Company

IT and business consulting for the Gulf Coast.

Catalyst Group was founded in Foley, Alabama in 2021. We run help desks, wire buildings, watch systems around the clock, and advise owners on what to buy, what to build and what to skip.

Our mission

Give Gulf Coast businesses the IT department, the security practice and the trusted advisor they would hire if they could, at a price a twenty-person company can carry.

What we believe

  • Plain language beats enterprise theater.
  • You own your documentation and your data, always.
  • A person answers, and the same person fixes it.
  • Nothing changes on a live system until it has worked on a copy.

How we work

Four habits that show up in every engagement.

We say what we thinkIf you do not need to buy something, we tell you. If a vendor is overcharging you, we tell you that too.
We write it downDiagrams, passwords in a vault, runbooks and inventory live in your portal. If you ever leave, you leave with everything.
We test firstOur own software goes test, staging, production. So do your changes.
We use what we sellOur help desk, monitoring and CRM run on the same tools we offer you, so they get fixed the day something bothers us.

Experience

Enterprise discipline, small-business scale.

Our leadership has spent twenty years in IT. The first decade was hands-on support for small businesses, medical and law offices. The years since have been spent as an infrastructure architect and DevOps engineer on enterprise platforms with thousands of servers, and running a technology company with a fifteen-person development team.

We bring that discipline to businesses with five to a hundred and fifty staff: the same security, the same testing, the same documentation, sized and priced for you.

Credentials

  • Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate
  • Google Project Management Certificate
  • Enterprise infrastructure architecture and DevOps engineering
  • Security operations and incident response, aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Community

Part of the Gulf Coast, not just selling to it.

Our founder has volunteered as director of IT and security for a recovery foundation since 2018, and serves as a senior firefighter and instructor. We work on site across Baldwin and Mobile counties and the Florida panhandle, and remotely anywhere.

Tools we built along the way

Built for our own work first. Clients can run on them too.

CRM-NG

The CRM and client portal we run our business on, hosted for you or installed on your site.

InfraGuard

Our 24/7 monitoring platform, included in every service plan.

Talk to the people who will do the work.

There is no sales team. The person on the first call is the person who assesses, plans and answers the tickets.

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