The Tech Guy · Sunshine Coast

Your business runs on technology nobody holds.

The domain, the mail, the accounts, the licences, the machines. When the person who set it up leaves, retires, or was never really appointed, the work doesn’t stop. It just stops being anybody’s.

Noosa to Caloundra, with no call-out fee. Remote support anywhere in Australia.

Scam, break-in or a strange login? Get help with cyber security.

Three shapes this usually takes.

Simplifying

You're paying for more technology than the business still uses. Licences nobody uses, accounts nobody can open, a previous provider still holding something. The work now is to make the picture small enough to hold.

Getting established

Revenue is arriving through systems nobody owns. Payments are live, mail on the domain is unreliable, and the person who set it up helps when they can. The work now is to put a floor under it.

Growing

The week now has enough in it for a standing hour. A team, a second site, two systems that grew separately, and a machine everyone knows is dying. The work now is to stay ahead of it.

Gabriel does this work. A mechatronics engineer, helping people with technology since 2019 and on the Sunshine Coast since 2022. The standards that apply to every job are on How we work.

What do you need?

Pick one. We’ll show only what applies.

Defined work, quoted before it starts.

No plan, no commitment. You describe the job, we tell you what it takes and what it costs, and you decide before anything begins.

$160 + GSTper hourQuoted before it starts, so the number is agreed rather than discovered. GST is shown separately, the way you account for it.
  1. 01A project with an endA migration, a new site, a server that has to go, an environment that needs tidying. We scope it, quote it, then do it.
  2. 02Something that brokeMail that stopped arriving, an account nobody can open, a machine that has died. Booked like any other job.
  3. 03A decision you'd rather not make aloneWhat to buy, whether to replace it, whether the thing you were quoted is worth it. Often an hour is enough.
  • No call-out fee anywhere from Noosa to Caloundra. Remote work is the same rate, wherever you are in Australia.
  • Weekends and Queensland public holidays carry $160 + GST, charged once per visit rather than per hour. A same-day visit, arranged by message or call, carries the same $160 + GST, once. Neither applies to remote work.
  • No business surcharge on online sessions. A screen-share costs a business exactly what it costs a household. That’s deliberate: the fastest way to unblock somebody shouldn’t be the option you hesitate over.

Tell us the job. If it turns out a plan would serve you better, we’ll say so rather than bill you by the hour for something that should be standing.

Somebody owns it, instead of remembering it.

The domain, the mail, the accounts, the licences and the machines all need an owner. A plan is for when you’d rather that were somebody’s job than something you keep meaning to get to.

Every plan starts with the same document.

Before anything gets managed, we write down what you have, where it lives and what it costs to keep. That document is the Working Picture. It’s how the work gets done, and it’s yours from the first month, not just on the way out.

Start here

Essentials

$50 + GSTper person per month

The entry plan, and where every business begins.

  • Support when something stops working, and the admin that comes with it.
  • Microsoft kept in order, so licences match the people who actually work here.
  • Advice when a decision comes up, before money is spent on it.
  • The support connection already in place, so nobody has to work out how to reach us.
Optional

Premium

$150 + GSTper person per month

Optional. Everything in Essentials, at a higher intensity, with a standing hour that’s yours every week.

  • A standing hour every week, yours whether or not anything has broken.
  • Microsoft 365 administration, and the domain, DNS and mail kept in order.
  • Maintenance and security patches applied to every machine, not left to prompts.
  • Your other providers dealt with by us, so chasing them stops being your job.
  • Your systems watched between visits, so problems are found before they interrupt anyone.
Available on request

Premium+

Available on request

If you need more than Premium, tell us what you need. We’ll put together a proposal for your business.

Microsoft licences: You pay Microsoft's list price, not a cent above it.

Worried about a scam or a break-in? See how we handle a security incident.

Which plan is yours

Start on Essentials. Almost everyone should. It covers the things that go wrong and the admin that follows them, and it’s enough for a business where technology rarely takes up the week.

Move to Premium when two things are true. There’s enough happening in a normal week to use a standing hour, and you want your systems watched between visits rather than looked at once something has already broken. If you’re regularly waiting until Friday to raise things that happened on Tuesday, that’s the signal.

If you need more than Premium, ask us about Premium+. It’s available on request.

If you’re not sure which describes you, that itself is the answer. Start on Essentials and move when the week tells you to. Nobody is upgraded without being asked.

Notice, and what happens if you leave
  • No lock-in. Cancel any time with written notice.
  • It’s in writing before you sign. The Statement of Work sets out the notice, so you see it before there’s anything to agree to.
  • What you keep. The Working Picture is yours. If you leave, you leave with a document that says what you have, where it lives and what it costs to keep, not with a gap where a provider used to be.

30 minutes on the phone and you’ll know what you have, what it costs to keep, and what to do first. Whether that ends in a plan is your call afterwards, not during.

Plan prices are per person, per month, and exclude GST. Work outside a plan is $160/hr + GST, quoted before it starts.

Before any plan starts, it gets written down.

You approve the decisions. Gabriel runs the sequence. You don’t have to hold the order of it in your head, and nothing starts running until the picture is straight.

  1. 01HandoverWhatever the last person held comes across in writing, with nothing assumed. If they've left, we work out what existed rather than guessing at it.
  2. 02Domain and mailWe confirm who actually owns the domain, put the renewals somewhere you can see them, and make sure mail arrives every time rather than most times.
  3. 03Accounts and securityWho has access, what they can reach, and what leaves with them when they go. This is usually the step that finds the surprises.
  4. 04A written Working PictureOne document that says what you have, where it lives, and what it costs to keep. You own it, and you keep it even if we part ways.
  5. 05Support readyThe way your people ask for help is set up and tested before they need it, so the first request isn't also the first experiment.

Onboarding is quoted per engagement. It depends on how many people you have and on how much of the picture already exists in writing, so you get a number for your business rather than a number for a category.

If the last person has already gone

This is the common case, not the awkward one. Somebody set it all up, they aren’t here any more, and nobody knows which account owns what.

  • We start from what we can see rather than from what should exist — the domain records, the mail, the licences, the machines that are switched on.
  • Recovering ownership takes time, and sometimes it takes you. Some providers will only talk to the account holder, so there are steps only you can complete. We tell you which ones those are up front, instead of discovering them halfway.
  • You get the picture either way. Even where something can’t be recovered, you end up knowing that it exists, who holds it, and what it would take.

Start with a conversation, not a checkout. An hour is usually enough to know what shape the transition is.

If something has gone wrong, start here.

We contain it, recover it and write it down, with a written proposal before any work. Or 30 minutes online, if you’d rather know where you stand first.

Security incident response for one affected computer and your Microsoft 365. You get a written proposal first, and nothing starts until you accept it. A structured assessment and a written incident report for your bank or insurer are quoted case by case.

Every incident is different. $160 + GST per hour, quoted in a written proposal before we start.

Managed Premium is optional. It's never a condition of the response. Our setup is aligned with ASD guidance.

  • Security Check: On request
  • After-hours support: On request

How incident response works, step by step

Questions owners ask.

Cost

What does it cost?
Essentials is $50 + GST per person per month. Premium is optional, at $150 + GST per person per month. Premium+ is available on request. Work outside a plan is $160/hr + GST, quoted before it starts. If we do work you didn’t agree to, you don’t pay for it.
Why is business + GST when a home visit is inc GST?
Business figures are quoted the way businesses account for them, with GST shown separately and claimed back. Household prices include it, because that’s the number you actually pay. Same work, two audiences, two conventions.
Do I need a plan to get help?
No. One job can be booked the same way a household books one, at $160/hr + GST. A plan is for when you’d rather somebody owned it than remembered it.

Choosing a plan

Which plan is mine?
Start on Essentials. Almost everyone should. Move to Premium when there’s enough in a normal week to use a standing hour, and you want your systems watched between visits. If you need more than Premium, ask us. Premium+ is available on request. If you’re not sure, start on Essentials.
How long am I committed for?
No lock-in. Cancel any time with written notice. The terms sit in the Statement of Work, in writing, before you sign anything.

Working together

Who actually does the work?
Gabriel. When a job needs a specialist, you’re told who and why before anybody is brought in.
Someone already helps us. Is that a problem?
No, and often they stay involved. What changes is remit and capacity: somebody becomes accountable for the domain, the mail, the accounts and the licences, and is available when that person is at their own job.