IT and security for consulting firms.
SignalOne runs technology for consulting firms in Metro Detroit: the laptops in the field, the client data rooms, the Microsoft 365 tenant everyone lives in, and the security questionnaires your clients now send before they sign. Support, security, automation, and AI under one plan. Most of it starts with a 30-minute conversation.
The stakes
Why consulting firms carry a different kind of technology risk.
The product is billable time. A laptop that dies on a client site is a day of revenue gone and a deliverable that slips.
Your clients' security teams arrived too. Enterprise procurement now sends a vendor security questionnaire before the statement of work, and a weak answer costs the engagement before it starts.
And the work travels. Client files live in shared drives, personal devices, and email threads, so one departing consultant can walk out with more than a laptop.
What we handle
The whole firm, run as one system. Every piece a client's procurement team might ask about.
Laptops that work anywhere
Managed, encrypted laptops with same-day replacement, secure access from client sites and hotels, and a help desk that answers in eight minutes, because the consultant is billing by the hour.
Security questionnaires
We answer the vendor questionnaire with controls that exist: MFA (a second login step), endpoint detection, tested backups, and a written program. The answers are reusable from client to client.
Client data & confidentiality
Client files in one governed place, access scoped by engagement, data rooms that expire, and departures that revoke access the same hour.
Microsoft 365 & the practice stack
The tenant, Teams, SharePoint, and the time, billing, and CRM systems around them, configured to the way the firm works, with data clean enough to trust.
Client-driven compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001 readiness, and the contract clauses that arrive with enterprise work: scoped, sequenced, and evidenced. Our practice has carried companies through SOC 2 Type 2 and PCI.
AI, governed
Consultants are already pasting client material into chatbots. We write a policy your clients will accept, pick tools that keep their data theirs, and automate proposals, timesheets, and knowledge capture.
How it starts
No rip-and-replace. Client deadlines never wait on us.
A 30-minute conversation
Managing partner or COO, a senior person from our side, no deck. Bring the questionnaire a client just sent if one landed.
A quiet assessment
We map devices, access, and where client data lives while your current provider stays in place, then put findings and a transition plan in writing. Nobody is tipped off.
A sequenced first month
Access, inventory, monitoring, and the fixes that stop the repeat interruptions, scheduled around client deliverables and travel. How We Work walks the first thirty days, day by day.
Yes, and we do it with you so the answers are true. Where a control is missing, we say so, scope the fix, and answer with a date. Most of the questionnaire repeats from client to client, so the second one takes an afternoon.
The help desk answers in eight minutes wherever they are. Laptops are managed remotely, and a failed one is replaced from a configured spare, shipped or handed off the same day. Nobody drives back to the office.
With the right setup, nothing they shouldn't have. Access is revoked the same hour, client files live in governed storage rather than personal drives, and the offboarding produces a written record. We set that up in the first month.
Client names stay confidential, the same way yours would. The engagement record includes a professional-services firm's story, in their own numbers. References are available on request, in a direct conversation.
Most of this starts with a 30-minute conversation.
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