Day-one IT: price of launching a new company

Who owns your domain and your email right now?

Usually one of you, personally. The domain sits under someone's name, the files live in a founder's personal cloud, and two people know the bank and accounting logins. In six months you will be untangling it — and untangling costs more than doing it right the first time.

Ten working days and everything is in the company's name

In one pass you get work email on your own domain, accounts for every employee, shared drives with a real structure, email signatures and sign-in protection. All of it in the company's name, not in the name of whoever set it up.

Where everything lives and who holds which rights — you get that in writing. It is the document everyone later wishes they had: your accountant needs it, your next hire needs it, and so do we if you stay on support.

After that you can run it yourselves or move to monthly support.

What we do in ten working days

included: Domain and mail records: MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
included: A company account in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace
included: Accounts and email for every employee
included: Sign-in verification and access recovery
included: Shared drives with a folder structure and rights by role
included: Email signatures and shared addresses such as info and sales
included: Written handover of the admin credentials to the owner
included: Setting up employee machines and the rules for them — in the Full launch
included: Staff training and two weeks by your side — in the Full launch
paid to the vendor: Licences, domain and hardware at the supplier's invoice, mark-up $0.00

Your price

Lean launch

$445 for up to ten seats

Domain, email, accounts and access. Beyond that +$30 per seat.

What the tier includes

included: Domain, mail records and an account in the company's name
included: Accounts, email and shared drives
included: Written handover of the credentials to the owner

Full launch

$1,680 for up to fifteen seats

The same plus machines, rules and training. Beyond that +$65 per seat.

What the tier includes

included: Everything in the Lean launch
included: Setting up employee machines and the rules for them
included: Staff training and two weeks by your side

Extras

not included: Moving email off someone else's server+$1,000 on the launch
not included: A seat beyond ten in the Lean launch+$30 per seat
not included: A seat beyond fifteen in the Full launch+$65 per seat
not included: Employee computers watched over after the launch$102 per seat per month
not included: A cloud workplace with no server in the office$75 per seat per month
not included: Cabling, switching and Wi-Fi installed in the office$165 per cable drop
not included: One-off work after the launch$112 an hour

Questions

There are only two of us. Is it too early for this?

No — right now is the cheapest it will ever be. For two people the domain, email and rights are set up in one pass. At twenty it turns into digging through personal clouds, migrating mail and working out who owns which file.

How does the Lean launch differ from Full?

By machines and training. Lean puts together the domain, email, accounts and access — the company starts working. Full adds employee machine setup, the rules for them, training and two weeks by your side after the launch.

We already have email on a domain. Does that count?

It counts and it makes things easier. We take what you have, put it in the company's name and build out the rest. If the mail has to move off someone else's server, that is a separate line — $1,000 on the launch.

What do we keep once you are finished?

The admin credentials, a written list of where everything lives and who holds which rights, and working email on your domain. You can leave us the same day the launch ends and lose nothing.

Day-one IT for a new company