Bantam builds IT departments from scratch for growing companies — identity, security, vendor management, and the boring fundamentals that keep a business running. Fixed scope, senior-only, no surprises.
1const engagement = await Bantam.run({2 phase: 'first-90-days',3 company: yourCompany,4 scope: ['identity', 'security', 'vendors'],5 guardrails: { fixedScope: true },6}); 7// → IT-readiness audit delivered8// → IAM + MFA rolled out live9// → Vendor + license inventory documented ✓ Your team, owning it.
Each pillar maps to a concrete engagement — so you always know what you are buying and what "done" looks like.
A structured look at how your company actually runs IT today — identity, devices, vendors, security posture, and the gaps nobody has had time to close. You leave with a prioritized roadmap.
We stand up the fundamentals — single sign-on, MFA, device baseline, vendor consolidation, and the documentation that makes the next hire's job easy.
Ongoing player-coach engagement for companies not ready for a full-time IT Director. Architectural decisions, hands-on execution, vendor wrangling — without another headcount.
Deliberate, senior, small engagements. We don't show up with a team of ten — we show up with one person who has done this before, and a written plan you can actually hold us to.
Interview the team, inventory tools, map how work actually happens.
Score gaps by business risk, compliance exposure, and how much pain they cause weekly.
Roll out the foundations — IAM, MFA, device baseline, vendor cleanup — with the team, not around them.
Document, hand off, and stand up the runbooks so the next person doesn't have to call us.
These aren't marketing lines — they show up as clauses in the SOW, security plan, and runbook documentation delivered with every engagement.
Scope, timeline, and deliverables defined up front. Change control is explicit — no silent scope creep, no open-ended retainers, no "we'll figure it out as we go."
Every engagement is shaped by what real incidents look like — MFA fatigue attacks, malware outbreaks, account compromises. We build for the day something goes wrong, not just the demo.
Runbooks, decision logs, and vendor inventories are deliverables, not afterthoughts. The goal is a self-sufficient team — not a permanent dependency on us.