Is your "pretty good with computers" employee actually costing you $100,000 a year?
When you’re looking at the budget, skipping a professional IT service feels like a win. You’ve got a senior manager or a "tech-adjacent" person who can handle a password reset or a router reboot, so why spend the extra cash? But, what looks like savings on paper often turns into a fragile, reactive environment that creates massive hidden costs.
Not only that, you're keeping that "pretty good with computers" employee away from the actual work you hired them to do! When your top operations manager spends 156 hours a year firefighting tech issues instead of optimizing your business, you aren't saving money, you're paying a "productivity tax" that keeps you from scaling.
This whitepaper shows you where accidental IT is happening in your organization and how to shift IT from a cost center to a strategic asset that powers your people.
What you’ll learn in this 11 page guide:
The Downtime Math: A simple formula to translate an 8-hour outage into hard dollars (spoiler: for a 50-person firm, it’s often over $55,000).
The Shadow IT Drain: Why your team is likely spending 30-40% of your IT budget on unapproved, duplicate software you don’t even know exists.
The Cyber-Insurance Trap: Why "DIY" setups are now instant "deny" triggers for insurers, leaving you with zero coverage when you need it most.
The Scaling Handbrake: How technical debt and 5-year-old hardware are quietly throttling your team’s ability to compete.
Power Your People
At the end of the day, IT shouldn't be a back-office utility you're constantly "fixing." It should be the engine that powers your people. This guide helps you move from unmanaged volatility to a strategic growth plan.
