Straight answers on AI, security and IT spend
Written for owners and operations managers who have to make the call, not for engineers. Frameworks and arithmetic you can apply to your own numbers — no vendor pitches.
Building an IT Budget for a 10–100 Person Business
How to structure an IT budget when you do not have a CIO: what belongs in it, how to sanity-check the total, and which line items are genuinely optional.
What you will take away
- —Split IT spend into Run, Protect, Replace and Improve — only Improve is truly discretionary.
- —Track your own cost per employee per month over time rather than chasing external benchmarks.
- —Normalise every managed IT quote to per-user-per-month, and read the exclusions list first.
The Cyber Threats Actually Hitting Small Businesses — and What Stops Them
The attacks small and mid-sized businesses actually face, why the usual advice misses, and the specific controls that stop each one. Written for owners and ops managers, not security teams.
How to Calculate AI Automation ROI Before You Spend a Dollar
A practical framework for working out whether an AI automation project pays for itself — the arithmetic, the costs people forget, and the workflows that never justify it.
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