American startups run on thin budgets, hire faster than they plan for, and have to look credible to investors and customers from the first week. The kit exists for the long stretch between the founder doing everything and the company being large enough to hire someone senior for IT. It stands up in days rather than months, moves up a tier when the headcount does, and does not leave you tearing out an early shortcut two years later.
The tenant gets provisioned, the domain configured, mailboxes created and a security baseline applied. You choose between Business Basic, Standard and Premium according to what you actually need.
Laptops from Dell, HP, Lenovo or Apple, procured, pre-imaged, enrolled in Intune and ready to ship directly to your people. Where the team brings its own hardware, we handle managed enrollment instead.
Entra ID with MFA enforced, conditional access at a sensible baseline, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and a password manager. Zero trust foundations from the first day rather than retrofitted at Series B.
We register the domain, or transfer it if you already own one, configure DKIM, SPF and DMARC properly, get the mailboxes ready and switch on an anti-phishing baseline. Nobody spends month one dealing with spoofed mail.
Microsoft Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint sites and shared calendars, all configured. Where your team already lives in Slack, Notion or something else, we integrate rather than insisting they move.
Written procedures for adding new staff, onboarding a client, and the questions that come up most often. It is the playbook that makes self-service genuinely possible before you have anybody in an IT role.
Having done this repeatedly counts for something. We have set up solo founders working from a spare room, seed-stage teams of five, and Series A teams of twenty five. The questions that always come up get answered before anybody has to ask them.
You pay for what you use, carry none of the enterprise overhead, and receive a monthly bill you can read. Microsoft 365 licensing goes through at standard CSP rates with no margin hidden inside it.
Five to ten business days from signature to working IT. Devices shipped, mailboxes live, and everybody able to sign in and get on with it.
A remote-first team familiar with Delaware C-Corp and LLC structures, state-by-state employment law, and common US-startup patterns. Same business context, aligned to your working hours.
A short call to gather requirements and settle on a package. By the end of it you have a written plan and a launch date in the calendar.
The foundations go in. Domain registered, hosting arranged, DNS records written, certificates installed and mailboxes created.
Cloud services and applications are configured next. Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, file storage, the security tooling, whatever the team collaborates in, and phones.
An onboarding session with the team, security training, a short guide to how it all fits together, and a final round of testing. Everyone signs in and works the following morning.
Support and a health check every month, software kept patched, help when you scale, and someone to think with as the company changes shape.
Seed and Series A software companies. Microsoft 365 alongside the development environment, GitHub integrated, code stored securely, and devices provisioned fast enough to keep up with hiring.
Independent consultants and small consulting firms. Document management that works, options for a client portal, email that looks professional, and remote working that is genuinely secure.
Distributors, wholesalers and import-export businesses. Microsoft 365 ready to sit alongside an ERP, supplier portal access, multi-currency invoicing and the documentation customs will ask for.
Direct to consumer brands and digital agencies. A cloud-native stack throughout, Microsoft 365 integrated with the creative tooling, and operations built mobile-first.
New restaurants, coffee shops and ghost kitchens. Point of sale integration, a customer database, online ordering and supplier coordination.
Training providers and education technology companies. Tooling ready for a classroom, portals for parents, and infrastructure that delivers content reliably.
Running the business from a free consumer mailbox. Every investor and every customer sees the address, and the impression it leaves is hard to undo later.
Mail on your own domain from the first week, with DKIM, SPF and DMARC configured properly so what you send actually reaches the inbox.
Immediate credibility uplift with customers, partners, and investors
No real backup. Everyone assumes OneDrive is catching things, nobody has ever checked, and a stolen laptop or a ransomware incident takes months of work with it.
Automated backup covering OneDrive, SharePoint, mailboxes and the devices themselves, with a restore tested every quarter so the answer is known before the day you need it.
Catastrophic data loss eliminated, RPO < 24 hours
Thin security. One admin password everyone knows, no MFA, company mail sitting on personal phones, nothing encrypted. The exposed surface grows with every hire.
Serious controls from the beginning. MFA required for everyone, encryption enforced on every device, conditional access shaping who can connect from where, a password manager the team actually uses, and training that is not a video nobody watches.
Breach surface minimized, IP and customer data protected
Tools picked at random. A dozen products that do not talk to each other, nobody formally trained on any of them, and overlapping subscriptions quietly billing until somebody finally reads the invoices.
A stack chosen to fit how the business actually works. Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace at the center, deliberate picks for customer records, accounting and project tracking, and nothing bought twice.
Tooling cost reduced, training time cut, integration friction eliminated
Nothing written down. One person carries the whole picture in their head, which holds right up until they are on vacation, out sick, or trying to bring a new hire up to speed.
An onboarding playbook ships with the kit. The tenant configuration is written down, the routine tasks have runbooks, new starters have a setup procedure, and there is a clear path for when something needs escalating.
Smooth onboarding for every new hire, no founder-bottleneck
Building only for today. What carries three people falls apart at fifteen, when a file server in the corner and support requests living in somebody inbox both become the bottleneck. Rebuilding halfway up is the expensive way to learn this.
Cloud native from the outset with a defined route upward. Moving between tiers adds services and licenses rather than starting again.
Continuous growth without expensive mid-stage migrations
| Feature | DIY startup IT Founder time | Business Kit Bundled service |
|---|---|---|
Time to operational IT | 2-4 weeks (founder time) | 5-10 business days |
Vendors to manage | M365 reseller + device vendor + IT support | GR IT |
Security baseline | Often skipped | Standard |
Day-1 mistakes The usual do-it-yourself failures: email authentication left half-configured, MFA never switched on, one admin password shared around Slack. | Common | Prevented |
Founder time spent | 40-100 hours | 4-8 hours |
Scales with growth | Often rebuilt at Series A | Continuous growth |
Cost | Hidden (founder time + bad-decision rework) | Fixed bundle |
From solo founders to Series A scaleups across Delaware, California, Texas, and New York.
Signed contract to operational team, with devices in hand.
Versus piecing IT together yourself or hiring traditional consultants.
Measured at 30, 90, and 365 days post-launch.
P1 incidents acknowledged in 5 minutes, around the clock.
Not one launch date missed in the past two years.
1-2 days
A short call to understand the shape of the team, how fast you expect to grow, and what has to integrate. You leave it with a configured kit and a contract to sign.
2-5 days
Licenses turned on, laptops ordered or your existing ones enrolled, and the domain set up. Most of the kit is standing by day five.
2-3 days
The tenant configured, the security baseline applied, mailboxes live, machines imaged. The founder gets an onboarding playbook to hand to the next hire.
Continuous
Support every month, new starters onboarded, extra devices added, and a review whenever you are ready to move up a tier. The same engineers stay with you the whole way.
The platform everything else in the kit sits on. Tenant administration, identity and the security baseline are run for you as part of the same engagement.
Once the kit stops being the right fit, usually past Series A with thirty or more staff and hardware on site, the natural step up is a full annual maintenance contract.
The managed tier for companies that have scaled. We take operational ownership outright, with advisory time at the strategic level and a named lead engineer.
The form takes about three minutes. Somebody comes back the same working day with a recommended tier, and we will say plainly whether the kit can hit your launch date before you commit to anything.
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