Industry guide

Managed IT diligence for engineering & architecture firms.

Firms hold stamped drawings, client intellectual property, and project archives with long retention lives. The work product is the asset: losing a project archive is losing the firm's memory, and client IP under NDA makes the firm's security posture part of every proposal.

What binds you

The frameworks

State licensing board rulesThe frameworkProfessional-practice and record duties for licensed engineers and architects.
Client NDA obligationsThe frameworkContractual security duties attached to client intellectual property.

The industry question

What is the tested restore story for the full project archive, decades included?

It belongs on the checklist, in writing, next to the other 18.

The method

The bench, applied

Observe

The tactics

Lock-in contracts, stripped quotes, and exit traps, documented in the industry's own words with checkable sources.

See the tacticsAdapt

The standard

Fourteen marks of a fair managed IT agreement, stated plainly and provider-neutral.

See the standardProtect

The benchmark

The four-step method and the 18 questions to ask in writing, with a printable checklist.

Use the benchmark

Your state

Engineering & Architecture Firms, state by state

The same diligence with your state's verification layer: the breach statute, the entity search, the regulator.

Choose your state

Educational reference, not legal advice. Frameworks are summarized at the framework level; confirm specifics for your situation with counsel or the primary source.