Free resources · Self-audit
Do you actually know your own tech?
Most organizations run on tools they never really chose, and could not tell you who actually holds their data. Before you can decide whether your tech matches your values, you have to know what you are using. This is the first step: seven plain questions, about two minutes. Your answers stay in your browser, we never see them, and there is nothing to sign up for.
It is completely fine to answer “I’m not sure.” That is the most useful answer there is, because every “not sure” is something worth finding out.
1.Do you know where your website and online services are hosted?
2.What runs your organization’s email?
3.Where do your files and documents live?
4.What do you use for video calls and meetings?
5.Who controls your domain name?
6.Where does your customer or contact list live?
7.How do you measure who visits your website?
You know your stack, and most of it is yours.
You can name where your tools live and a lot of it is already in your control. That puts you ahead of nearly every small organization. The list below shows anything left worth a closer look.
You know where things live. A lot of it is Big Tech.
Good news first: you actually know what you are running, which most people cannot say. The flip side is how much of it sits with Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. None of that is an emergency, but each one is a place you could take back control.
A lot of unknowns, and that is the perfect place to start.
If you answered “not sure” a few times, you are completely normal, and you have just found the most valuable thing: the questions worth asking. The list below is your starting map.
So, what now? Every item above is something you can dig into yourself, or hand to us.
Do it yourself. Start with the plain-language glossary to learn what each of these means and why it matters, then work through the free guides.
Or do it together. Book a free 30-minute consult and we will walk through what you found and where it is worth starting.