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Our Partnership Standard

Mutual Prosperity,
or No Deal

A partnership only works if it puts more money in your pocket than it takes out. So before we take anyone on, we work out whether what we would build pays for itself. When the honest answer is no, we say so, and we do not take the job.

Our Philosophy

Three Things We Will Not Trade Away

These are the standards we hold to on every engagement, and the reason we turn some work down.

01

Technology You Own

Most software is now sold in a shape that keeps you paying forever. We build the other kind. You hold the keys, your data sits on hardware you control, and nothing we install has to phone home for permission to run.

02

Conversations Over Contracts

When something goes sideways you want someone who picks up the phone and works it out with you, not a vendor reading you a clause. We put the agreement in writing because that is only fair. Then we act like the handshake is the part that counts.

03

The Win-Win Standard

We would rather profit from your growth than from your problems. That shapes the pricing. We do not bill per person, and we do not earn more when your systems break. The work has to pay for itself or we have not done our job.

The People Behind the Work

The People You Will Actually Talk To

Three of us run this, and you will know which one to call.

Ian Palonis
Ian Palonis
CEO · The Vision

Ian keeps the company itself steady. That is the unglamorous work that decides whether we are still here in ten years to pick up your call.

Angel Salmons
Angel Salmons
CXO · The Partnership

Angel is the reason nobody here gets handed a generic package. She takes apart what you pay for now and works out which parts are worth replacing.

Michael Salmons
Michael Salmons
CTO · The Technology

Michael will not patch over something that is broken underneath. He builds on open source so the foundation stays yours, and aims at the failures you would otherwise pay someone to fix twice a year.

Where We Come From

Built in Rumford,
Maine

We are headquartered here, and we live here too.

Our office is in Rumford, not in a data center three states away. If you need to see someone in person, that is a drive, not a support ticket.

A town does better when the businesses in it own what they run on. The money that would leave every month as subscription fees stays here instead. That is a small thing for one business and not a small thing across a county.

"We want independent businesses standing on their own two feet. That is the whole job."

The municipal building in Rumford, Maine, where Viridian Guard is headquartered
Ready to Partner?

Let's See If We're the Right Fit.

The free audit is where we both find out. We will tell you what your current setup costs, what owning it instead would cost, and whether we are the right people for the job. Sometimes the answer to that last one is no.

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