MCT Systems

Assessment

Request an assessment

An assessment is a written, honest picture of what you have, what depends on what, and what would stop you if it failed. It starts with a conversation and has a fixed price quoted before I begin.

What happens after you send this

  1. I read it myself and get back to you to set up a short conversation — phone or email, whichever you gave me.
  2. You and I talk for twenty or thirty minutes about what you have and what worries you. If what you need is really a house call, I say so and point you at My Computer Therapy.
  3. If an assessment makes sense, I quote a fixed price for it before I start. No surprises.
  4. I look at what is actually there and write it down in plain words: every device, every service you depend on, every single point of failure.
  5. You get the written result — yours to keep, whether or not you go on to a build.

What an assessment covers

  • The network: coverage, what is wired, what is not, what can see what.
  • The uplink: what you have, what it blocks, what happens when it drops.
  • The machines and the services on them — and the services you rent, and what each one costs you if it disappears.
  • Backups: whether they exist, whether they have ever been restored.
  • Power: what has a battery, what does not, what comes back on its own.
  • The plan, if any, for the day something fails.

What it is not

It is not a sales visit and it does not oblige you to anything. Plenty of assessments end with “keep what you have, fix these two things,” and that is a good outcome.