Enterprise-Grade Services. Small Business Pricing.
Every service is designed to produce measurable business outcomes, not just deliverables.
How Every Engagement Works
Regardless of where you start, every BlackForge engagement follows the same three-phase model:
Discover
Automated + manual assessment of your current state.
Educate
ROI modeling and prioritized roadmap presentation.
Transform
Implementation, training, and performance measurement.
The Whole Engagement, Start to Finish
No mystery and no scope creep. This is the full path, including the points where you decide whether to continue.
It starts free: the 6-minute self-assessment and a 30-minute discovery call. If there's a fit, Phase 1 begins.
Discover
Weeks 1–3
Establish the facts
- Kickoff: your goals, constraints, and what success means in numbers
- Automated technical assessment (15 minutes of your time)
- Security and compliance posture review
- Competitive benchmarking against your local market
- Staff workflow review: where the hours actually go
What you get
A findings inventory: what's solid, what's exposed, and what it's costing you
Educate
Weeks 3–5
Turn findings into a business case
- ROI modeling built from your real numbers, not industry averages
- Prioritized roadmap: sequence, cost, and expected impact per initiative
- One quick win implemented immediately, so you see results before deciding anything
- 90-minute executive presentation, with a 30-day follow-up
What you get
A 12-month transformation roadmap that you own, whoever executes it
Your call
Decision point: you choose what to do, in what order, and with whom. The roadmap is yours either way.
Transform
Months 2–12
Execute and measure
- Implementation in 90-day increments, highest-impact items first
- Staff training and change management with every rollout
- Monthly measurement against the KPIs set in Phase 2
- Course corrections as your business responds
What you get
Working systems and measured results, not a binder
Your call
Decision point at every 90-day mark: continue, pause, or hand off to your team. Ongoing advisory is optional beyond that.
Technical Assessment Platform
15 minutes of input. Weeks of insight.
Our automated assessment platform analyzes your business across five critical dimensions, in a fraction of the time a traditional IT audit would take.
What We Analyze
Microsoft 365 Security Posture
Full analysis of your O365 environment: user permissions, MFA status, email security, data loss prevention, and compliance configurations.
External Perimeter Scanning
We scan your public-facing attack surface the same way a threat actor would, exposing vulnerabilities before someone exploits them.
Compliance Gap Analysis
For healthcare, legal, and financial firms: we map your current state against HIPAA, SOC 2, or applicable frameworks and quantify the gap.
Competitive Benchmarking
We compare your digital presence, online authority, and technology stack against your top local competitors, with specific data.
ROI Financial Modeling
Every finding is tied to a dollar amount: either revenue opportunity or breach-cost exposure. You see the financial case for every recommendation.
PCI DSS Compliance Assessment
Know your obligations. File with confidence.
Any business that accepts credit or debit card payments is required to complete an annual PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire. There are nine different SAQ forms, and choosing the wrong one or answering it incorrectly carries real liability. Our step-by-step assessment guides you from scoping your cardholder data environment through generating your official filing package, with expert advisor review available.
What's Included
- SAQ type identification across all 9 PCI DSS v4.0.1 forms
- Simplified compliance questionnaire with plain-English guidance and examples
- Personalized gap report with remediation priorities and impact
- Completion Kit: remediation plan, evidence checklist, and official filing steps
- Attestation of Compliance (AoC) signing guide
- Optional: guided review session with a BlackForge compliance advisor
Plans
Self-Service
$199 / year
Full assessment and Completion Kit, at your own pace
Guided Assessment
$599 one-time
Everything above plus a BlackForge advisor review and written remediation roadmap
Business Transformation Consulting
What implementation actually looks like.
Healthcare Practices
- Patient acquisition funnel build-out and SEO optimization
- Automated appointment reminders and no-show reduction systems
- HIPAA-compliant communication and document management
- Practice management system integration and workflow automation
Professional Services
- Digital authority building and long-tail SEO campaigns
- Automated client intake and onboarding workflows
- Secure client portal and document management implementation
- Business intelligence dashboards for firm performance
Service Contractors
- Online booking and 24/7 lead capture systems
- Route optimization and dispatch automation
- Mobile invoicing and payment collection
- Automated review generation and reputation management
Ongoing Strategic Advisory
For businesses that want a permanent technology advantage.
Our monthly advisory relationships give you a senior technology strategist without the cost of a full-time CTO. You get continuous monitoring, roadmap execution, and first-call access when technology decisions arise.
What's Included
- Monthly technology and performance review
- Continuous security monitoring and threat response
- Technology roadmap updates as your business evolves
- Market expansion and competitive response planning
- Priority access: no waiting weeks for a response
The Quick Win Promise
Every Foundation Assessment includes one immediate implementation, chosen based on what your business needs most. Examples by industry:
Healthcare
Automated appointment reminder sequence deployed and measured within the first 30 days.
Professional Services
Google Business Profile optimization and review generation system live within the first 30 days.
Contractors
Online booking widget installed on your website and capturing leads within the first 30 days.
Ready to See What's Possible?
Schedule a free 30-minute discovery call and get a clear picture of where your business stands, and where it could go.