IT services
What to run in-house, what to buy, and which vendor is actually accountable. Stack choices, security hygiene, and a support model that does not steal time from hosting.
Nyaguda Advisory
Consultancy you can execute — IT, storage, data, applications, and the business around them.
We sell written advice first: what to run, where to keep it, who owns it, and how to charge for it. Implementation and hosting stay on their own meters. If the plan needs a website, a Work app, or a VPS, those are separate SKUs — not buried inside a day rate.
Practice areas
Six desks. Pick one for a Brief. Combine them in a Sprint or a Practice plan.
Storage
VPS disk versus object storage, published quotas, cost per gigabyte, and when to stop pretending leftover NVMe is a product.
Data
What to keep, for how long, who owns it, and whether last month’s backup has ever been restored. Archives, working sets, and offboarding paths.
Data-center data services
When a VPS is enough, when colocation or a data-center provider is the right move, and how to read the bill. We advise. We do not operate a data center.
Application IT
What belongs in the app, the API, the admin, and the database. Store binaries versus a PWA. How to keep a mobile product maintainable without enterprise theatre.
Building an IT business
Packaging, meters, attach rate, capacity, and a 12-month operating plan. For founders who want an IT company that can be invoiced — not a freelance habit.
How an Advisory engagement works
Same commercial shape as a build: scope, written order, deliverable, then optional retainer. Advice does not include free implementation.
- Name the question — IT, storage, data, a data-center decision, an app, or the business itself.
- Choose a Brief, a Sprint, or a Practice plan. You get a written pack you can execute.
- If the plan needs hosting, storage, backups, or Nyaguda Work, those are quoted as their own SKUs.
- Stay on a monthly Advisory retainer if you want a named person on the calendar.
Project packages
Fixed quote after a short discovery call. Launch starting points, not a contract until written.
Advisory Brief
$800–$1,500 project
- One practice area
- About one week
- Written memo and recommendation
- One review call
- Best for a single decision
Advisory Sprint
$2,400–$4,500 project
- One or two practice areas
- Two to three weeks
- Workshop + written operating plan
- Costed meters and vendor shortlist
- Best for a stack or data decision
Advisory Practice
$6,000–$12,000 project
- Three or more practice areas
- Four to six weeks
- Full IT / data / commercial plan
- Includes “build an IT business” track if asked
- Best for a new or repositioning company
Monthly Advisory retainers
Scheduled advice. Different from a support retainer, which buys tickets when something breaks. Hours unused in a month do not roll unless the contract says so.
Advisory Desk
$400 / month
- 4 included hours
- Weekday async
- One practice area
- Next-business-day replies
Advisory Partner
$800 / month
- 8 included hours
- One working session per month
- Two practice areas
- Priority in the weekday queue
Advisory Counsel
$1,500 / month
- 16 included hours
- Two working sessions per month
- Full practice catalog
- Written notes after each session
Add-ons on the same meters
| Item | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Consulting hour | $75–$150 / hour | The meter under every Advisory pack. Extra hours billed here. |
| Vendor or platform review | Brief or hourly | VPS, colo, or object-storage shortlist. |
| Data-center decision memo | Brief or Sprint | Colo vs VPS vs object storage. We do not sell rack space. |
| IT business operating plan | Sprint or Practice | SKUs, meters, attach rate, capacity, 12-month path. |
| Support retainer | From $400 / month | Tickets and restores — not strategy. Keep it on a separate line. |
| Website, Work, or hosting | Existing SKUs | Advice can recommend them. It does not include them. |
Advisory hours are never “included free” inside hosting. That is how consulting stays solvent and how a finance person can tell advice from operations.
Who this is for
Operators who need a decision
You have a host, a pile of files, or an app idea, and you need someone to say what to do next — in writing — without hiring a department.
Founders building an IT company
You want meters, SKUs, and a capacity rule, not a motivational workshop. We use the same model we run: implementation today, operations every month.