Your IT department. Your business advisor. One call.
Catalyst Group is an IT and business consulting firm in Foley, Alabama. We answer the help desk, run the cabling and Wi-Fi, watch your systems around the clock, and sit on your side of the table for the decisions that cost real money.
Monthly service plans with hours included. A real person on every call and every ticket. Founded in Foley in 2021.
Four ways we help
Need a CRM as well? CRM-NG Cloud is set up when you sign up.
What InfraGuard is watching right now, for a sample client
Everything an in-house IT department would do, without the headcount.
Pick one service or hand us the whole stack. Most clients start with the help desk and add from there. See all 21 services
Run and protect
The day-to-day IT department: patched, monitored, backed up and answered.
Build
Software, storefronts and systems that fit how you already work.
Automate
AI where it earns its place, plain integrations where it does not, and reports people read.
Guide
Senior advice from people who have run infrastructure, security and development teams.
InfraGuard
Our 24/7 monitoring platform, watching every server, laptop and website.
We built InfraGuard and run it ourselves. One agent reports patch status, security events, file changes and uptime to one dashboard. When something is wrong, a ticket opens and a person calls you. Included on every service plan.
- Office serverPatched, 14 days uptime
- 22 laptopsAll checked in, 0 alerts
- Website and client portalUp, 212 ms
- Front desk PCDisk 91% full, ticket open
- Nightly backupRestore test passed 06:10
- Firewall and VPNFirmware current, 3 users connected
Your dashboard shows the same view, read-only, in the client portal.
Service plans
Service plans with hours included.
Every plan includes hours of work or consulting each month, a place in the priority queue, InfraGuard monitoring and your documentation in your portal. Compare the plans
Essentials
$295 per month
- 2 hours of work or consulting included each month
- Priority over non-plan clients, next-business-day target
- InfraGuard monitoring: up to 5 devices and 1 website
Partner
$695 per month
- 6 hours of work or consulting included each month
- Same-day response target
- InfraGuard monitoring: up to 25 devices and 3 websites
Premier
$1,495 per month
- 15 hours of work or consulting included each month
- 4-hour response target, after-hours on-call
- InfraGuard monitoring: up to 75 devices and 10 websites
No plan? $125 per hour with a one-hour minimum. Projects are quoted separately on every tier.
CRM-NG Cloud
A hosted CRM and client portal, set up the day you sign up.
Contacts, deals, tickets, invoices, projects and documents on one client record, hosted and backed up by us. Every Catalyst Group client gets the portal; any business can run on the full platform.
Create a workspace
Demo
- Create the workspace and your admin account
- Install CRM-NG and switch on your modules
- Set up email delivery and sender checks
- Publish the client portal
- Turn on backups, monitoring and two-step sign-in
- Load sample data and open the setup wizard
Sign in to finish the setup wizard: time zone, company details, client portal and the modules you want on.
This is a sample run with demo data. A real workspace follows the same steps and sends you a sign-in link when it is done.
Web design and hosting
Websites we design, host and keep current.
One monthly price covers design, hosting, backups, updates and Catalyst Sentinel security, with InfraGuard watching uptime and certificates. Web design and hosting
Site
A fast, well-written brochure site for a business that needs to be found and trusted.
- Design and copy, up to [N] pages
- Hosting, backups, updates, Sentinel security
- Google Business Profile set up
- Content changes on request
[PRICE] per month
Site that brings in work
Everything in Site, plus the forms, booking and follow-up that turn visits into customers.
- Lead forms straight into CRM-NG
- Online booking and reminders
- Review requests and email follow-up
- Monthly traffic and lead report
[PRICE] per month
Store or portal
Sell online or give customers, owners or tenants a place to sign in, pay and see their documents.
- Storefront or client portal
- Payments, inventory or document signing
- Integration with your systems
- PCI-aware hosting and monitoring
From [PRICE] per month
How an engagement runs
- 01
Assess
A plain answer on where you stand: risks, costs and what is worth fixing first. No obligation.
- 02
Onboard
Monitoring, backups and access are set up in the first weeks, and your team gets one number to call.
- 03
Support and build
Tickets get answered by a person. Projects ship in small, reviewed releases, on a test copy before production.
- 04
Review
A regular look at what changed, what it cost and what to do next quarter. You see the same dashboards we do.
Who we work with
Businesses too big to wing it and too lean for an in-house IT org chart, across Baldwin and Mobile counties and the Florida panhandle. These are the five we see most around Foley; the industries page covers all 29.
Built here, run here
Tools we built for ourselves. You can use them too.
Most of our work is people work: tickets, cabling, monitoring, advice. Along the way we built the tools we needed to do it well, and clients can run on them as well.
CRM-NG Cloud
A hosted CRM and client portal, set up when you sign up.
InfraGuard
Our 24/7 monitoring: patching, security events, uptime and verified backups, with a person on the other end.
Catalyst Sentinel
Security and recovery for the websites we host.
Web design and hosting
Sites we design, host and keep current for one monthly price.
Not sure where to start? That is the first call.
No obligation and no pitch. Tell us what is going on and we will tell you plainly what it takes to fix it.