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
- I read it myself and get back to you to set up a short conversation — phone or email, whichever you gave me.
- 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.
- If an assessment makes sense, I quote a fixed price for it before I start. No surprises.
- 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.
- 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.