FAQ

The questions we actually get.

Straight answers, no sales gloss. If yours isn't here, the fastest way to a real answer is a short call.

Getting started

How does working with Movalo start?

With a 30-minute call, no slide deck. You tell us what's actually broken. We follow up with a written one-pager: what we'd fix in the first 30 days, what we'd leave as is, and what it would cost. If it's a fit, we move forward. If it isn't, you keep the assessment.

Do you replace our IT team, or work alongside it?

Both happen. Some clients hand us everything. Others have an internal person or team who's stretched thin, and we take the 2am alerts, the patching, the security, and the help desk volume off their plate so they can focus on the business-specific work only they can do. We'll be honest in the first conversation about which model fits.

How long does onboarding take?

Most environments are fully onboarded in two to four weeks, depending on size and how much documentation exists. The first 30 days are mostly listening: mapping what you have, finding the quiet failures (backups that stopped running, certificates about to expire), and stabilizing before we change anything.

Are you a fit for a business our size?

We work best with established businesses, roughly 10 to 250 staff, that depend on their technology and are tired of surprises. If you're much smaller or much larger, we'll tell you plainly whether we're the right call or point you somewhere better.

Pricing & contracts

How does your pricing work?

You pay a predictable monthly rate based on the size of your environment, typically per user and per device, that covers the day-to-day: monitoring, help desk, patching, security tooling, and routine work. No hourly meter running every time someone calls. Predictable billing is the point.

What's included, and what costs extra?

Day-to-day management and support are included. Things outside the steady state, a major migration, a new office build-out, a hardware refresh, a compliance project, are scoped and quoted separately so you can see exactly what you're paying for. We'd rather quote a project than bury it in a vague monthly number.

Are we locked into a long contract?

We use clear terms, not traps. We earn the relationship every month, the average client has stayed with us for six years or more, and that's because the work holds up, not because the paperwork makes leaving painful. We'll walk you through the exact term before you sign anything.

Support

How do we reach support?

The support portal is the fastest path for almost everything: it routes your request straight to the right engineer with the context attached. The phone is there for genuine outages and emergencies. The full breakdown of channels is on the Support page.

What are your support hours?

Critical-systems monitoring and emergency response run 24/7, with automated alerting and failover, so most problems are handled before you notice them. The help desk staffs standard business hours for day-to-day requests, with on-call coverage for anything that can't wait.

Is your help desk really U.S.-based?

Yes. When you call, you reach our own people in the United States, the same team that knows your environment, not an overnight offshore desk reading from a script. No handoffs across time zones to a team that's never seen your network.

Security & compliance

Can you help us meet HIPAA, SOC 2, or PCI?

Yes. We implement and operate the controls underneath the major frameworks, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, the NIST families, ISO 27001, CMMC, and CIS Controls v8, and hand the evidence to whoever audits or certifies you. We're not the auditor, and we don't pretend to be. The framework-by-framework detail is on the Compliance overview.

Where does our data live, and who can access it?

In the United States, handled by our U.S. team, with access kept to least privilege and admin activity logged. How we run our own shop, and the vendors we rely on, are laid out on the Trust Center.

Do you carry cyber insurance?

Yes, and we can share a certificate on request. The same controls that satisfy your auditors are usually what your own cyber insurance carrier wants to see at renewal, and we help you put those in place and document them.

Leaving & your data

What happens to our data if we leave?

It's yours. If you ever move on, we hand over documentation, credentials, and a clean transition to whoever's next. We'd rather you stay because the work is good than because leaving is a nightmare.

Do you make it hard to switch away?

No. We don't hold infrastructure hostage, hoard passwords, or build deliberate lock-in. A relationship that only survives because the exit is painful isn't one we want.

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