Large consulting firms charge enterprise rates and staff your project with junior consultants. We charge fair rates and put senior practitioners on every engagement.
Big firms sell you on their name at the door, then assign a fresh graduate to your account. The partner who pitched the work disappears after kickoff. You're paying top-tier rates for entry-level execution.
Need a question answered? That's 0.25 hours. Changed your mind about scope? New change order. Large firms optimize for billable utilization, not your outcomes. Every interaction has a meter running behind it.
Your assessment looks identical to every other assessment they delivered that quarter. Same templates, same findings, same recommendations. Your environment is unique; your engagement should be too.
At a Big 4 firm, a $50K engagement barely registers. Your project gets deprioritized when a larger client needs attention. Your calls go unanswered. Your timeline slips. Nobody apologizes because nobody notices.
You're big enough to have real compliance obligations but not big enough to justify a dedicated security team. You need a partner who treats your engagement as a priority, not a rounding error on their quarterly revenue.
CMMC, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP. These aren't optional checkboxes. They're contract requirements with real consequences. You need practitioners who understand the federal compliance landscape, not a firm that treats it as a specialty surcharge.
You've seen the deliverables that large firms produce: exhaustive documents that nobody reads, filled with generic recommendations that nobody implements. You need actionable output that actually moves your security posture forward.
Methodology rigor doesn't change because the firm is smaller. We follow NIST. We document everything. Our deliverables are audit-ready, and our controls implementations are production-grade. The difference is you get the same quality of work without the overhead that comes from supporting a global firm's office leases, partner compensation, and marketing budget.
Smaller firm. Same standards. Better experience. Lower cost.
Talk to us directly. No sales team, no account managers, no handoffs. The person on the call is the person who does the work.