Practical IT tools. Free. No email wall.
The same templates and checklists we use on real client work, free to download and use. No sign-up form, no sales call. If they save you a headache, that's the point.
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# Templates & checklists you can print and use today.
Seven-sheet Excel workbook for documenting your entire network: site overview, equipment inventory, switch port map, static IPs, DHCP reservations, Wi-Fi & VLANs, and vendor contacts. If your IT provider disappeared tomorrow, this is the document that would save you.
Everything IT-related that needs to happen before a new employee's first day, on day one, and in the first week, accounts, devices, MFA, phones, door access, and the security basics. Print it, use it for every hire, and nothing gets missed.
The reverse of onboarding, and just as important: same-day account and access removal, equipment collection, file ownership transfer, and the 30-day cleanup. Most former-employee data incidents happen in the gap this checklist closes.
For a brand-new build-out or a space you're moving into: internet, network infrastructure, cabling, workstations, printers, conference rooms, security, and Microsoft 365, through final validation and sign-off, section by section.
Before the move, moving day, and after, plus a "gotchas" section covering the details that actually cause delays: alarm transfer, door access, static IPs, DNS, elevator access, and more. This is the list that keeps a move from becoming a week of scrambling.
Track every camera, DVR/NVR, door controller, fob and code holder, retention setting, and firmware date on your property in one working document.
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# Plain-English guides for non-technical owners.
A plain-English one-pager on multi-factor authentication, what it is, why passwords alone aren't enough, and why cyber insurance carriers now require it.
A plain-English translation of what cyber insurance applications really ask about, MFA, endpoint detection, backups, patching, training, and incident response.
An even-handed comparison of on-premises servers and cloud-hosted infrastructure, the costs and risks people miss on both sides, no dollar figures.
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# Interactive tools, free, in your browser.
Strong random passwords, or word-based passphrases that are easier to type, with a live strength meter. Nothing you generate leaves your browser.
Build a correct SPF TXT record for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or your own mail servers, with a live counter against the 10 DNS lookup limit, and step-by-step instructions for adding it to your DNS.
Generate a DMARC record with the right policy for where you are in the rollout, monitoring, quarantine, or full enforcement.
Common admin tasks as reviewed, fill-in-the-blank templates, local admin accounts, BitLocker status, temp cleanup, mapped drives, scheduled tasks, renaming a PC, restarting with a warning, installed application lists. Not AI scripting; you review everything before it runs.
Build a clean, professional email signature and copy it straight into Outlook or Gmail, name, title, logo, and contact details, live preview included.
Enter a domain and check SPF, DKIM, and DMARC in one pass, a plain-English scorecard with links to fix whatever's missing.
A rough, honest estimate of what an hour of downtime actually costs, lost productivity, lost revenue, and the annualized number if it keeps happening.
Enter employees, VoIP lines, cameras, and video calls, get a recommended download and upload speed so you know if your ISP plan is actually the problem.
Enter a device type and purchase year, see its age against typical warranty and replacement windows, with a plain-English urgency rating.
Pick a scenario, vacation, employee departed, holiday hours, or a new point of contact, and get a polished auto-reply ready to paste.
An interactive 5-year cost comparison using your own numbers, server, UPS, and backup vs. cloud subscriptions, paired with our Server vs. Cloud explainer.
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# Why these are free.
Good documentation helps everyone. Including us.
Half the messes we clean up started the same way: nobody wrote anything down. Nobody knows which port feeds the front desk, what the ISP account number is, or whether the new hire ever got MFA set up. These templates exist because we got tired of watching businesses pay for the same preventable chaos.
Use them yourself, hand them to your current IT provider, whatever helps. And if filling out the network workbook makes you realize you don't actually know what half your equipment is, that's exactly the kind of thing a free assessment sorts out.
We're adding more tools over time: a backup verification log, a rack equipment inventory, and more. Managed clients get the full library plus our help filling them in.
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# Want it done for you?
We'll document your network as part of onboarding.
Every managed client gets full environment documentation, built by us, kept current by us, and yours to keep if you ever leave.