Our Only Measure of Success: Yours

We worked with the Sea-Level team to streamline our operations, redesign our business units, align our financial reporting, finetune ConnectWise and QuickBooks, train our staff, and position our business for a successful acquisition. I have no doubt that we would not have received the valuation for our business had we not invested in the partnership with Sea-Level. Whether you are looking to position your business for an exit strategy or just improve upon your overall efficiency levels, the team at Sea Level can help you make those necessary improvements. I am very grateful for all the hard work we accomplished through our partnership with Sea-Level and for the friendships formed over the years of working together. I would highly recommend their services mainly due to their years of experience in the IT industry and their deep level of understanding of how a successful MSP business should operate.

The Sea-Level process helped align our management team to specific metrics and operational procedures that resulted in improved efficiencies, improved customer satisfaction and improved net profit.  We tailored the implementation to make it our own.  David, who served as our coach, was fantastic at challenging the team and leading us through discussions to get everyone on the same page.  We then dug into the work of writing better processes and measuring the things that mattered.  The results speak for themselves.  We achieved a consistent 20%+ net EBITDA (previously hovered between 10% and 15%).  Timing being everything, we implemented a majority of these improvements in Q1 of 2020.  Having them in place as the pandemic hit allowed us to thrive and grow in 2020.  The outstanding performance attracted buyers and we sold the business in the spring of 2021 at a very healthy multiple.  I highly endorse Sea-Level to anyone looking to improve their business and their bottom line.

We have been training our Service Manager for over 6 months in the Sea-Level process to help our organization. This week he resigned. This could have been a devastating blow and setback for us if it had not been for Sea-Level. Since my partner and I are fully engaged with creation of process documents and the Service Manager didn’t create the documents alone, we are confident that we can continue the process. We are also very confident that when we hire a new Service Manager he/she will be trained in a much shorter period of time. My partner and I would like to specifically thank our coach Ron Losefsky for his support and guidance as we get our operations on track. We also want to thank the Sea-Level organization for putting together such a logical, turn-key system to improve our operations. We know that we have many more months to go before our full implementation is complete but based on the benefits that we have already received we are extremely excited for the outcome.

I wanted to take a moment to thank Jay, you, and your team for all the help and coaching Jay and Sea-Level have given Hilltop over the past 4 years. We have grown from one city to three cities and tripled our revenue in that time. I don’t think we could have done it without Jay’s help along the way. He kept us focused on process and building an infrastructure that could support us as we grew. Jay knew when to bring in other members of the Sea-Level team, like Parker, when needed and get us over the hump on difficult topics. The Hilltop of 4 years ago would not have been able to manage volume of work or clients we now have.

Todd is an invaluable resource to me. I always feel inspired to accomplish my goals after speaking to him. During this difficult time it is easy to get distracted. I can always count on Todd to help me focus and move forward. Thank you!

Solid Systems has provided technology management services since 2003, we have always taken pride in efficient operations resulting in the high levels of client satisfaction. Choosing Sea-Level as a strategic partner has opened a new world of processes allowing us to become even more efficient with our operations. Not only allowing us to improve client satisfaction but also increase profits.

The Best Investment in the History of the Company.

On behalf of my team and their families and myself, I want to sincerely thank you for the mentorship you’ve given us. A special thank you to Chris. I vividly remember him telling me ‘the best IT companies – those that have the highest valuation – are AYCE’. Then he told me their price ranges per seat. That was my turning point a couple of years ago to aspire to this model.

I’m bringing it up today so many MSPs that are heavily T&M-based are talking about layoffs and other cuts.

During the global pandemic, I’m still anxious every day and none of us are out of the woods yet. I am super grateful for the things Sea-Level has taught me. It’s helped me take care of my clients, my employees, their families and my family during uncertain times. We are trying to share this model with our peers, knowing it will help them through this.

I look forward to our weekly calls and I would hate to think how poorly our ConnectWise implementation would have went without SLO’s guidance! Ken is great and amazing source of information and he does a great job of keeping me sane. Thank you for providing such a service to help us MSP’s that need to know what we don’t know.

Attaining our SOC 2 Type 1 compliance was a big accomplishment for EasyIT. During this multi-month process, we came to really appreciate all the documented processes we have in place. Many of those processes were the result of our engagement with Sea-Level over the last 4 years. I would highly recommend Sea-Level to any managed service provider working to build their operational maturity.

I wanted to reach out though and recognize the help Sea-Level, and you personally, have given to Skycomp over the last year. It has been fantastic to see the change internally, and it has really helped us get a handle on managing our service department. I believe it has been instrumental in helping me step back personally from having to have a large role in our service delivery.

The team at Sea-Level Operations is always there when I need them for help on any issue. The strategic operations plan ensures that we are consistently making progress on our systems development.

The Sea-Level Library of contracts, agreements, procedures, etc. has been invaluable to us, saving us many hours of time trying to put together something that has already been developed.