Book Your Free 30-Minute IT Assessment
Thirty minutes with CRC Cloud’s CEO — the owner, not a salesperson. We walk your environment together (headcount, servers, endpoints, key vendors, and how IT and security are handled today), and you leave with a clear read on your posture, and a written quote follows within one business day. It follows the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 — a real assessment, not a pitch.
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What one call covers
- A plain-English read on your setup — where you’re solid, where you’re exposed, based on what you tell us. No software installs.
- A cost benchmark against our published pricing ($125–$335 per user/month) and 2026 SoCal market rates.
- Answers to your actual questions — insurance forms, an aging server, a suspicious email, a renewal you’re unsure about.
- Two or three quick wins you can act on this week — yours to keep either way.
Pick a time
You’ll be talking to Mike Parker — CEO and owner
Not a sales development rep, not a junior engineer reading a script. The person who owns the company takes the call, reads your environment, and tells you what he actually sees — including when the honest answer is that you don’t need us yet.
Choose a slot that works and it’s confirmed instantly — the invite lands on your calendar and ours, with the call details included. No back-and-forth email chain.
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Prefer to talk now? Call (949) 916-6444 or send us a short note. Not ready to book? Take the 60-second fit quiz — five questions, no email required.
What happens after you book
- You get a confirmation with the call link and a one-line agenda.
- We talk for 30 minutes. CRC Cloud’s CEO walks your environment with you — users, servers, vendors, cloud — and you get real numbers.
- You get a written quote within one business day, built from what you told us and confirmed at onboarding.
- You decide what’s next. If you want a fixed quote from a documented look at your environment first, paid IT discovery is optional — a published fee, paid up front and not refundable unless we haven’t delivered within 45 days after you give us access, credited in full against your first invoice if you sign within 60 days of receiving the report. What it produces, and what it costs by the size of your environment, are below. You keep all of it either way.
What the IT discovery actually produces
Most providers’ “assessments” scan the network and hand back a findings list. Published guides put a formal IT or security audit in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on size and scope. Ours is not an audit, but it is a real engagement, priced at the low end on purpose — a fixed, published fee set by the size of your environment — and it covers the part almost nobody documents: the commercial layer, where small businesses actually bleed money.
- A written inventory of everything we find or you tell us about. Every computer, server, firewall, switch, access point, phone and printer — plus every account, license, subscription and vendor. Most businesses have never seen theirs written down in one place.
- A schematic of each office and a bird’s-eye view of the whole stack. What connects to what, where your data actually lives, and what stops working if any one piece fails.
- The commercial layer, mapped. Contracts, leases, warranties, licenses and cloud subscriptions — what you’re paying for, what renews when, what auto-renews, and what you’re paying for twice. This is the section clients tell us paid for the engagement by itself.
- A cybersecurity posture read. Where you’re exposed, ranked by what would hurt most, with what it would take to close each gap.
- Immediate needs and an upgrade path. What is genuinely urgent, what can wait a budget cycle, and what is fine as it is — separated, so you can plan instead of react.
- A fixed written quote, priced off the published rate card on this site and good for 30 days: our own prices won’t change because of anything the discovery found, and licenses and hardware are at the vendor’s price when ordered.
It’s yours outright. Take it to another provider if you like — it will make their quote more honest too. And it’s credited in full against your first invoice if you sign within 60 days of receiving the report, so the net cost of finding out is $0.
What the discovery costs — published, by environment
Priced to the size and shape of your environment, the same way everything else on our rate card is. Every tier is credited in full against your first invoice if you sign within 60 days of receiving the report, so if you hire us the discovery is free and if you don’t, you keep a document worth far more than you paid. The fee is paid before we start and isn’t refundable unless we haven’t delivered within 45 days after you give us access, and the work runs under a one-page discovery agreement you sign first. The report usually comes within 10 business days after you give us access, or 15 for the Complex tier — a target, not a guarantee.
| Tier | Your environment | Fixed fee |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | One site or none, no on-premises servers, 25 users or fewer | $1,500 |
| Standard | Two sites, one or two on-premises servers, or 26 to 50 users | $2,500 |
| Complex | Three or more sites, three or more on-premises servers, or more than 50 users (to 75) | $4,500 |
Size decides the tier. It is set by sites, on-premises servers and headcount — things you can count yourself before you pay. If your environment matches more than one line, the higher tier applies. A regulated environment does not change the tier: it adds the same published compliance uplift you pay on Secure IT, the floor for every regulated client (HIPAA +15%, legal +10%, and so on), because the extra evidence work is proportional to the environment, not a flat penalty for being regulated.
Complex adds a compliance-gap read against the framework that governs you, a schematic for every site, and a phased remediation roadmap. Larger than 75 people, or genuinely unusual? We scope it the same way and put the fee in writing before any work begins — no surprises.
The no-obligation promise
No pitch deck. No pressure. No “special pricing that expires Friday” — our pricing is public, and the only discounts are the published ones, open to anyone who qualifies. We’ll lay out options and honest numbers; the decision stays yours. It’s how we’d want to be treated, so it’s how we run the call.
Want to get the most from the call?
Nothing is required, but if you have them handy, these sharpen the benchmark:
- Rough headcount and number of locations
- Who handles IT today (provider, staff member, “whoever’s free”)
- Your biggest recurring annoyance
- Any renewal dates — IT contract, cyber insurance, expiring hardware
FAQ
Is the IT assessment really free? What’s the catch?
Really free, and there isn’t one. Thirty minutes on the phone costs us little and starts relationships well. Some calls become clients; plenty just leave with better questions for their current provider. Both are fine with us.
Who will I actually talk to?
The owner — CRC Cloud’s CEO, an engineer who can answer technical questions on the spot. Not a commissioned salesperson reading a script.
Do I need to prepare anything?
No. Headcount and a sense of your current setup are enough. If you have a specific worry — an insurance questionnaire, a strange email, a server making noises — bring it.
Will you try to sell me something?
We’ll show you our published pricing and where you’d fit, if you ask. That’s the extent of it. Options, not ultimatums — you decide, on your timeline.
Is this a security audit? Someone told us we need a cloud security audit.
No — and the difference is the part that protects you. An audit is a formal examination by an independent third party with no stake in the outcome: a QSA for PCI, a CPA firm for SOC 2, an independent firm for penetration testing. CRC Cloud does not perform those and never will, because the provider who builds and runs your controls cannot credibly grade its own work. What this call does is the step that comes first: we read your posture against the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, show you where the gaps actually are, and tell you plainly whether what you need is an audit, a penetration test, or simply a fix. If it is an audit, we get your environment and your evidence ready for the firm that performs it, so their review starts from organized records rather than a discovery exercise. Align, implement and prepare — never certify.
We already have an IT provider. Is this still useful?
Especially then. You’ll get a second, outside benchmark of your costs and coverage against our published rates — useful at renewal, and only fair to your current provider to know. We also work alongside existing IT teams in co-managed arrangements.
Can the assessment happen on-site instead?
The 30-minute phone call comes first — it respects your time and gives us the core picture, and a written quote against our published rates follows within one business day. If you want a fixed quote from a documented look at your environment before you sign, paid IT discovery is optional. It is a published fee by the size of your environment ($1,500 to $4,500, usually on-site; the tiers are on this page), paid up front and not refundable unless we haven’t delivered within 45 days after you give us access, and credited in full against your first invoice if you sign within 60 days of receiving the report. The report usually comes within 10 business days after you give us access, or 15 for the Complex tier — a target, not a guarantee.
