Voyage to 1,000
One thousand small businesses, out from under the technology burden and back to the work they actually do.
That is the number. This page is what it commits us to.
Why a thousand
Pick a number too small and it changes nothing about how you operate. Pick one too large and it becomes a slogan nobody believes, least of all the people who work here.
A thousand is neither. It is far enough out that we cannot reach it by working harder — the only way there is to build things that serve a small business properly without a person having to carry every hour of it. And it is close enough that the decisions it forces are real ones, made now.
It also puts a hard test on every choice. A thousand clients is only a good outcome if the thousandth one gets the same answer on the phone as the first. Growth that degrades the service is not progress toward this number. It is just more clients.
What the number is actually about
Most of the businesses we serve have somewhere between two and fifty people. Not one of them started because the owner wanted to think about cybersecurity.
They started because someone was good at welding, or machining, or running crews, or building things that have to be right. Then the technology showed up — and the compliance behind it — and started taking hours away from the work that pays.
Our mission is to take that burden off their shoulders so they can pursue their passion. A thousand is just that sentence with a number attached, so it can be checked.
What we hold ourselves to
Indistinguishable from an internal department. Not a vendor you call when something breaks. A fiduciary responsibility to your business as if the bottom line were ours.
The honest answer, including when it costs us. If you do not need what we sell, we will tell you. If the real number is worse than the official one, we will say so before you are committed rather than after.
We’ve got the watch. The phrase comes from the Navy, and from a founder who stood real ones. It means the responsibility does not lapse because the business day ended.
Where this stands
We are early in it. We would rather show you a real number than a rounded one, so: three of three pilot clients through CMMC have passed their audits. More than 250 endpoints under management today. A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, founded 2014.
That is a long way from a thousand. It is supposed to be.
What we will not do is inflate the count to look further along, or sign clients we cannot serve properly in order to move a number on a page. The voyage is the point. Arriving with the ship in poor order is not arriving.
If you are one of the thousand
Most of the businesses on this list will find us because a clause showed up in a contract, or a prime asked a question nobody could answer, or the technology finally took one hour too many.
If that is where you are, start with a conversation. Twenty minutes, no obligation.
The success is yours. The mission is ours. We’ve got the watch.