Step 01 · Start with what you already own
Take inventory
Before anyone sells you anything else, we find out what you have, what it can do, and what you are already paying for twice.
Most businesses we walk into are not under-equipped. They are under-connected, over-licensed, and nobody has looked at the whole picture in years.
So we look. We walk the site, open the racks, read the invoices, and log in to the consoles. We ask what each thing was bought to do and whether it is doing it. We check what your renewals actually entitle you to, because the tier you are paying for and the tier you are using are often not the same tier.
At the end you get a plain document: here is what you have, here is what it does, here is what it costs, here is what is dormant. No recommendations yet — just the truth of it. Plenty of clients stop after this step and go fix things themselves. That is a fine outcome.
Typically one to three days on site, depending on how many locations and how long it has been since anyone documented anything.