Support, security, infrastructure, and software — delivered by one accountable team. Every engagement begins with a free consultation and a clear, fixed-scope plan.
A lot of capability, one simple structure. Wherever your need falls, there’s a clear front door — and the families work together as your needs grow.
Strategy before spend: assessments, roadmaps, and executive counsel.
The always-on layer: support, security, and systems that just work.
Projects and products: from infrastructure upgrades to custom platforms.
The forward edge: intelligence, automation, and experiments that pay off.
Complete day-to-day care of your technology: a responsive helpdesk your team will actually like calling, proactive monitoring and patching, and vendor management that takes the runaround off your plate.
Layered defenses matched to your actual risk: assessments that show where you stand, protection and training that harden your weakest points, and advisory support for the compliance frameworks your industry demands.
The upgrades and initiatives that move your business forward — planned by senior engineers, executed with minimal disruption, and documented so your environment stays maintainable long after the project closes.
Custom software when off-the-shelf falls short: business applications, integrations, and automation that fit the way you actually work — plus modern, fast websites that turn visitors into customers.
Skilled engineers and developers who plug directly into your team when you need capacity or a capability you don’t have in-house — without the overhead and delay of hiring. Scale up for a push, scale down when it ships.
Executive-level technology leadership without the executive-level payroll: a fractional CIO or CTO who owns your technology strategy, budget, and vendor relationships — and answers to your leadership like one of your own.
Your systems already hold the data — they just don’t talk to each other. We connect payments, CRM, accounting, e-commerce, and industry platforms into one coherent flow, so information is entered once and appears everywhere it should. If it has an API, we can connect it; if it doesn’t, we’ll find another way in.
Technology only pays off when your people are confident with it. We train your team on the systems we build and the tools you already own — in plain language, matched to each role — so capability stays in your building long after any engagement ends.
A website nobody finds is a brochure in a drawer. We make the technology you’ve invested in actually produce customers: search visibility, content that earns rankings, and measurement honest enough to show you what’s working — and what to stop paying for.
We evaluate your current environment, define success criteria with you, and produce a fixed scope with a clear timeline and budget — before any work begins.
Senior engineers do the work in carefully sequenced stages, testing as they go, with scheduled updates so you always know exactly where the project stands.
We train your team, hand over clean documentation, and stay on call after go-live — because a project isn’t done until your people are comfortable with it.
Different needs call for different arrangements. Choose the model that matches your project — or blend them as your needs evolve.
A one-to-two-week paid discovery before any large build: scope, architecture, backlog, and a firm quote. De-risks the project — and the fee credits toward the build if we proceed.
A defined deliverable, timeline, and price agreed before work begins. Best for migrations, buildouts, and one-time initiatives where certainty matters.
Engineers and developers who work as an extension of your staff — your priorities, your tools, our people. Best for ongoing development and long roadmaps.
A flat monthly plan covering support, monitoring, security, and maintenance — predictable costs and one team accountable for everything.
Hourly billing punishes you for asking questions. Our subscription plans flip that: a predictable monthly fee, a queue you control, and the freedom to adjust or pause as your needs change.
Plans are priced to your headcount and systems after a free assessment — so you pay for your environment, not an average of everyone else’s. Adjust tiers or pause project work with 30 days’ notice.
Every option has a place. Here’s how they actually compare — including where we’re not the right answer.
| In-House Hire | Freelancers | Canaan One | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breadth of skills | One person’s skill set — excellent at some things, learning the rest on your time | Deep in one specialty; assembling several is your job | A full bench: engineers, developers, security, design, and leadership |
| Coverage | Business hours, minus vacations, sick days, and the day they resign | When their calendar allows | Always-on monitoring with team redundancy behind every role |
| Cost structure | Salary, benefits, training, tooling — fixed cost whether busy or not | Hourly and unpredictable; scope drift is billed to you | Flat monthly plans or fixed project prices, agreed in advance |
| Accountability | An employment relationship — performance managed by you | Per task; quality control is on you | Contractual response targets, weekly status, quarterly reviews |
| Scaling | Hiring cycles measured in months; layoffs when needs shrink | Re-sourcing and re-onboarding each time | Dial capacity up or down with 30 days’ notice |
When is in-house the right call? When technology is your product and a role is needed full-time, every day — a growing software company should absolutely employ its core engineers. Many of our clients pair a small internal team with us for depth, coverage, and surge capacity. If a hire serves you better than a contract, we’ll tell you so.
Most transitions complete within two to four weeks. We run a structured onboarding: documenting your environment, capturing credentials securely, and shadowing the outgoing provider where possible — so your team never notices the handoff.
Yes. Many clients use us as co-managed IT: their internal team handles day-to-day items while we provide escalation support, security oversight, and project capacity. We complement in-house staff, not compete with them.
Projects are quoted as a fixed scope with a fixed price after a free consultation and assessment. Ongoing services are flat monthly plans based on users and systems covered. Either way, you know the number before we start.
We provide compliance advisory and remediation for frameworks including HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and CMMC — from gap assessment through implementing the controls and documentation auditors expect.
The risk isn’t outsourcing — it’s outsourcing badly: no written commitments, no documentation, no exit path. We structure engagements to remove exactly those risks: contractual response targets, documentation you own from day one, least-privilege access we can hand back, and no lock-in. Compare that honestly with a single in-house hire who can resign with two weeks’ notice.
It depends on your headcount, systems, and goals — which is why we quote after a free assessment rather than publishing one-size-fits-none prices. What we can promise about cost: it’s a flat number agreed in advance, it doesn’t change without your written approval, and for most businesses it lands well below the fully loaded cost of an equivalent in-house team.
You pay one flat monthly fee based on your headcount and systems — scoped after a free assessment. Support and security are always-on; project and development work runs through a queue you reprioritize monthly. Tiers can change, and project work can pause, with 30 days’ notice. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.
A named engagement lead owns your account from the first call to the last — the same person, start to finish, backed by a team so coverage never depends on one calendar. You also get direct access to the engineers doing the work; we don’t route technical questions through account managers.
Agentic AI goes beyond answering questions: it completes multi-step work — reading an inbox, updating systems, drafting responses, escalating exceptions — the way a diligent assistant would. It’s ready for well-defined processes with clear rules and a human checkpoint on anything consequential; it’s not ready to run your business unsupervised, and we’ll tell you which side of that line your use case falls on. That judgment call is exactly what our AI readiness assessment is for.
That’s one of our core strengths. Our development team builds custom applications, integrations, AI-powered automation, and websites — see our Solutions page for the full picture.