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The grown-up answer to “should we be using AI?”

Every major AI platform — Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude for Work, Gemini, and the specialized vertical tools — plus the governance, policy, and training that keep your people safe while they use it. We're tool-agnostic; we recommend whatever actually fits your workflow and compliance posture.

Who this is for

Houston businesses whose people are already using AI — whether leadership knows it or not. Especially clients in Healthcare, Professional Services, and regulated industries where an employee pasting the wrong thing into ChatGPT becomes a compliance problem fast.

What’s included

The full picture.

ServiceWhat’s includedBenefit
AI Readiness AssessmentUse-case mapping, data-sensitivity review, licensing analysis, ROI framing, risk registerYou stop making AI decisions based on a vendor pitch and start making them based on your actual workflows
AI Platform DeploymentTool selection across Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude for Work, Gemini, and vertical tools; licensing, environment prep, rollout waves, user training, post-deploy reviewThe right AI gets picked for the job and actually gets used — not three overlapping SKUs sitting idle
AI Security & GovernanceDLP for AI tools, Purview configuration, data classification, guardrails for regulated data (PHI, PII, CUI)Your people can be productive with AI without putting protected data in front of a public model
Shadow AI DiscoveryAudit of which AI tools are already in use across your org, account and subscription inventory, risk scoringYou find out what's already happening before it shows up in an audit finding
AI Acceptable Use PolicyWritten policy tailored to your industry (HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2), employee acknowledgement workflow, incident-response addendumClear rules your team can actually follow — and defensible documentation if regulators come asking
Employee AI TrainingRole-based sessions (leadership, ops, clinical, legal), what-to-do-and-not-do playbooks, hands-on examplesYour team uses AI confidently and stops pasting sensitive content where it doesn't belong

The details

What each piece actually looks like.

AI Readiness Assessment

A structured look at what AI can do for your business, where the risk sits, and what it actually costs.

Before you buy licenses for everyone, we sit down with your leadership and operations people and map the real workflows. Which tasks waste the most time? Which ones touch regulated data? Which tools are already being used off-the-books? You walk out with a written report: concrete use cases, a matched tool recommendation from across the major AI platforms, risk register, licensing math, and a phased roadmap.

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AI Platform Deployment

Any AI platform — Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude for Work, Gemini, vertical tools — licensed right, permissioned right, and actually adopted by your team.

Most AI rollouts fail because nobody prepared the environment first or picked the wrong tool for the job. We use every major platform in-house — we're not a Microsoft-only shop — so the recommendation comes from real experience, not a partner badge. Whether it's Copilot on your M365 tenant, ChatGPT Enterprise for a legal team, Claude for Work for document-heavy analysis, Gemini for a Google-centric shop, or a vertical tool built for your industry, we handle the full deployment: licensing, environment prep, permissions, policy alignment, rollout waves, and the training that makes it stick.

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AI Security & Governance

The guardrails that keep regulated data from showing up in a public AI model.

Whether or not you've officially deployed AI, your employees are already using it. The question is whether your guardrails can keep PHI, PII, CUI, or client-confidential data from leaking into a prompt history you don't control. We deploy data loss prevention for AI tools, configure Purview for AI-aware classification, and write the incident-response plan for the day something slips through.

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Shadow AI Discovery

Find out which AI tools your people are already using — before a regulator or client does.

Every organization we audit has more AI in the building than leadership realizes. A free ChatGPT account linked to a personal Gmail. A browser extension that summarizes the meeting. An automation tool somebody connected to your CRM. We run a structured discovery: subscription audit, browser telemetry, network signals, user interviews. You get a ranked inventory with risk scores and remediation steps.

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AI Acceptable Use Policy

Plain-English rules that your team will actually follow — and that your auditor can point to.

Policy templates you download from the internet don't fit your industry and don't address the real risks your employees are facing. We write yours — tailored to HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, or whatever framework you live under — in language your people can read. Paired with an acknowledgement workflow so you have a record of who signed it.

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Employee AI Training

Your people use AI every day — this is how they use it well and safely.

Live, role-appropriate training sessions. Leadership gets a different session than operations, which gets a different session than clinical or legal. We cover the do's, the don'ts, prompt techniques that actually help, and the red lines tied to your written policy. Each session is recorded and delivered as an internal library your new hires can use.

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Related case study

Healthcare

Woodlands Family Psychiatry

HIPAA posture across multiple locations, nine clinicians, and clinical-trial data.

Multi-location psychiatric practice in Spring and Conroe. Mako runs the IT that keeps patient portals up, PHI protected, and clinical-trial infrastructure compliant.

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How switching works

Four steps. No disruption.

The #1 reason businesses stay with a bad MSP is the fear of switching. Here’s how we make that fear unfounded.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We learn your environment, your people, and your real pain points. No sales-team script — actual technical conversation.

  2. 02

    Plan

    We audit and deliver a written plan — what stays, what gets replaced, what gets hardened, what the monthly number looks like. No surprises.

  3. 03

    Transition

    We take over day-to-day without disrupting your work. Your current provider's runbook, your access, your vendor relationships — we document every piece before anything changes hands.

  4. 04

    Running

    Proactive support, 24/7 monitoring, quarterly strategy reviews. Your people call, a real person answers. Typically 2–4 weeks from signed agreement to fully operational.

Typical timeline from signed agreement to fully operational: 2–4 weeks. We document everything so if you ever leave, the next provider picks up without starting over.

FAQ

AI Services — common questions.

We're just a small shop — is this even relevant to us?+

Especially. A 20-person firm with no written AI policy is exactly the profile that gets burned when an employee pastes a client matter into ChatGPT. The smaller the team, the less margin for one bad move.

Do you resell AI licenses?+

Where we have a partner relationship we can procure licenses for administrative convenience. More importantly, we use every major AI platform in-house every day — Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude for Work, Gemini, agent platforms, and several vertical tools. Our recommendations come from real usage, not a vendor relationship. We don't take spiffs.

We already have IT in-house — do we need you for this?+

Often it's a co-managed fit: your internal team runs day-to-day, we come in on the AI governance and deployment pieces. The compliance-heavy lifting tends to sit outside a typical internal IT scope.

How is this different from just hiring an AI consultant?+

Most AI consultants don't understand your IT stack, your compliance regime, or your actual data flows. We do both sides. That's the point of an MSP-led AI engagement.

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