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Project-Based Technology Engagements Across Texas

An IT Consulting Firm for Defined Projects, Not Open-Ended Retainers

Project-based IT consulting exists for a specific decision or a specific outcome: a migration that has to happen, an audit you have to pass, an acquisition closing in ninety days, or an environment nobody has honestly assessed in years. LayerLogix runs that work as defined engagements with a written scope, a fixed set of deliverables, a timeline, and an end date. Typical projects include IT assessments and infrastructure audits, Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, security posture reviews with remediation planning, HIPAA and CMMC and PCI readiness, vendor and software selection, M&A due diligence and post-merger integration, office moves and network design, and disaster recovery planning. What you own at the end is the point: current-state documentation, a risk register, a prioritized roadmap with costs attached, and a recommendation you can defend to a board, an insurer, or an auditor. Implementation is available and is always a separate decision.

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What We Offer

Comprehensive solutions tailored for Houston-area businesses

IT Assessment and Infrastructure Audit

A structured review of what you actually have: network, servers, endpoints, identity, licensing, backups, and vendor contracts. We document current state, measure it against where the business is heading, and score every gap by risk and cost to fix. You finish the engagement with an asset inventory, network diagrams, a written findings report, and a prioritized roadmap that separates what to do in the next 90 days from what belongs in next fiscal year.

Cloud Migration Planning and Execution

Microsoft 365 and Azure migrations, on-premises server retirement, file shares moved to SharePoint or OneDrive, and tenant consolidation after an acquisition. We inventory workloads, map dependencies, confirm the destination fits your licensing position, and build a cutover plan with a pilot group and documented rollback steps. Execution is scheduled around your business calendar, so finance is not migrating mailboxes during close week and the warehouse is not offline during a shipping peak.

Security Assessment and Remediation Planning

An evidence-based posture review covering identity and MFA coverage, privileged access, endpoint protection, patch levels, email security, network segmentation, logging, and whether backups can actually be restored. Findings go into a risk register with likelihood, impact, and a named owner rather than a vague letter grade. The deliverable is a sequenced remediation plan that distinguishes the items to fix this month from the ones that need a budget cycle and a project of their own.

Compliance Readiness Projects

HIPAA, CMMC and NIST 800-171, PCI DSS, and the FTC Safeguards Rule. We scope which systems fall inside the boundary and which can be carved out, run a control-by-control gap analysis, and produce the artifacts auditors and prime contractors ask for: written policies, a System Security Plan, a POA&M with dates and owners, and evidence that the technical controls exist. The result is a defensible position and a realistic timeline instead of a checkbox exercise.

Vendor and Software Selection

ERP and line-of-business applications, phone systems, internet circuits, backup platforms, and security tooling. We write the requirements with the people who will use the system, build a scored shortlist, run structured demos against your real scenarios, and check references that the vendor did not hand you. We also review contract terms, auto-renewal language, data ownership, and exit clauses before signature. Recommendations are vendor-neutral and scored against written criteria you keep.

M&A IT Due Diligence and Post-Merger Integration

Before the deal closes: what the target actually runs, what it owes in licensing, what technical debt and security exposure the buyer inherits, and what integration will realistically cost. After it closes: domain and tenant consolidation, identity merges, application rationalization, and a retirement plan for duplicate systems. Deal teams get a written diligence report they can price risk against, and integration work sequenced so day-one operations for both companies keep running.

Office Moves, Network Design, and Buildouts

A new suite, a second location, or a warehouse coming online. We design the network and wireless coverage for the actual floor plan, specify cabling and rack layout, coordinate circuits with carriers so connectivity is live and tested before the furniture arrives, and plan the physical move of servers, phones, and workstations. Everything runs to a dated cutover plan with a defined point of no return and a fallback that has been tested, not assumed.

Disaster Recovery and Continuity Planning

We set recovery time and recovery point objectives with the people who own each business process, then test whether your current backups can actually meet them. Frequently they cannot, and nobody knew. The engagement produces a written recovery runbook, a real restore test with documented results and timings, a continuity plan that covers people and facilities alongside systems, and a gap list showing exactly what must change to hit the objectives you agreed to.

Why Choose LayerLogix?

Serving businesses throughout the Greater Houston area including Houston, The Woodlands, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Sugar Land.

A Defined Scope and a Real End Date

Every engagement starts with a written statement of work: the question being answered, the deliverables, the timeline, and the price, all agreed before anyone touches a system. You are buying a finished piece of work, not an open-ended retainer that quietly renews.

You Own Everything We Produce

The documentation, network diagrams, asset inventory, risk register, roadmap, and written recommendations are yours to keep. They stay useful whether you implement with us, with your internal team, or with a provider you already have. Nothing is held hostage in a portal you lose access to.

Advice From People Who Operate Systems

With 20+ years of experience and 100% Texas-based support, the recommendations come from the same people who design, build, and run production environments. That tends to produce plans that survive contact with a real migration weekend rather than plans that only work on a slide.

No Obligation to Buy the Implementation

A consulting engagement is complete when the deliverable is delivered. If you want us to execute the roadmap, we can. If you want to hand it to your internal team or take it out to bid, the documentation is written so somebody else can pick it up and run with it.

Decisions You Can Defend

Boards, lenders, insurers, auditors, and prime contractors all ask the same question: how do you know. A written assessment with evidence, scoring, and a dated plan answers it. That matters at cyber insurance renewal, in a compliance audit, and in any conversation where a capital request needs justification.

Our Process

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Scoping call to define the exact question the engagement must answer and what the finished deliverable looks like
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Written statement of work with fixed scope, timeline, deliverables, and price agreed before any work begins
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Discovery through interviews with your team plus hands-on review of systems, contracts, and existing documentation
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Current-state documentation: asset inventory, network diagrams, licensing position, and configuration baseline
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Gap analysis measuring what exists against your business goals, risk tolerance, and any regulatory obligations
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Findings and prioritized recommendations, with every item scored by risk, effort, cost, and dependency order
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Readout session with your leadership team, in business language, with time to challenge the conclusions
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Handover of all deliverables and documentation into your own systems, in editable formats you control
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Optional implementation by our team, or a clean handoff to your internal staff or existing IT provider

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between IT consulting and managed IT services?
IT consulting is project work with a beginning, a deliverable, and an end. You hire a consulting firm to answer a specific question or complete a defined outcome: assess the environment, plan the migration, get audit-ready, evaluate the acquisition. Managed IT services are ongoing operations billed monthly: help desk, monitoring, patching, backups, and security run continuously for as long as the agreement lasts. Consulting decides what should happen; managed services keep it running afterward. Many organizations buy a consulting engagement first, then decide whether ongoing support belongs in-house or outsourced.
How much does IT consulting cost?
Across the industry, independent IT consultants commonly bill in the range of roughly 100 to 250 dollars per hour, and consulting firms in the roughly 150 to 350 dollar per hour band depending on seniority and market. Fixed-scope work is more common than hourly: a focused assessment or readiness project for a small or mid-sized business typically lands somewhere between the low thousands and the low five figures nationally, driven by environment size, number of sites, and how much documentation exists already. Those are typical market rates, not a quote. We scope your engagement and price it in writing before starting.
What do we actually receive at the end of an engagement?
Documents you own, in editable formats, not a verbal summary. Depending on the engagement that means an asset inventory and network diagrams, a current-state findings report, a risk register scoring each issue by likelihood and impact with a named owner, a prioritized roadmap with cost estimates and suggested sequencing, and any project-specific artifacts such as a migration runbook, a System Security Plan and POA&M, a scored vendor comparison, or a tested recovery plan. There is also a readout session where your leadership team can challenge the findings before anything is finalized.
How long does a typical IT consulting engagement take?
Most defined-scope engagements run two to eight weeks from kickoff to readout. A focused assessment of a single-site environment can finish in two to three weeks. Compliance readiness, multi-site infrastructure audits, and M&A diligence generally take longer because they depend on evidence collection and on interview time with people who have day jobs. Implementation phases such as a cloud migration or an office buildout are scoped separately and driven by lead times for circuits, hardware, and licensing. The statement of work names the dates, and delays usually come from access and scheduling rather than from the technical work.
Do we have to hire you to implement the recommendations?
No. The engagement is complete when the deliverables are handed over, and they are written so that any competent team can execute them. Some clients implement with their internal staff, some take the roadmap out to bid, and some keep their current provider and simply use the assessment to hold that relationship to a standard. If you do want us to execute, that is quoted as a separate project or moves into an ongoing agreement. Keeping those decisions separate is deliberate, because an assessment written to sell the next phase is not worth much.
When is a consulting project the wrong choice for us?
When the real problem is continuous rather than finite. If tickets are going unanswered and nobody is patching or monitoring anything, you need ongoing managed IT support, not a report. If the gap is that no one owns technology decisions between fires, and you need someone in the leadership seat quarter after quarter, that is a fractional CIO relationship rather than a project. Consulting is the right instrument when there is a specific decision to make, a specific event to prepare for, or an environment that has never been honestly documented.
Do you provide IT consulting services in Houston and across Texas?
Yes. LayerLogix is headquartered at 2001 Timberloch Place in The Woodlands, TX 77380, and delivers consulting engagements throughout Greater Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and the surrounding Texas markets, with on-site discovery for any engagement that needs eyes on the equipment. Support is 100% Texas-based, with business-hours availability and after-hours emergency response during cutovers and migrations. Call 713-571-2390 for Houston and The Woodlands, 214-617-2370 for Dallas and Fort Worth, or 512-829-1981 for Austin to scope an engagement.

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