Data Center · Cloud · AI & Automation · FinOps · Compliance
ElevatedIQ is an advisory practice built on twenty-five years of deeply technical, hands-on experience — starting in the data center, running racks, power, and cabling, and reaching into multi-cloud architecture, applied AI, security, and FinOps. It's a team of senior advisors, not a single consultant — so engagements scale from a focused assessment to a full-scale program, scoped, delivered, and stood behind by the advisors you actually talk to.
NO TICKET QUEUE. NO ACCOUNT HAND-OFFS. ONE ACCOUNTABLE POINT OF CONTACT.
Most clients call with one of three problems already in motion: a cloud bill that keeps climbing, a compliance or audit deadline that will not move, or a technical decision where guessing is expensive.
Applied AI & agents, shipped to production
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, adversarial review
AWS · Azure · GCP migration & operations
Consolidation, storage, disaster recovery
E2E design & build — power, generation, cooling, cabling, tenanting
FIVE ERAS OF INFRASTRUCTURE · TWENTY-FIVE YEARS BEHIND THE PRACTICE
Practice Areas
Most MSPs hand you between departments as a problem crosses domains. Here, the people who scope the work stay accountable through delivery — senior practitioners with decades in the seat, not hand-offs to whoever is next in the queue.
Modernization roadmaps and platform strategy that survive contact with a real budget cycle.
The cost of waiting: the wrong platform or vendor decision compounds for years.
Learn moreAutomation and applied AI that ships to production, not a slide about the future of work.
The cost of waiting: the manual process keeps burning staff time while competitors automate around you.
Learn moreCloud spend treated as an engineering problem, with a budget target set before work begins.
The cost of waiting: every month of ungoverned spend is money you never get back.
Learn moreTwenty-five years end to end — data center design, power & generation, build and tenanting — all the way to the region and availability zone.
The cost of waiting: aging infrastructure keeps costing more while the migration window shrinks.
Learn moreAudit-ready posture built in from the architecture, not bolted on the week before the auditor arrives.
The cost of waiting: a compliance gap can delay the audit — and the deal — that depends on it.
Learn moreTwenty-five years covers more ground than five bullets can. Data platforms, developer experience, technical due diligence, incident-response leadership — if it touches cloud, AI, security, or the automation between them, it's fair game to ask.
Approach
Every engagement — assessment or year-long partnership — moves through the same sequence, so you always know what stage you're in and what "done" looks like.
Stakeholder interviews and a systems inventory. What's actually running, who owns it, and where the risk really lives — not what the architecture diagram claims.
Gap analysis against your actual goals — cost, risk, velocity, or all three — delivered in writing, not a slide deck built to impress a room.
A scoped plan with sequencing, owners, and a defined exit condition. You'll know what "done" looks like before any work starts.
Hands-on build and migration work, done inside your environment, with your team looped in at every step — not disappearing for six weeks.
Tuning, documentation, and a real handoff plan, so the work outlives the engagement instead of quietly decaying six months later.
Engagement Models
Every engagement is scoped and quoted after a short call. These are the four shapes that work usually takes — starting point, not a rate card.
A focused audit of one system, decision, or risk — with a written finding, not a sales pitch for more work.
Best for: a second opinion before a major spend, a board-level question, or pre-acquisition technical diligence.
Fractional CTO-level guidance on tap — architecture review, roadmap input, and a standing technical partner.
Best for: ongoing leadership without the cost or hiring cycle of a full-time senior technical hire.
A cloud migration, automation build-out, or FinOps program with a defined start, finish, and success metric.
Best for: a named initiative that needs senior hands-on delivery, not just advice.
Acting as the technical arm of an internal team through a major initiative, alongside your existing staff.
Best for: teams that need capacity and judgment, not another vendor to manage.
Why Independent
Not every problem needs a large firm, and not every problem is a ticket. Here's the honest structural difference, not a sales pitch.
| ElevatedIQ | Traditional MSP | Big Consultancy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who you work with | Senior practitioners, start to finish | Rotating tier-1/tier-2 help-desk staff | A partner you meet once, then a staffed team |
| Engagement shape | Scoped to the actual problem | Fixed monthly ticket-based tiers | Multi-year statements of work |
| Time to start | Days, after one call | Ticket queue & SLA windows | Procurement & staffing cycles |
| Depth per domain | 25 years of depth, data center to AI, under one roof | Broad but generalist coverage | Deep, but siloed by practice group |
| Best fit | A defined problem that needs a specialist now | Day-to-day help-desk & IT upkeep | Large-scale, multi-year transformation |
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About
ElevatedIQ was founded by Alex Kushnir, whose career began twenty-five years ago in the data center — designing and building facilities end to end: power and generation, cooling, raised floor and cable plant, racking, and tenant build-outs — and living the full digital footprint hands-on long before "cloud" was the default answer. That ground-up foundation still shapes how the practice works: every architecture decision eventually becomes a physical constraint somewhere, and it helps to have stood in the room where that's obvious.
ElevatedIQ exists because most organizations don't need a bigger vendor — they need senior advisors who have actually carried the pager, on-prem and in the cloud, and who will tell them the truth about what's broken before selling them the fix.
Because it's a team rather than a single name on the door, engagements are sized to the problem — a two-week assessment, or a multi-month program that would swamp one consultant. And the scope runs wider than the five practice areas: data platforms, developer experience, technical due diligence, incident-response leadership. If it touches infrastructure — from the rack to the region to the model — it's fair game to ask about on a call.
Talk to the teamTrack Record
ElevatedIQ is a new practice built on twenty-five years of prior work — which means named case studies are still being written, on purpose, once clients are public. In the meantime, here's the shape of the work currently underway.
A two-week spend audit across AWS surfaced idle reserved capacity and mis-sized compute; findings handed to the internal platform team against a fixed budget target.
Gap assessment against SOC 2 Type I controls, a prioritized remediation list, and an evidence-collection pipeline the team now runs on its own.
Replaced a manual weekly reporting process with a scheduled pipeline, cutting a two-day task down to under an hour.
Assessed two aging on-prem facilities, designed a phased colocation and cloud-migration path, and cut the rack footprint before the first server moved.
References from engagements like these are available on request during a scoping call.
FAQ
Anywhere from funded startups needing fractional technical leadership to mid-market and enterprise teams — and because ElevatedIQ is a team of senior advisors rather than a single consultant, larger programs are on the table too, not just defined side-problems. The engagement model changes; the standard of work doesn't.
Remote-first by default, with on-site available for kickoffs, audits, or executive workshops where it materially helps.
Primarily AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus the automation and infrastructure-as-code tooling built on top of them — Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and similar. If your stack is unusual, ask; twenty-five years covers more ground than five bullet points can show.
Most engagements begin with a paid Strategic Assessment within one to two weeks of the initial call, so scope and pricing are clear before any larger commitment.
A traditional MSP staffs your ticket queue. ElevatedIQ is a senior advisory practice where the practitioners who scope the work stay accountable for outcomes — closer to embedded technical leadership than a help desk.
One call to scope it. No account managers, no hand-offs, no ticket queue in between.