Northgate
Serving Ontario's mid-market since 2013

Still Guessing Where Your IT Budget Should Go Next Year?

Northgate maps the gaps, writes the plan, and stays until you've hired the right people to run it. That's it.

No retainers. No bloated SOWs. Just the work your team actually needs.

143 projects delivered across Ontario
91% of clients return within 18 months
19 consultants — same team since 2019
11 wk average engagement length
What We Solve

Four problems, four engagements. Nothing else.

Your cloud spend is climbing and nobody can explain why.

We pull apart every line of your cloud invoices — compute, storage, licensing, the lot. Then we cross-reference that against what your team actually uses. Most clients see up to 30% in recoverable spend once we've finished the vendor contract analysis and right-sizing report.

Your security posture has gaps you haven't mapped yet.

We run a threat assessment against your actual environment — not a checklist from the internet. You get a prioritised findings report and a compliance readiness plan, written so your board can read it too.

You're hiring IT leadership but don't know what the role should look like.

This happens more than you'd think. A company outgrows its IT setup, knows it needs a director or VP, but the job spec is a blank page. We design the org structure first — actually, that's backwards. We audit what exists, then design the structure around it. From there:

  • •Role spec with clear KPIs and reporting lines
  • •Interview framework your HR team can run on their own
  • •90-day onboarding plan so the new hire doesn't walk into chaos

Your infrastructure decisions are three years old and nobody's revisited them.

Three years is a long time. We audit every layer — network, compute, storage, backup, disaster recovery — and deliver a modernisation roadmap with costed options. Not a sales pitch for one vendor. A plan your team can actually follow.

The Difference

What changes after we leave

Without a plan:

  • IT budget built on last year's numbers plus 10% — every year
  • Reactive fixes that cost three times what planned maintenance would
  • Vendor lock-in you don't notice until the renewal quote arrives
  • Compliance audits that scramble the whole team for weeks
  • No documentation, so when someone leaves, the knowledge walks out too

After Northgate:

  • A 12-month roadmap tied to actual business milestones
  • Prioritised spend — you know what to fund first, second, and what to skip
  • Vendor-neutral recommendations, so your next decision is yours
  • Compliance-ready documentation that survives staff turnover
  • A team that can operate without calling us back (though 91% do anyway)
From the Field

Case Study

230-person logistics company, Mississauga

The situation: Three legacy systems running the warehouse, the dispatch, and the back office. No documentation for any of them. And a security audit landing in 60 days. The IT manager — one person, by the way — was drowning.

What we did: Eight-week engagement. Two of our consultants on-site, the rest remote. We mapped every system, documented dependencies and data flows, and closed 14 audit findings before the deadline. Honestly, we didn't expect to find that many.

Annual IT budget: $1.8M

$340K in redundant licensing identified
Zero critical findings in the audit
Full system documentation — a first for them
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