Protect your business
Sleep-at-night security: the gaps found and closed, and fixed-price packages for the things insurers and auditors now demand.
Buffalo · Western New York
Every technology problem your business has.
One accountable partner.
Elevate 716 handles security, systems, automation, AI, and the web for small businesses across Buffalo and Western New York. One senior expert who answers for all of it, for the hours you actually need, without the full-time hire.
You're looking at our work right now. This site runs on the same fast, hardened stack we build for clients.
The problem
You didn't start your business to manage five technology vendors
The website person. The IT guy. The software subscriptions that don't talk to each other. Each one is another login, another invoice, another thing that is somehow your job to coordinate.
A website built by someone who has since moved on
An IT provider you only hear from when something is already broken
Six software subscriptions that never quite agree with each other
A security questionnaire from your insurer that nobody can answer
Social accounts that go quiet whenever the week gets busy
And when something breaks between vendors, everyone points at everyone else
There is a simpler model: one partner, one number, accountable for the whole stack.
Bank-grade standards
These practices were forged inside regulated financial institutions, where security failures aren't an option. We bring that same discipline to your business.
Pay for hours, not a salary
Get seasoned security and technology expertise for the hours you actually need, not a six-figure salary line you don't.
Rooted in the 716
We live and work in Western New York. We know the local market, meet in person, and build long-term relationships, not ticket queues.
What we do
Four jobs. One accountable partner.
Most businesses don't need more vendors. They need one partner who owns the outcome. Every engagement gets the rigor banking demanded, led by the founder from day one.
Run it right
Straight answers about the systems you run on, a technology leader for the hours you need, and the platform your team lives in set up properly.
Automate the busywork
The repetitive computer work, done by software instead of your team: your systems talking to each other, your hours back.
Grow your presence
A website that wins trust and customers, and someone accountable for keeping it fast, secure, and current.
Why Elevate 716
Why one partner works: 20 years inside regulated banks
A single partner only works if that partner has seen everything. Banking is one of the most heavily regulated, heavily attacked industries on earth, and founder Michael McEvoy spent more than 20 years building and defending technology inside it. When you hire Elevate 716, that experience leads every engagement, backed by a trusted network of local security professionals when a project calls for extra hands.
- Programs modeled on FFIEC, NIST CSF, and CIS Controls, scaled sensibly for SMBs
- Fluent in compliance: SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NYS SHIELD Act, and cyber-insurance requirements
- Plain-English guidance that turns risk into decisions you can actually act on
- Vendor-neutral advice: we recommend what fits, not what pays us commission
The right-sized advantage
- A full-time security hire
- $150,000+ a year, plus benefits, whether or not you have a full year of security work to give them
- Elevate 716
- Senior, hands-on expertise for exactly the hours the problem needs
- The difference
- You close real gaps and reinvest the rest back into your business
How we engage
A clear path from first call to lasting partnership
- 01
Listen
A free consultation to understand your business, your worries, and where technology helps or hurts today.
- 02
Assess
A pragmatic review of your security, systems, workflows, or web presence, with findings in plain English.
- 03
Roadmap
A prioritized, budget-aware plan. Quick wins first, structural improvements next, nice-to-haves honestly labeled.
- 04
Execute
We do the work alongside your team, measure what changed, and report it in plain English, quarter after quarter.
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