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Fairley Holdings Group

Operational IT Leadership
That Pays for Itself.

Senior IT consulting that delivers measurable operational savings — not another vendor relationship to manage, but embedded expertise that builds systems designed to run without you.

IT Documentation Series · Available Now

42 Field-Tested Guides.

$39
The Zero Trust Roadmap
Zero Trust philosophy translated into specific Entra ID settings and a Conditional Access maturity scorecard.
$59
VMware Exit Strategy
A migration guide to Proxmox & Nutanix, with a TCO comparison chart for the post-Broadcom pricing shift.
$79
The MSP Audit Blueprint
A 50-point forensic checklist for auditing MSP invoices and catching overcharges before they compound.
About FHG

Built on Expertise. Driven by Results.

FHG is a consulting collective founded on a simple principle: the people who've done the work at the highest levels are the ones best positioned to guide others.

Our advisors bring decades of hands-on experience across enterprise technology, military leadership, athletic performance, business operations, and personal development — not theoretical knowledge, but real-world results under real-world pressure.

That track record shows up in the numbers: 12,000+ tickets resolved, a 16.6% reduction in phishing vulnerability for one client environment, and a 90% client satisfaction rate — the operational discipline behind every engagement.

$500K+
Operational Downtime Savings Delivered
15+
Years Enterprise IT Experience
TS/SCI
Federal Security Clearance
50–5000
User Environments Served
"We don't sell hours.
We deliver outcomes."
IT Infrastructure Consulting Now Enrolling

Enterprise IT. Without the Enterprise Overhead.

Senior-level technology leadership deployed directly for your organization — systems built to run without you, not another vendor relationship to manage. Our flagship specialty: uncovering what MSPs and IT vendors are quietly overcharging for, backed by a 50-point forensic methodology and a real dollar-figure track record.

Starting at $2,500 Flagship Specialty

MSP Accountability & Vendor Overcharge Auditing

MSP auditing, contract negotiation, billing reconciliation, and vendor accountability — powered by our 50-point forensic audit methodology. Protecting your organization from overpayment and underperformance.

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Starting at $2,500

IT Process Automation & Workflow Optimization

End-to-end automation of manual IT processes — from our proven library of admin workflows for onboarding, offboarding, and license management to custom PowerShell scripting, reporting dashboards, and operational efficiency systems built to run without you.

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Starting at $1,500

M365 Assessment & Roadmap

Comprehensive audit of your Microsoft 365 environment with a prioritized roadmap for security, efficiency, and operational clarity.

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Starting at $3,500

Intune / MDM Deployment

End-to-end mobile device management for up to 50 devices — enrollment, policy configuration, and ongoing support included.

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Starting at $5,000

Infrastructure Deployment & Support

Server, network, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure build-out — from legacy modernization to post-Broadcom migration planning. Retainer-based support options for growing organizations.

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Want a fully scoped, line-item quote for your specific environment?

IT Documentation Series Available Now

Field-Tested IT Playbooks. Built From Real Deployments.

Specific, actionable guides for the scenarios that don't have a clean textbook answer — written by the people who've actually shipped them. Instant delivery after purchase.

$39

Power Automate for IT Managers: 10 Essential Admin Workflows

Ten ready-to-build flows for onboarding, offboarding, and license alerts — the recipe-card companion to the architecture guides below.

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$39

The 48-Hour Intune Setup Guide for Small Businesses

A streamlined, zero-fluff implementation roadmap designed specifically for IT generalists who need to secure up to 50 devices over a weekend.

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$39

The Ghost License Detection Manual

Platform-specific methodology for Microsoft 365, AWS, and Azure to find seats and resources still assigned to former employees.

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$39

The Privacy-First BYOD Blueprint: Managing Personal Phones with Intune

Solves the "creepy boss" problem by showing admins how to implement MAM without enrolling the entire device or seeing personal data.

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$39

The Zero Trust Roadmap for Microsoft 365 Identity Management

Translates Zero Trust philosophy into specific Entra ID settings and Conditional Access policies — with a maturity scorecard.

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$39

The Zero-Touch Onboarding Blueprint

Integration architecture between HR platforms and Active Directory/Entra ID — covering hybrid AD environments most automation content assumes away.

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$49

Employee AI Safety Training: A Security Awareness Toolkit

A ready-to-use slide deck and PDF guide for training non-tech staff on the risks of pasting sensitive data into public AI bots.

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$79

The Agentic AI Governance Playbook: Auditing and Controlling Autonomous Systems Before They Touch Production

A framework for auditing and controlling autonomous AI agents that write code, move money, or touch production, before they become the risk nobody reviewed.

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$49

LLM Privacy Hardening: A Guide to Secure Prompting

A technical but accessible guide on preventing data leakage when using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for corporate tasks.

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$49

Modernizing Legacy: The 5-Step Rack-to-Cloud Hybrid Framework

For businesses with "closet servers" that need a modernized, supportable virtualization layer with off-site disaster recovery — without forcing full cloud.

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$49

Offboarding Automation: The Secure Departure System

Security-first employee exits with a visual pipeline flow diagram — instant access revocation, data backup, and multi-system scope beyond M365.

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$49

The 10-Year Laptop: Maintenance & Optimization Guide

A sustainability-focused guide on hardware upgrades, debloating OS, and battery management to double a device's lifespan.

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$49

The Apple Business Manager Blueprint: Small Team MDM

A zero-fluff guide specifically for small business owners who need to set up Jamf or Kandji without hiring a full-time IT department.

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$79

The Enterprise Device Governance Audit: A CFO-Ready Framework for Asset Recovery, Compliance, and TCO

A CFO-ready framework covering asset registers, TCO modeling, lifecycle policy, and license and ghost-asset recovery for device fleets.

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$49

The Automated Help Desk: Reducing Ticket Volume with Self-Service Bot

A blueprint for setting up automated triage and self-healing bots that resolve the most common 20% of IT tickets without human intervention.

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$79

The Automation Governance Audit: Managing Risk and Accountability in RPA and IT Scripting

A governance and audit framework for organizations whose scripts, bots, and flows have outgrown anyone's ability to explain, secure, or recover them.

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$79

Building an AI Chief of Staff: Systematizing Business Execution and Decision Discipline with LLM Agents

A practitioner's framework for running a business and a portfolio through daily agent-assisted analysis, rules-governed execution, and a standing decision ledger that keeps good ideas from evaporating.

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$49

The Digital Fortress: A Personal Device Hardening Guide

A privacy-first approach to device management, covering encryption, DNS filtering, and metadata scrubbing for everyday users.

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$49

The Low-Code IT Pro: Automating Office 365 with Power Automate

Empowering IT professionals to solve complex business workflow problems using Microsoft's low-code tools without writing extensive backend code.

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$49

The MSP Switcher's Survival Kit

Risk-focused guide on how to offboard an underperforming MSP without losing data or experiencing downtime — with a visual transition timeline.

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$79

AIOps Implementation Roadmap: Transitioning to Predictive IT Monitoring

A strategic guide on integrating AI and Machine Learning into existing monitoring stacks to predict failures before they happen.

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$59

ChromeOS Flex for Schools: Fleet Management Guide

Focuses on repurposing old Windows/Mac hardware into manageable Chromebooks using Google's lightweight OS.

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$59

Microsoft 365 Copilot Readiness: The Data Hygiene & Permissions Blueprint

Pre-deployment remediation checklist for the M365 oversharing epidemic — with a visual risk surface diagram and priority matrix.

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$59

PowerShell Core 7: The Ultimate Scripting Guide for Modern Windows Environments

Modernizing legacy Batch/VBScript workflows for the cross-platform PowerShell Core, focusing on Azure integration and remote management.

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$59

Secure AI Procurement: A Buyer's Security Questionnaire

A standardized set of questions and criteria to use when vetting third-party AI software vendors for security.

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$59

The Cloud FinOps Manual: Automating AWS & Azure Cost Reduction

Focuses exclusively on 'Financial Automation'—using scripts and policies to automatically kill zombie resources and right-size cloud instances.

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$59

The Deepfake Defense Toolkit for Remote Teams

Focuses on real-time verification protocols for video calls and voice authentication to prevent multi-million dollar business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

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$59

The Hardened Intune Compliance Checklist for SOC 2 and HIPAA

Translates complex regulatory requirements into specific Intune policy settings with a visual compliance coverage heatmap.

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$59

VMware Exit Strategy: A Migration Guide to Proxmox & Nutanix

Post-Broadcom migration playbook with TCO comparison chart and step-by-step migration timeline for SMBs evaluating alternatives.

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$59

Edge Infrastructure for IoT: Design and Management

Focuses on the unique challenges of distributed hardware management, including low-latency data processing and remote node updates.

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$59

The Hybrid Cloud Exit Strategy: Workload Repatriation

A strategic guide on "Cloud Repatriation"—calculating when it is cheaper to move workloads back to on-prem and how to execute it.

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$59

Zero Trust Infrastructure for Small Enterprises

Demystifies the NIST Zero Trust architecture into a practical, 10-step implementation guide specifically for organizations without massive IT departments.

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$59

SRE Incident Response: The Infrastructure Outage Playbook

Includes fill-in-the-blank communication templates and technical escalation trees for high-pressure outages.

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$59

Bare Metal to Kubernetes: A Migration Field Guide

Detailed technical roadmap for moving legacy workloads from physical servers to containerized environments.

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$79

Enterprise Generative AI Security & Governance Framework

A high-level strategic roadmap for CISOs to implement AI safety protocols without stifling organizational innovation.

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$79

FinOps for MSPs: Managing Client Cloud Spend for Profit

Turning cloud cost management (AWS/Azure) into a high-margin recurring consulting service.

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$79

The 2026 Guide to Value-Based MSP Pricing Models

Moving away from commoditized 'per-user' pricing toward risk-adjusted and value-based service tiers.

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$79

The Cybersecurity Insurance Readiness Checklist

A financial risk perspective on tech: ensuring clients meet insurance requirements to lower premiums and MSP liability.

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$79

The MSP Audit Blueprint: A 50-Point Forensic Checklist

A forensic approach to auditing existing MSP invoices and service delivery logs to identify immediate overcharges and missing deliverables.

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$149 · Best Value

The MSP Financial Governance Bundle

Cyber insurance readiness, cloud cost control, and value-based pricing — the three levers of MSP financial governance, in one package.

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...and more added regularly

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Platforms & Expertise

The Stack Behind the Strategy.

Microsoft 365 Azure AD / Entra ID Microsoft Intune CrowdStrike FortiGate VMware ESXi PowerShell Veeam SentinelOne Jamf Palo Alto SolarWinds Microsoft 365 Azure AD / Entra ID Microsoft Intune CrowdStrike FortiGate VMware ESXi PowerShell Veeam SentinelOne Jamf Palo Alto SolarWinds
Nutanix Hyper-V ManageEngine NinjaOne Mimecast Threatlocker Tenable Absolute Druva inSync Microsoft Defender Microsoft Purview Atera Nutanix Hyper-V ManageEngine NinjaOne Mimecast Threatlocker Tenable Absolute Druva inSync Microsoft Defender Microsoft Purview Atera
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