Network, security, cloud and software consulting for the mid-market

The right team, spec’d for the job. One lead accountable for the result.

Growth-stage and mid-market companies run enterprise-grade technology with a fraction of the staff and all of the expectations. Dark Networks closes that gap with a model built in advance: a national network of senior specialists across network, systems, security, cloud and software, hand-picked for each engagement and led by one senior consultant who stays from scoping through handover and closeout. Enterprise capability, sized to your project, ready when you are.

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Technology partners
  • Microsoft
  • Cisco
  • Fortinet
  • Ruckus Networks
  • Aruba
  • HPE
  • Tenable
  • 14ip
Who we serve

Where the technology is the operation, not a support function.

We've gone deepest in four industries where a technology failure stops revenue: construction, commercial real estate, legal and financial services, hospitality. Years inside each taught us how the operation actually runs, and that's the part that travels. New industry, same method: learn the business first, then build for it.

A construction project runs its technology out of a trailer on temporary power, over whatever connection the site could get, with a roster that changes every month. The model still has to open at full size, and the schedule doesn't wait for the network.

So we design for the site the project actually gets, not the office it left behind. The wireless is planned before the trailer lands and proven after it does. A sub who starts Monday is working Monday, and when they roll off, nothing stays open behind them. The design data sits as safe in the trailer as it does at headquarters, and the software everyone needs is licensed, deployed and waiting before the first person asks. All of it in service of one number: the technology never becomes the reason the job slips.

That habit comes from preconstruction, where this work grew up: the technology decisions settled before ground breaks, alongside everything else the build depends on. The plan the trades work to has a technology chapter, and it's been written here before.

A portfolio accumulates systems the way it accumulates buildings: leasing from one era, building automation from another, a tenant portal from a third, and an accounting system that has to reconcile them all. None of it was designed to work together, and the gaps get papered over by hand.

We take the papering-over out. The numbers somebody rekeys every month start moving on their own, on the platform the portfolio already owns, so the fix never becomes one more system to maintain. And when the next building or the next platform is on the table, the technology questions get settled with the deal, the way they should have been for the last one.

That discipline was learned running portfolios: shared services, common standards, one operation with many addresses. The outcome we build for is a dozen buildings that behave like one, and a thirteenth that arrives without chaos.

Hospitality runs at three altitudes at once: the property, the brand whose standards every property answers to, and the shared services behind both. A failure at any altitude reaches a guest in minutes.

We work across all three. The systems behind the front desk keep talking to each other, so check-in never waits on one of them. The wireless is designed for a sold-out Saturday rather than a floor plan. The payment environment is walled off so it actually holds. And the standards that keep a portfolio running the same way get built once and enforced everywhere, so nothing gets between a guest and the place they came for.

This work comes out of group-level hospitality operations, run at the property, brand and shared-services levels, through preconstruction, opening, rebrands and de-flagging. Hospitality isn't a vertical we studied. It's the business this firm grew up in.

About us

How the work gets built, and how it gets handed back.

About the firm
How we work

One lead. A team picked for the project.

Your engagement's senior lead stays accountable through handover and closeout, for quality, schedule and everything between. The team underneath is tiered on purpose: specialists hand-picked because they've done this exact work before, and developing engineers who train, certify and grow under senior direction. Partners, vendors and your own people sit in the same frame, and one person answers for the whole.

What we know

Judgment from running these environments, not reading about them

Every practice is led by people who've operated what they now advise on. It shows up in the details: the rollback plan nobody asked for, the workload we'll tell you not to migrate. The proof is in the work and the writing.

Where we focus

Project and advisory work, by design

We don't run a helpdesk, and that's deliberate. Day-to-day support belongs with your own team or with one of the excellent MSPs we partner with, and we'll help you find the right fit. That focus buys you engagements built to be handed back: documented, stronger than we found them, with no revenue reason to keep you dependent.

Featured resources

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Azure VMware Solution after the Broadcom renewal

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Azure landing zone decisions that outlive the build

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Identity is the perimeter now

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Bring the hard challenge. We'll work out the solution together.

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