Specialized Microsoft & AI Consulting Firm for Small Business

We See the Threats.
We Shut Them Down.

A specialized consulting firm delivering principal-led engagements in Microsoft 365 cloud transformation, AI governance, and Microsoft security architecture. Advisory depth typically reserved for the enterprise, engineered for the small business.

10yrs Microsoft Practice
Win + Mac Cross-Platform Architecture
Nationwide Remote Consulting, HQ Jacksonville FL
Endpoint Architecture
Engagement Delivered
Zero Trust Designed
Governance Active

Practice Depth Across the Microsoft Ecosystem

Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365
Microsoft Entra ID Entra ID
SharePoint SharePoint
Microsoft Intune Intune
Microsoft Defender Defender
Exchange Online Exchange Online
Microsoft Teams Teams
Microsoft Copilot Copilot
Microsoft Azure Azure

Four Focused Practices.
One Specialized Firm.

Every engagement is led by a practitioner with deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem. No generalists, no outsourced overflow, no handoffs.

Security Architecture

Advisory engagements covering Zero Trust design, Conditional Access authoring, Microsoft Defender configuration, and identity hardening. Deliverables include a baseline assessment, a written architecture, and a client-owned policy set.

  • Zero Trust Architecture Design
  • Conditional Access Policy Authoring
  • Defender and Purview Configuration
  • Security Baseline Assessment
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Strategic IT Consulting

Advisory engagements for small businesses running Microsoft 365 across Windows and macOS. Architecture review, Intune policy design, Entra ID governance, and macOS management consulting delivered as scoped deliverables.

  • Microsoft 365 Architecture Review
  • Intune MDM and MAM Policy Design
  • Entra ID Governance Consulting
  • macOS Management Consulting
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AI Governance

Advisory engagements that discover shadow AI, author governance frameworks, and deliver one of three outcomes: secure enablement with guardrails, full disablement, or a hybrid program tuned to your risk posture.

  • Shadow AI Discovery and Audit
  • AI Enablement with Guardrails
  • Full AI Disablement Program
  • Governance Framework Authoring
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Your IT Should Be a
Competitive Advantage

A small business deserves the architectural rigor that enterprise teams pay enterprise prices for. Every engagement is scoped, documented, and delivered by a Microsoft-certified practitioner who owns the outcome end to end.

Security-First Architecture

Security is engineered into every engagement from the first design decision. It is not a feature bolted on at the end of an implementation.

Principal-Led Engagements

Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner with hands on the architecture. No pyramid staffing, no junior delivery, no outsourced overflow.

Small Business as a Practice

The firm's focus is small business on the Microsoft stack. That is the entire client profile, so every deliverable is sized for the budgets and staffing reality of a company under 200 users.

Knowledge Transfer Baked In

Every engagement closes with a documented architecture, a written runbook, and a governance handover. Clients own the artifacts and the knowledge when the work is done.

gridlogic-security-scan
$ gridlogic scan --full-audit
[scanning] Analyzing Microsoft 365 environment...
✓ Entra ID: Conditional Access policies active
✓ Defender: Real-time protection enabled
✓ Intune: 47/47 devices compliant
✓ Exchange: DKIM/DMARC/SPF configured
✓ SharePoint: DLP policies enforced
⚠ MFA: 2 accounts pending enrollment
[complete] Security Score: 94/100
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Certified Expertise
Microsoft Certified Azure
Microsoft Certified AI
AWS Certified Cloud

Five Phases.
One Accountable Program.

Every engagement follows a documented methodology from discovery through governance handover. Deliverables are defined up front and owned by the client at close.

01

Discovery

The engagement opens with a structured interview series, stakeholder mapping, and environment inventory. The goal is a clear understanding of the business context, the technical landscape, and the outcomes that matter.

  • Stakeholder and outcome mapping
  • Tenant and endpoint inventory
  • Licensing and entitlement review
  • Scope and success criteria definition
02

Assessment

A written baseline assessment documents the current state, identifies architectural gaps, and prioritizes risks against the Microsoft ecosystem best-practice baseline. The assessment is a client-owned deliverable.

  • Security baseline assessment
  • Identity and access review
  • Risk prioritization matrix
  • Architectural gap analysis
03

Design

The firm authors a target architecture: a written design document that covers identity, endpoint, data, and governance decisions. The client reviews and approves the architecture before any implementation work begins.

  • Target architecture document
  • Conditional Access and policy design
  • Migration and cutover plan
  • Risk and change-management plan
04

Implementation

The approved architecture is implemented by the engagement principal. Migrations, configurations, and policy rollouts are staged, tested, and executed against a documented cutover plan. Status is reported at every gate.

  • Identity migration to Entra ID
  • SharePoint and Exchange Online deployment
  • Intune enrollment for Windows and macOS
  • Defender and Purview activation
05

Governance & Knowledge Transfer

The engagement closes with a written runbook, a governance framework, and a knowledge-transfer session with the internal team. Clients receive the architecture, the policies, and the operational documentation as their property.

  • Operations runbook
  • Governance and policy framework
  • Knowledge-transfer session
  • Advisory retainer transition (optional)

Enterprise-Grade Architecture
For Small Business Budgets.

The same Microsoft security architecture used in the enterprise, designed and configured for a small business environment.

Advanced Threat Protection

Microsoft Defender is architected and configured to detect malware, ransomware, phishing, and advanced persistent threats across the tenant.

Identity & Access Architecture

Entra ID Conditional Access policies are authored so only authorized users on compliant devices access your resources. Zero Trust principles baked into the design.

Endpoint Architecture

Intune MDM and MAM policies are designed for every Windows and macOS device, enforcing compliance before any endpoint accesses company data.

Data Protection Design

Microsoft Purview encryption, DLP policies, and granular access controls are architected to protect sensitive data across the entire Microsoft 365 tenant.

Security Awareness Programs

Engagement-scoped training frameworks that turn the internal team into a first line of defense against social engineering. Curriculum, phishing simulation design, and rollout plan included.

Recovery Architecture

A documented backup and recovery architecture with tested restore paths. Designed to protect business continuity against ransomware, tenant misconfiguration, and accidental data loss.

Consulting Engagements
Scaled To Your Business.

Every engagement opens with The Prove-It Period: 90 days of full consulting deliverables, no long-term commitment. The firm earns the retainer.

The Prove-It Period

90 Days for the Firm to Earn Your Trust

Most providers ask for a multi-year contract before a single deliverable arrives. The Prove-It Period inverts that: full consulting engagement, no long-term commitment, and a Security Baseline Assessment delivered as a client-owned artifact. Decide on a retainer at the end, on the evidence.

The firm does not ask for commitment. It earns it.

Essentials

GridLogic Essentials

The Prove-It Period

$99/user/mo

No long-term commitment
Retainer Engagement

$79/user/mo

Save $20/user/mo

A foundational consulting engagement for small businesses establishing a well-architected Microsoft 365 tenant.

  • Implementation Deliverables
  • Microsoft 365 Tenant Architecture
  • Baseline Security Configuration
  • Advisory Deliverables
  • Email Advisory Channel
  • Monthly Governance Report
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Premium

GridLogic Premium

The Prove-It Period

$199/user/mo

No long-term commitment
Retainer Engagement

$179/user/mo

Save $20/user/mo

A comprehensive consulting program with compliance advisory, governance authoring, and a dedicated principal consultant leading the engagement.

  • Advisory Deliverables
  • Everything in Professional
  • Compliance & Governance Framework
  • Security Architecture
  • Recovery Architecture Design
  • Security Awareness Program
  • Engagement Leadership
  • Dedicated Principal Consultant
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Retainer clients save $20/user every month after The Prove-It Period - the savings compound across the engagement.

The Prove-It Period
Step by Step

01

Engagement Begins Day One

The engagement opens at The Prove-It Period rate with no long-term commitment. Your team receives the same consulting deliverables, architecture work, and advisory access as clients on a retainer engagement.

02

Deliverables Arrive, Not Promises

In the first 90 days, the firm completes a Security Baseline Assessment, documents the target architecture, and executes the implementation roadmap. The assessment report is yours to keep regardless of what happens next.

03

You Decide on a Retainer

At engagement close, you have seen the work. Convert to a retainer engagement and the rate drops by $20 per user per month. If the firm has not earned it, walk away with the deliverables and no penalty.

04

Advisory Partnership, Not a Lock-In

Retainer engagements are structured with flexible terms. The firm does not believe in trapping clients; the business is earned every month through the quality of the work.

Expertise You Can
Count On.

Justin Stevens

Justin Stevens

Owner & Engineer

Nearly a decade architecting Microsoft 365 environments, authoring endpoint management strategies, and consulting on cross-platform Windows and macOS deployments for small business clients.

Alana Effler

Alana Effler

Client Success Manager

Engagement coordination and client-facing delivery lead. The single point of contact across every consulting engagement, ensuring deliverables land on schedule and questions get answered.

The Numbers
Don't Lie.

0hr Advisory Response Time Average during business hours - most engagement inquiries answered same day
0 wk Typical Engagement Timeline From discovery through implementation handover for a small business cloud transformation
0K+ Endpoints Architected Windows and macOS devices designed and enrolled across consulting engagements
0 Specialized Practice Areas Microsoft 365 transformation, AI governance, security architecture, and macOS consulting

Questions We Get
From Business Owners

A typical small business cloud transformation engagement runs 2 to 4 weeks from discovery through implementation handover. The timeline depends on user count, data volume, and the current environment's complexity. Every engagement is planned to minimize disruption and keep your team productive throughout.

A consulting firm delivers defined engagements with scoped deliverables, principal-level expertise, and architectural ownership. GridLogic IT designs your Microsoft 365 environment, authors the policies, implements the architecture, and transfers operational knowledge to your team. You retain the architecture, the runbooks, and the documentation at engagement close.

The firm concentrates on four practice areas: Microsoft 365 cloud transformation, AI governance, Microsoft security architecture, and macOS management consulting. That narrow focus means engagements are led by practitioners with deep expertise in Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Purview, and Copilot rather than a generalist sweep across unrelated platforms.

Yes. A Microsoft 365 Security Baseline engagement audits your tenant, activates security features you already license, and authors the Conditional Access, Defender, Intune, and Purview policies needed to reach best-practice standards. The deliverable is a configured environment, a documented architecture, and a roadmap you own.

The Prove-It Period is a 90-day trial engagement where clients receive full consulting deliverables with zero long-term commitment. The scope includes a Security Baseline Assessment, tenant hardening, and architectural recommendations. At engagement close, the client decides whether to continue on a retainer engagement.

Yes. Clients may end the engagement with 30 days written notice at any time during the 90-day period. No penalties apply and the Security Baseline Assessment deliverable remains the client's property.

The Prove-It Period rate covers the firm's intensive discovery and assessment phase, which front-loads environment analysis, baseline auditing, and architectural design. When clients convert to a retainer engagement, that cost is amortized across the longer term and the rate drops by $20 per user per month.

Yes. The assessment report is a client-owned deliverable regardless of whether the engagement continues. It is a professional architectural review of your IT environment and security posture that can be used to brief internal stakeholders, inform future engagements, or hand to another provider.

Schedule a
Consultation.

Most businesses do not know where their Microsoft 365 environment is exposed until an incident reveals it. An introductory consultation maps the landscape, surfaces the architectural gaps, and scopes an engagement that fits.

Complimentary introductory consultation
Scoped engagement roadmap
No long-term commitment