A slow, noisy, or half-compromised machine is not a personality trait. It is lost hours, leaked credentials, and a team that has learned to work around the tool instead of with it. Most 'IT help' for a small bench is a remote script and a shrug.
Computer optimization here is hands-on care for the machines you actually sit in front of — clean-up, hardening, and tuning so they perform the way they should. Same senior bench as the websites. No ticket queue dressed up as a retainer.
How we engage
- To start
- $3,499
- Then
- $85 / hour
- Plus
- API usage and any cost associated with the work is billed through. We do not mark it up as a surprise line — it is named in the proposal.
- Horizon
- typically 30–75 days
- After
- Website management from $499 / month · Website care & marketing from $1,499 / month
A laptop tune-up does not charge the website engagement retainer again. It bills at the website hourly rate, or sits inside website management.
What a tune-up actually does
We read the machine the way we read a codebase: startup load, leftover software, browser profiles, disk and memory pressure, obvious malware and PUPs, outdated runtimes, and the accounts that should not still be signed in. Then we remove what does not belong, patch what is behind, and leave a written note of what changed.
Hardening is part of the pass, not an upsell. Disk encryption where it is missing, a password manager if there is none, browser and OS update posture, and a short list of the habits that will undo the work in a month.
One-time or ongoing
A laptop tune-up does not charge the website engagement retainer again. It bills at the website hourly rate, or sits inside website management. Periodic check-ins and a person who already knows the machine when something breaks. This is not a helpdesk for thirty people; it is care for the computers a founder or a small team lives on.
If the real problem is the website those machines publish to, that is managed website care. If the real problem is an internal tool that should not live in a spreadsheet, that is Software Development. We will say which.