Section 05 · The questions

What firms
actually want to know.

Seventeen questions come up before a firm signs with us. The five we hear most are answered first; filter the topic chips to narrow further.

Last reviewed by the partners — May 2026
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Q · 01
Pricing

How is your pricing different from every other MSP we've talked to?

Flat per-user, per-month. No tiers called Enterprise. No per-ticket charges. Projects are quoted as fixed fees with a written scope; we eat overruns. Our entire price list is on the Pricing page — there's no version we send only to procurement.

Daniel Briere, founder
Q · 02
Switching MSPs

We're already with another MSP. What does switching actually look like?

A 30-day overlap is included. We document everything we find in your environment, fix the urgent stuff in week one, and don't touch your existing contracts until the overlap ends. About 60% of our clients came to us this way.

Risa Ahn, onboarding lead
Q · 03
Off-hours

Who answers the phone at 9pm on a Saturday?

One of eight named on-call engineers, all of whom you'll have met. Not a triage line in another time zone. Average pickup 41 seconds. We publish the rotation on the client portal.

Marcus Tilley, ops manager
Q · 04
Onboarding

We're a 90-person law firm. What does the first 90 days actually contain?

Week one: discovery, urgent fixes, documentation. Weeks two–four: backup verification, MFA enforcement, patch baseline. Month two: a written security posture report your CFO can read. Month three: a quarterly plan we agree on together.

From the Halpern & Reed onboarding playbook, 2019
Q · 05
Security

How will you tell us when something's broken before we notice?

A monitored event opens an internal ticket. If it's customer-impacting, you get a call from a human within 8 minutes — not an automated email. We'd rather wake you up than let you find out from your office manager.

From the runbook
+ 12 more questionsIncluding: who owns our data if we leave, what happens during a ransomware incident, and whether your engineers actually live in our region.