where that usually comes from. If a discovery cannot find that, we will say so in the findings document.
Who it is for
A strong fit for
- Owners who rely on a mix of freelancers and vendors but have no single IT owner
- Teams preparing for growth, funding, or an audit where IT needs a story
- Organizations recovering from a failed outsourced IT relationship
- Non-profits and professional firms with tight budgets and real compliance needs
- Teams that want a second opinion before signing multi-year SaaS or cloud contracts
- Businesses where nobody has mapped where the data, passwords, and logins actually live
Our process
How an engagement usually runs
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Discovery
A structured review of your stack, vendors, and risks. We interview key people, read contracts, and write a plain-English findings document.
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Roadmap
30 / 60 / 90-day plan with prioritized quick wins, owners, and cost estimates — built so you can share it with the team or board.
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Quick wins
Ship the highest-impact fixes first (MFA, backups, licensing cleanup, expiring renewals) while the longer work is planned.
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Project delivery
Execute on migrations, integrations, or vendor changes with clear scope, rollback paths, and honest status updates.
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Ongoing advisory
Monthly review of risks, costs, and upcoming renewals — plus a direct line when something unexpected lands.
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Executive reporting
Clean summaries for leadership — what shipped, what it cost, what risk was reduced, and what is next.
Trusted technologies we support
Related services
Pairs well with
Managed IT services
Flat-fee helpdesk, monitoring, security, and backups.
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Cloud solutions
Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud migrations and optimization.
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Hardening, monitoring, and incident response.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does IT consulting cost in Vancouver?
Vancouver rates run from about $100–$150/hour for independents to $200–$300/hour at national firms. We use fixed-price discovery (low thousands) and month-to-month retainers instead of hourly billing, so the number is agreed in writing before work starts.
Do we have to sign a long-term contract?
No. Most engagements start with a fixed-price discovery, then move to a month-to-month retainer scoped to the actual priorities.
Do you work with our existing IT team?
Yes. Most engagements augment an internal team rather than replace it, with a clear written split of responsibilities.
What size of business do you consult for?
Mostly 5–100 staff: the zone where IT genuinely matters but a full-time senior IT hire is hard to justify. Below that we usually recommend managed IT; above it, we work alongside your internal team.
We have no internal IT — can you be our IT department?
Yes. Many clients use us as their fractional IT team — help desk, vendor management, security, and strategy under one roof.
Can you help clean up our SaaS and cloud spend?
Yes — licensing review, vendor consolidation, and rightsizing. Most engagements pay for themselves within the first quarter from what we cut.
Do you handle vendor renewals and escalations?
Yes — contract reviews, renewals, escalations, and migrating between providers when the current one is clearly the wrong fit.
Can you lead a cloud migration end-to-end?
Absolutely. We plan, test, migrate, and verify performance with rollback paths and security guardrails — not a big-bang cutover.
How quickly can you start?
Usually within a week of signing the discovery. Urgent situations (incidents, expiring contracts, stalled projects) can start the same week.
Get an IT roadmap that fits your business
One short call to set goals, identify quick wins, and propose a clear 30 / 60 / 90-day plan.
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- Phone
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