IT consulting, implementation & integrations - Hampton Roads, VA
IT consulting, custom implementation, and business automation for Hampton Roads companies. Networking. Cloud. Cybersecurity. Compliance. We score what’s broken, wire the tools and data together, and stay until the work outgrows us.
Free · No commitment · You walk out with your top three gaps written down
Hampton Roads, Virginia
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We score what matters. Pick a city for what we score there.
Four steps from the free IT assessment to the day you outgrow us. No mystery middle, no pitch decks, no renaming the obvious.
Quick translation before the steps: the Helix Score is a credit score for how your business runs. One number from 100 to 900, built from four areas we call CTGA: Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption.
Three different things. The free call is how we start. CTGA is the method we score you against. The Helix Score is the number you walk out with.
A quick call. We cover all four CTGA pillars and you walk out with your top three gaps in writing.
We score what’s broken and hand you the priority list, yours to keep regardless.
Network, stack, automations. We do the work, not just the roadmap.
Retainer advisory until you need a full internal team. We hand off clean.
Most companies in Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach have the same five IT gaps. We name them, score them on the CTGA framework, and fix them in priority order.
I don't know if my systems would survive an audit.
We're paying for software twice and I can't tell what we actually use. Last year that drift cost us a number I'm embarrassed to say out loud.
We bought the tool. Nobody uses it.
Every time something breaks, I find out from a customer.
I need someone in the room when we make tech decisions, but I can't afford a full-time CIO.
Free · No commitment · No sales pitch
Book a free IT assessment. No sales pitch, no obligation. We cover your IT operations across all four CTGA pillars and you walk away with your top three gaps and an estimated Helix Score.
Three things change when Helix Stax is in the room: how the IT work gets scored, where it happens, and how the first conversation costs you nothing.
The CTGA framework scores every engagement across Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption. You see the number before you sign anything, and you watch it move every quarter the work is in.
Hampton Roads operators get on-site assessments and a partner in the same time zone. Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Hampton, Suffolk. We work where you work.
Sixty minutes, free, no upsell pitch. You walk out with your CTGA score and the three gaps the data says will cost you the most this quarter. If we're not the right fit, you keep the score.
Founder studied at Harvard and MIT, with experience working alongside enterprises like Xfinity.
Built and run by the Helix Stax teamIT consulting for businesses across Hampton Roads: Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and Suffolk. We design, implement, integrate, and coordinate the vendors doing hands-on support, with a CIO-level seat above the work.
The consulting layer over your helpdesk, network, servers, and cloud: vendor coordination, roadmap ownership, and accountability for the systems your business runs on.
CMMC, NIST, HIPAA, the cyber-insurance questionnaire. We score, harden, and ride it until the assessor signs.
Custom implementation, workflow automation, and software integrations that protect the data your business actually runs on.
The senior IT brain on a retainer — quarterly CTGA scoring, IT roadmap, and the seat at the table when vendor decisions get made.
The CTGA framework scores any service business the same way. The industry just changes which gaps show up first.
The flow-down email wants your CMMC posture by the next option year. The audit floor is closer than you think.
See Government Contracting approachEHR, billing, scheduling, and patient comms in four systems that almost talk to each other.
See Healthcare approachPractice management, a document portal, and the spreadsheet your senior partner will not give up.
See Legal approachThe ERP you picked a decade ago no longer fits how you ship, and the shop floor runs on a clipboard.
See Manufacturing approachA WMS that only talks to the ERP through a nightly export that breaks every other Friday.
See Distribution approachPOS, online ordering, a loyalty app, and a scheduling tool the kitchen never opens. The assistant GM is the integration layer.
See Hospitality approachWe implement these frameworks for clients: scoring the gaps, writing the controls, and building the IT systems an auditor will open the laptop to verify.
CMMC
Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for the DoD supply chain.
NIST 800-171
Controlled Unclassified Information protections for non-federal systems.
CIS Controls
The eighteen prioritized controls from the Center for Internet Security v8.
NIST CSF
The five-function Cybersecurity Framework: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover.
SOC 2
Service Organization Control 2: Trust Services Criteria for customer data handling.
Start with zero risk
You own the results
Everything we produce, documentation, configs, code, scores , belongs to you. Walk away with it any time.
No pitch
The free call is a working session, not a demo. We cover your four CTGA pillars and you leave with a written gap summary.
Tailored pricing, no surprises
Pricing is tailored to your business, and we go over it on the free call.
No commitment required
The free call is free. Take the gap report to whoever you want. Engage us only if the fit is right.
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The CTGA Framework scores your operations on Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption. One number from 100 to 900. You walk out of a free IT assessment with your top three gaps named and an estimated score.
Four pillars: two for your systems, two for your people.
The stuff that gets you fined: Compliance and risk
Pass the audit you don't see coming.
Compliance deadlines, vendor agreements, and the documentation that matters most on the worst day. Most businesses have the rules OR the enforcement, not both.
What we audit: policy ownership, audit-trail completeness, vendor-risk posture
The tools nobody uses right: Tools and systems
Stop paying for tools nobody uses.
Every tool, platform, and integration your business runs on. Most stacks we audit have software nobody opens anymore.
What we audit: license utilization, integration health, recovery readiness
The leads you're losing: Revenue and leads
Stop losing leads you already paid to get.
How customers find you, how leads convert, and how revenue scales. 62% of calls go unanswered. Leads contacted within 5 minutes convert at 100x the rate.
What we audit: lead-response time, pipeline hygiene, brand consistency
The team that can't run without you: People and process
Your team adopts the tools, or we stop buying them.
Where the other three pillars succeed or fail. A tool nobody uses is a subscription fee. A process nobody follows is a document on a shelf.
What we audit: onboarding completion, usage analytics, change ownership
A free call with our team. No pitch deck. You keep the results.
Free · ~3 minutes · No sales pitch
The Helix Score is a directional read on your IT operations across the four CTGA pillars — Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption. Five questions. A score from 100 to 900. A plain-English read on what the number means.
No account. No form. No one will call you. Use it to get your bearings before the free IT assessment, or just to know where you are right now.
Get Your Free Helix ScoreAn IT consulting firm helps a small business decide what to build, what to buy, what to retire, and how to run it without burning the team out. It is not the same as an MSP, which keeps existing systems running. It is not the same as hiring an internal IT person, who handles day-to-day. And it is not a marketing agency. Consulting is the strategy and implementation layer between those three.
CTGA scores your operations on four pillars: Controls, Technology, Growth, and Adoption. Each pillar gets a number, and the four roll up to a single composite score from 100 to 900. The bands read like a credit score: 100-300 is exposed (real risk, real money leaking), 400-600 is operational (it works but it is brittle), and 700-900 is compounding (systems making the business better as it grows).
A free IT assessment with our team. No intake form, no demo, no pitch deck. We cover your IT operations across all four CTGA pillars and you walk away with your top three gaps, an estimated Helix Score, and a plain-English summary of what is broken. You own the results. Take them to whoever you want.
The free call is free, always. Beyond that, every engagement is tailored to your business and scope. We do not publish prices or quote in chat. We go over the real numbers with you on the call.
No. Helix Stax is an IT consulting firm. We do strategy, system selection, implementation, compliance work, and ongoing advisory. We do not run a 24/7 helpdesk and we do not sell managed antivirus by the seat. When clients need full-time helpdesk or device management, we hand them to an MSP partner in the Hampton Roads area and stay involved on the strategy side.
Either. We have done both. If you already have an internal IT lead or an MSP, we sit on the strategy and architecture side and they keep the lights on. If you have nobody, we run the function until you hire someone, then we hand it off cleanly with documentation. The engagement tier sets the shape: lighter retainers stay advisory, deeper engagements get embedded.
Yes. We run CMMC Level 2 readiness work and full NIST 800-171 control implementation for Newport News defense contractors, shipyard suppliers, and DoD prime subcontractors. The engagement covers gap assessment, System Security Plan authoring, POA&M tracking, and the actual technical control work (endpoint hardening, audit logging, encrypted storage) that a C3PAO assessor will open the laptop to verify.
Yes. We work with DoD prime subcontractors and shipyard suppliers across Hampton Roads, including suppliers feeding Newport News Shipbuilding and the broader Huntington Ingalls Industries supply chain. The work usually combines CMMC Level 2 readiness, NIST 800-171 control implementation, secure infrastructure design, and audit preparation. We have not done a CMMC Level 3 engagement yet and we will say so on the first call.
Yes. Hampton Roads is the home base, not a fence. We currently run an out-of-state client engagement and we take remote work anywhere in the continental US. On-site visits cost more outside the region because of travel, but most of the assessment, design, and ongoing advisory work runs over video and screen-share without losing anything.
The client owns everything we produce inside the engagement. That includes documentation, configurations, automation code, runbooks, vendor accounts, and the data behind your CTGA scores. Helix Stax retains the CTGA framework itself and the internal tooling we use to score and track engagements, but those are not deliverables. If you walk, you walk with your stuff.
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Start with a free IT assessment: a quick conversation, not a sales call. You’ll walk away with your top three gaps and an estimated Helix Score. No commitment, no hourly billing. It’s free, no commitment.
Free · No commitment · You own the results
