Infrastructure audits, lifecycle plans, and forward budget forecasts. A written roadmap, with numbers. Standalone fixed-fee project, or the planning layer under a managed agreement.
An IT-strategy engagement produces a written roadmap covering five things: the current state of your infrastructure, your security posture, your backup and recovery plan, a lifecycle schedule for servers and workstations, and a forward budget with numbers against it. You get a document you can hand to your CFO, your board, or your auditor and have them actually use it.
The engagement runs as a standalone fixed-fee project. The deliverable is a roadmap that covers the whole environment, not a worksheet for one corner of it.
The first meeting is a sit-down about the business, not a tour of the server closet. What the company does, where it's growing, what's hurting this quarter. We'll come to you anywhere in DFW, or you come to us in Richardson. A strategy that starts from the business produces something your team will actually use.
90 min onsite or remote
We walk the infrastructure (servers, workstations, network gear, Microsoft 365 tenants, line-of-business apps, backups, security posture) and write it down. The kind of inventory you can hand to your next IT hire or your next auditor.
1–2 weeks fixed scope
We draft the map. Urgent fixes (a five-year-old firewall, a backup nobody has test-restored), next-quarter work, and three-year items. Security, backup, hardware, licensing, and the legacy systems everyone forgets until they break.
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1 week draft + review
The roadmap lands with a timeline, priorities, a summary of each initiative, and budgetary estimates for the major ones. A document that survives a CFO meeting, a board meeting, or a banker's questions, and runs against for the next year.
Final signed deliverable
Plenty of conversations start at a specific seam rather than the whole infrastructure.
A specific question, a specific deliverable. Faster to scope, faster to land, narrower in what it answers.
Single question scope
Fixed-fee project with a written deliverable: a memo, a short report, or a decision document you can circulate internally.
Fixed-fee project
Some clients engage 3T Pro for strategy work and stop there. They take the roadmap back to an internal IT team, or to another provider, and use it to plan their own next moves.
One-time project
The roadmap drives the quarterly work, lifecycle replacements get built into managed scope, and the budget forecast feeds the renewal conversation.
Standing cadence
Either path works, and the first call tells us which one fits, before another purchase gets made on instinct.
A Plano manufacturer with two sites and a Dallas law firm with one both get the same shape of engagement. What changes is the walk-through time.
A typical engagement runs a handful of working sessions over a few weeks. That covers time to walk the infrastructure, sit with the business side, draft the document, revise it with you, and land a final version. A scoped review is shorter. A full audit of a ten-site operation is longer. The first call sets a realistic timeline before anyone signs.
Typical · 4–6 weeks
I knew they could do it. It's how strategic partnerships operate.
When it came to equipping and supporting my sales team, I didn't need just an IT company. I needed a business partner who would be looking out for me.
The first call is a conversation. We'll tell you whether a full strategy review is the right shape, a scoped one is enough, or strategy isn't actually what you need right now.
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Our office is in Richardson, and we plan IT services for businesses across Dallas and Fort Worth. If you're looking for an IT consultant for a Plano office, bring the decisions you're facing: a lease ending, a server aging out, or a budget that keeps growing without a plan. We also work with teams in Garland, Arlington, and Irving. For a business with several DFW locations, the roadmap brings site connectivity, shared applications, equipment replacement, and IT support into one budget. The first conversation can be onsite or remote.
