For small businesses

Enterprise-grade security leadership, at your size.

The big customer sent a security questionnaire. The insurer wants proof of multi-factor authentication. A competitor got hit. You cannot justify a full-time CISO and you should not have to. ForEffect gives a small business a part-time executive who has answered those questions inside public companies — and prices to the size of the company, not the size of the risk.

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Typical size5–200 employees, one IT person or an MSP

Asked forSOC 2 · vendor questionnaires · cyber-insurance

Tools we work inGoogle Workspace · Microsoft 365 · QuickBooks · Jobber · Salesforce

Start withAn audit, or a retainer sized to you

What we hear

The three calls that start most engagements.

Heard often

“Our biggest customer wants SOC 2.”

We build the control set, produce the evidence, and manage the auditor relationship — and answer the questionnaires that arrive before the report does.

Heard often

“The insurer will not renew without MFA and backups.”

We fix what is missing, verify what exists, and hand the broker a completed application that will not be bounced.

Heard often

“We want to use AI but we handle customer data.”

A policy, an inventory, and governed workflows — so sales, service, and back-office get the benefit without the exposure.

From a client

Security leadership at startup-friendly terms.

“As an early-stage company, we couldn’t justify a full-time security hire, but we still had enterprise customers asking hard questions.”

Tristan ReesCo-Founder & COO, Code Lexica

Code Lexica needed a security executive who could face enterprise procurement teams without the cost of a full-time hire. ForEffect serves as the company’s fractional CISO: the questionnaire answers, the policies behind them, and a named executive the customer can talk to.

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Services for small businesses

Start where the pressure is.

Ongoing

Fractional CISO

Security strategy, risk register, compliance, incident leadership — a few days a month.

Fractional CISO →Ongoing

Fractional CIO

Technology roadmap, budget, vendor and MSP oversight, board reporting.

Fractional CIO →30 days

AI Readiness & Security Audit

A fixed-scope assessment that ends in a prioritized roadmap your board can read.

The audit →Project

Strategic Implementation

Governed AI workflows, security program build-outs, automation on the tools you own.

Implementation →

Questions we hear

Frequently asked

We have twelve employees. Do we really need a CISO?

You need someone accountable for security decisions; the question is how much of that person. A fractional CISO gives a twelve-person company a few days a month of executive judgment — enough to answer customers and insurers truthfully and keep the MSP honest.

Can you get us SOC 2?

We build the control set and evidence, prepare the organization, and manage the audit. We do not issue the report — an independent CPA firm does — but we make sure you are ready for it.

Do you work with our industry tools?

We work in whatever you already own: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks, Jobber, Salesforce, and the rest. We do not add software to your stack.

One call, no deck

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what keeps you up at night. We read and reply to every note — usually within one business day — and the first conversation is about your organization, not our services.

info@foreffectai.comMill Creek, WA · Remote-first

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