Partners & Trust

The vendor relationships behind our work.

Small organizations get priced out of cybersecurity because they can't access the relationships, the pricing, or the support tiers that larger companies negotiate. We carry those relationships on behalf of our customers — so they don't have to.

Primary Partnerships

Two relationships that shape what we deliver.

These two partnerships drive the bulk of what our customers see — the hardware they use and the cloud infrastructure that runs their tools. They're the public-facing edges of our operation.

Lenovo 360 MSP Partner

Procurement & hardware

Our Lenovo 360 partnership gives us direct access to the full business-class product catalog — laptops, desktops, workstations, monitors, docks, peripherals, signage, and meeting room hardware — at partner pricing. We extend that access to our customers without the overhead of a corporate procurement department.

Partner pricing on ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, and ThinkStation lines
Full business warranty support and escalation channels
Access to the broader catalog: monitors, docks, accessories, signage
Pre-deployment configuration and security hardening
On-site delivery within driving distance of North Bay

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AWS Partner

Cloud & infrastructure

As an AWS Partner, we design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure that fits the actual workloads our customers run — without the over-engineering common when small organizations try to navigate AWS alone. Whether that's a single hosted application or a regulated workload, we bring the architectural expertise.

Architecture and deployment of secure AWS environments
Cost optimization for small-org workloads
Identity, access, and compliance configuration
Access to AWS partner support and resources
Right-sized infrastructure rather than enterprise default

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The Stack Underneath Core

Built on tools enterprises trust.

Orderly Ops Core is our subscription protection platform. The components that power it are best-in-class vendors used by enterprises worldwide — selected because they're effective, not because they're cheap. We carry these relationships on behalf of our customers.

Emsisoft

ENDPOINT PROTECTION

Emsisoft is a respected, independent endpoint protection vendor with a long track record of effectiveness against ransomware and emerging threats. As an Emsisoft MSP partner, we deploy and manage their dual-engine antivirus across every Core subscriber's environment — and we have the channel access to escalate issues when they arise.

MSP Partner

1Password

PASSWORD & SECRETS MANAGEMENT

1Password is the industry-standard password manager for organizations that take credential security seriously. Through our MSP partnership, we provision, train, and manage 1Password for customers as part of their Core protection — solving the single biggest source of small-organization breaches: bad password hygiene.

MSP Partner

These are not the only tools we use, but they're the ones most customers interact with directly. The rest of the stack is reviewed and selected the same way: effectiveness first, vendor stability second, cost considered last.

Why It Matters

What these partnerships do for you.

Vendor logos are easy to collect. What makes a partnership meaningful is what it changes for the customer on the other end.

Access we'd otherwise lack

Most of these vendors don't sell directly to small organizations. Our partnerships give our customers practical access to enterprise-tier tools — at pricing that reflects our channel relationship, not retail.

An escalation path that works

When something goes wrong with a piece of hardware or a critical tool, we don't call a 1-800 number — we work through partner channels that exist for situations like ours. Issues resolve faster.

Vendor-vetted by us, not by you

Selecting and managing security vendors is its own full-time job. We've done the work of evaluating, integrating, and monitoring these relationships so our customers don't have to.

How We Select Vendors

Three criteria, in order.

Every vendor we recommend or include in our service stack passes three tests, in this order.

1. Does it actually work?

Effectiveness is the first filter. If a tool can't deliver on what it claims — protect endpoints, secure credentials, host workloads reliably — nothing else about it matters. We test before we deploy, and we keep testing.

2. Is the vendor stable and supported?

We avoid putting our customers' security on products from vendors that might disappear, get acquired and gutted, or stop investing in updates. We favor vendors with a long operating track record and a healthy business.

3. Does the cost work for our customers?

Cost matters — but third. A cheaper tool that fails or a vendor that vanishes costs more than a more expensive option that works. Within that constraint, we negotiate partner pricing to keep our customers' total cost reasonable.

Let's Talk

Curious which of these would benefit your organization?

Hardware procurement, AWS consulting, or ongoing Core protection — we'll talk through which of these makes sense for your situation, and which don't. The strategy call is free, lasts 30 minutes, and you'll leave with a clearer picture either way.

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