For CPAs, brokers, attorneys and advisors

Partner with Slyder Consulting Group.

Your clients ask you who to trust with their IT, their security and the questions on their cyber-insurance renewal. Give them one local answer. We're a Medina-based technology partner for small and mid-sized businesses in Medina, Summit, Stark and Cuyahoga counties. You introduce the client, we do the IT work, and the client stays yours.

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Who it's for

Advisors whose small-business clients run on technology but don't have an IT department. If your clients ask you "who do you use for IT?", this is for you.

CPAs and accounting firms

Clients who ask who to trust with their systems, and tax preparers who need a written information security plan.

Insurance brokers and agents

Commercial lines, cyber cover above all: clients who can't answer the security questions on their application or renewal.

Business attorneys

Business, employment and estate-planning firms whose clients hold confidential data and need a security program they can point to.

Bookkeepers

You often see the payment fraud, the shared passwords and the one laptop that holds everything before anyone else does.

HR and benefits consultants

Clients holding employee records, onboarding and offboarding staff, and setting up accounts and devices for new hires.

Other trusted advisors

Financial advisors, business coaches, bankers and anyone else a small-business owner calls first. Ask us.

Why refer us

When a client's email is taken over, a fake invoice gets paid or a renewal stalls on the security questions, the first call often goes to their advisor. A good IT partner keeps those calls from happening.

Their risk reflects on you

You recommend people your clients can trust. We're plain about what we do and what we don't, we write the scope and the price down before any work starts, and we don't sell what a client doesn't need.

Cyber-insurance renewals

Applications and renewals ask clients to confirm specific controls: multi-factor sign-in, EDR, backups, a response plan. A "no" can raise the premium or add an exclusion. Our readiness checklist covers the ten controls insurers ask about most, and we help clients put them in place and document them.

Compliance your clients already face

Tax preparers: the FTC Safeguards Rule and IRS Publication 4557 call for a written information security plan. We help them write it and put the controls behind it.
Medical and dental practices: security controls built to support HIPAA.
Law firms and their clients: confidentiality, and Ohio's Data Protection Act, which gives a business with a written cybersecurity program that follows a recognized framework a defense in a data-breach lawsuit.

We help clients prepare; their own counsel confirms what a rule requires of them, and audits are done by independent assessors.

One local partner, plain terms

Managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud and technology strategy from one firm in Medina, for businesses from one user up. A flat monthly invoice, a 12-month term and then month-to-month with 30 days' notice. No multi-year contract. See pricing.

How it works

Four steps, and the client stays yours.

No paperwork to join. Introduce someone, and we take it from there.

Any time

You introduce

Copy us on an email to your client, or ask them to book a call and mention your name. A one-line intro is enough.

20 minutes, free

A first conversation

We talk with your client about where they stand and what they need. No sales pitch. If we're not the right fit, we say so.

With the client's OK

We keep you informed

You hear whether we're working together and when the work you'd care about is done, such as the renewal controls. Nothing more than your client agrees to.

Always

The client stays yours

We do the IT. Tax, insurance, legal and HR questions go back to you, and we'll tell the client to ask you.

What partners get

The program is about looking after the people you send us, and making you look good for sending them.

A named contact

Mark Slyder, our founder and principal, is your contact: 25+ years in IT, including CTO and Divisional CIO roles. One person who knows which clients came from you.

Checklists to hand your clients

The one-page cyber-insurance readiness checklist, printable and free to share, and co-branded with your firm's name on request.

Joint client workshops

A short session for your clients, at your office or online: what insurers ask about, how payment fraud works, and what a small business should fix first.

Priority response for your clients

An introduction from a partner goes to the front of the queue. We reply within one business day.

No referral fees. The program involves no payment for referrals unless it is agreed in writing. Some professions, accountants and attorneys among them, have their own rules on referral fees, so we keep it simple: the value is mutual, and it comes from your clients being well looked after.

Introduce a client

Two ways, whichever suits you and your client.

Send an introduction email

Email us and copy your client. The link below opens a short draft you can edit. We reply to both of you within one business day.

Email an introduction

Have them book a call

Send your client to our contact page for a free 20-minute call, and ask them to mention your name in the message so we know who to thank.

Book a 20-minute call

Want to talk about partnering first? Book a call, email hello@slyderconsultinggroup.com or call (877) 759-3379.

Common questions

No. The program involves no payment for referrals unless it is agreed in writing. Some professions have their own rules on referral fees, and we would rather earn introductions by looking after the clients you send us.

No. We do IT, cybersecurity, cloud and technology strategy. We don't do tax, insurance, legal or HR work, and when one of those questions comes up we send the client back to you.

That's fine. The first conversation is about where they stand, not about criticising anyone. If a change makes sense, we run an overlap with the current provider so nothing breaks, and if it doesn't, we say so.

No. We're based in Medina and Northeast Ohio is our home market, but our delivery is remote-first, so we support clients across North America. Across Medina, Summit, Stark and Cuyahoga counties we add on-site support when it's needed.

Have a client who needs IT help?

One email is enough. We'll take it from there and keep you in the loop.

Introduce a client Become a partner