Thirty people, two brands, and no one whose job is the technology. This puts a team on it for a fixed monthly fee, sized to a company your size, cancellable any month.
The question is not whether technology costs money. You are already paying for it. The question is what you get back.
The middle column uses a $60,000 salary and statutory employer taxes only. Add health coverage and it climbs. You can put your own numbers into the calculator below, including your real benefit costs, and see where it lands for you.
Every tier is the same team and the same terms. What changes is how much building we do alongside the advice. Start at the bottom and move when it earns the move.
Billed as professional services. Month to month, no term, no notice period, cancel at the end of any month. Move up or down a tier whenever you want, effective the following month. Anything larger than the monthly build gets scoped and quoted on its own before anyone touches it.
Nothing here is pre-filled from anything we know about your payroll. Put in what you actually pay and see what the comparison looks like.
Only the Podium figure is pre-filled, because your team told us that one in the meeting. Fill in whatever else belongs on the list.
Change any of these. The salary starts at $60,000 because that is a realistic number for this role in this market, not because we know what anyone here was paid.
The part that does not favor us, said plainly. That hire costs about $34 for every working hour, and we cost more per hour than that. Anyone comparing hourly rates should pick the employee. The reason we still come out ahead is that a company your size does not have 1,896 hours of technology work in a year. It has a few hundred hours of work and a handful of decisions that are expensive to get wrong. You just spent two years paying for what happens when nobody senior is checking those decisions. That is the gap we are priced against, not the hourly rate.
You set the order. This is the work as it stands today, based on what your team walked us through.
Your systems person was the admin on nearly everything and he is gone. Luke has already started reclaiming Zoho. We take the rest, so the company holds its own keys rather than a former employee holding them.
Your team described two routine upgrades that each quietly re-upped the Podium contract for another year. That is the specific trap this prevents, for every subscription on your list.
You are mid-flight on Zoho Projects and FSM, and you told us the real problem is habits rather than software. We agree. Support the habit, do not replace the system.
The lead flow Simon and Alex built is genuinely good work. It gets cheaper to run and connected to the rest of the company. It does not get rebuilt.
You should know this before you read a single recommendation from us. We sell a platform called LayerOne, and it can replace some of what you are paying for now. That is a conflict of interest, so here is how we handle it.
You just lived through what happens when one person holds everything. We are not going to recreate that and then charge you for it. You get a named lead who knows your account and the DropDev team behind them, so a vacation, a sick week, or a busy month does not stop your work. Everything we learn about your systems gets written down in your documentation, in your accounts, so it stays yours whether or not you keep working with us.
We are not the people to call about a jammed printer, a forgotten password, or a laptop that will not boot. That is genuinely a different job and pretending otherwise would waste your money. What we do is own the decisions, the connections between systems, and the security posture, and build the things that are missing. If you later need someone on site for hardware, we will tell you and help you find them locally.
Type it here and it lands on David's phone. No account, no login, and no waiting for a meeting to get an answer.
No setup fee and no term. If it stops being worth the money, cancel at the end of any month.
Selected: Essentials, $2,500 a month