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What does downtime actually cost you?

Most businesses underestimate this by an order of magnitude, because they only count the obvious part. Move the sliders and watch the real number appear.

Your business

Rough numbers are fine. The scale is the point.

25
5500
$45
$18$150
$6M
$500K$100M+
24
2 hrs120 hrs
How dependent is work on IT?

Cost per hour of downtime

$0

Lost productivity plus revenue you can't recapture, every hour systems are down.

Per full day

$0

Per year

$0

With proactive management

Managed clients typically cut unplanned downtime by around 80% once monitoring, patching and tested backups are in place.

Estimated annual saving $0
Typical Fortified cost $0/yr

Want this as a one-page business case?

We'll email you this calculation written up properly: the assumptions, the math and a comparison against what managed IT would actually cost you. The kind of thing you can forward to whoever signs off on spend.

  • Your numbers, written up as a business case
  • Benchmarks for your company size
  • Flat-rate pricing with no sales call required

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We reply within one business day. No sales sequence, no list sharing. Your details stay with us.

Estimates only. Productivity loss is modelled as employees × loaded hourly cost × IT dependency. Revenue loss is modelled pro-rata against business hours. Real-world impact varies with the systems affected, the time of day and whether customers notice.

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Let's find out what's actually broken.

Most companies we talk to are carrying two or three risks they don't know about and paying for something they don't need. Thirty minutes is usually enough to find both.

  • A real conversation Thirty minutes with an engineer, not a commissioned salesperson reading from a deck.
  • An honest assessment We will tell you what is genuinely urgent and what can wait a quarter, including when the answer is 'you're fine'.
  • A written plan A prioritized roadmap and flat-rate pricing. Yours to keep whether or not you hire us.

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We reply within one business day. No sales sequence, no list sharing. Your details stay with us.